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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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WUKK OF THE Kx\GL\EEKS AND THE CAV.\LRY Copyright by Renew of Rev^ The great Civil War first introduced tlie railroad as a strategic factor in military operations. In the upper picture we see theFederal engineers at Vibbard Draw on Long Bridge at Washington busily at work rehabilitating a locomotive for use along the railroadconnections of the capital with its army. Extemporized wooden structures of that time seem paltry in comparison with the greatsteel cranes and derricks which our modern wrecking trains have made familiar. The railroads in control of the North were muchbetter equipped and guarded than those of the South, yet the bold Confederate Cavalry, under such leaders as Stuart, were ever readyfor raids to cut communirntions. How thoroughly they did their work whenever they got the chance, the lower picture tells.

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