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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ed River, a detour of four hundred miles. Another plan was to cut a channel through the peninsulaof the great bend of the Mississippi, opposite Vicksburg. Forsix weeks, thousands of men worked like marmots diggingthis ditch; but, meantime, the river was rising and, on March8th, it broke over the embankment and the men had to run fortheir lives. Many horses were drowned and a great numberof implements submerged. The Father of Waters had puta decisive veto on the project and it had to be given up. Stillanother plan that failed was to cut through the Vazoo Passand approach from the north by way of the Coldwater, theTallahatchie, and the Vazoo rivers. Failure with Grant only increased his grim determination.lie would take Vicksburg. His next plan was destined tobring success. It was to transfer his army by land downthe west bank of the Mississippi to a point below the cityand approach it from the south and west. This necessitatedthe running of the batteries by Porters fleet—an extremely
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INVESTING BY INCHES Logans Division undermining the most formidable redoubt in the defenses of Vicksburg. The positionwas immediately in front of this honeycombed slope on the Jackson road. Upon these troops fell mostof the labor of sapping and mining, which finally resulted in the wrecking of the fort so gallantly de-fended by the veterans of the Third Louisiana. As the Federal lines crept up, the men working nightand day were forced to live in burrows. They became proficient in such gopher work as the picture shows.Up to the White House (Shirleys) the troops could be marched in comparative safety, but a short dis-tance beyond they were exposed to the Confederate sharpshooters, who had only rifles and muskets todepend on; their artillery had long since been silenced. Near this house was constructed CoonskinVTower; it was built of railway iron and cross-ties under the direction of Second Lieutenant Henry C. Foster,of Company B, Twenty-third Indiana. A backwoodsman and dead-shot, he wa

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