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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WHERE LINCOLN WAS UNDER FIRE This is Fort Stevens (originally known as Fort Massachusetts), north of Washington, near the SoldiersHome, where President Lincoln had his summer residence. It was to this outpost that Earlys troopsadvanced on July 12, 186-1. In the fighting of that day Lincoln himself stood on the ramparts, and asurgeon who stood by his side was wounded. These works were feebly garrisoned, and General Gordondeclared in his memoirs that when the Confederate troops reached Fort Stevens they found it untenanted.This photograph was taken after the occupation of the fort by Company F of the Third MassachusettsArtillery. lie IGast (Emtfltrts in tip ^luntanunalt •$■ Oct.1864 some time the two armies lay watching each other. The Fed-erals were having difficulty in holding their lines of supply. With the Valley practically given up by Early. Sheridanwas anxious to stop here. He wrote to Grant, I think thebest policy will be to let the burning of the crops in the Valleybe the e

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