Identifier: civilwarthroughc00elso (find matches)
Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ram Tennessee overwhelmed, but FortMorgan, protecting the city, was bombarded by a fleet that carriedmore power for destruction than the combined English, French andSpanish fleets at Trafalgar. That the battle was not easily won isshown by the record of casualties, which was fifty-two killed and onehundred and seventy wounded in the Federal fleet and twelve killedand twenty wounded on the Confederate gunboats. The War Time Photographs HereReproduced Show the men of both armies as they appeared during the Wildernesscampaign. The headquarters of the Union Army, the country overwhich it fought, the army fences and other protection on the battlefielditself are vividly illustrated. Photographs from the West illustratethe Red River Dam which saved the Federal Fleet imprisoned by lowwater until released by a famous engineering project. Photographsare also shown of the Hartford after the victory of Mobile Bay andof the Ter.nessee, the Confederate ironclad ram, which surrenderedat this battle.
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THE BATTLE IN THE WILDERNESS I The volunteers who composed the armies of the Potomac and North-ern Virginia were real soldiers now, inured to war, and desperate in theirdetermination to do its work without faltering or failure. This fact—this change in the temper and morale of the men on either side—hadgreatly simplified the tasks set for Grant and Lee to solve. They knewtheir men. They knew that those men would stand against anything,endure slaughter without flinching, hardship without complaining, andmake desperate endeavor without shrinking. The two armies had becomewhat they had not been earlier in the contest, perfect instruments of rear,that could be relied upon as confidently as the machinist relies upon hisengine scheduled to make so many revolutions per minute at a given rateof horse-power, and with the precision of science itself.—George CaryEggleston, in The History of the Confederate War.- AFTER the battle of Gettysburg, Lee started for thePotomac, which he crossed w

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