Image: The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14762570132)

Description: Identifier: photographichist02mill (find matches) 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: IN THE BELEAGUERED CITY In the parlor of this little dwelling sat Ulysses S. Grant on the evening of October 23, 1863. Mucl.lv and rain-soaked f ro.n his long ridehe was gravely eonsulting with General Thomas and his officers. The .\rmy of the Cumberland was in a serious predicament, summedup by Thomas reply to Grants first order from Nashville: We will hold the town till wc starve. Grant had starved a Confederatearmy out of ^ icksburg; and now Braggs army, recnforccd by troops from Johnston, harl settled down before Chattanooga to starve out,m turn, what was then the most important Federal force in the West. Strongly posted on Missionarv Ridge and Lookout Mountainand m Chattanooga \ alley to the south and southeast of the town, Bragg controlled the railroad, making it impossible for supplies tocome over it from Bridgeport. Ala. Everything had to be brought into Chattanooga by wagon-trains over a roundabout route of nearly i Text Appearing After Image: HKml, lyll, na.¥IC.W Of NKVic HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL THOMAS AT CHATTANOOGA tliirty miles. The passage of «agun.s over Ihc roads was difficult even in good weather, and they were rapi.lly Ix-cominp impas.«.ble fromthe autumn rains. Rraggs forces had fallen upon an.l burned some three hundred Federal wagons, and with those tl.al wcr.- left >t wasimpossible to bring in more than the scantiest supplies. The men had been for weeks on halt-rations; all the artillery horsc-s had sUrvedto death- an occasional hcr.l of beef <attle was .Iriven .lown fron. Nash^■ill.• through the denuded country and upon arrival would beaptly characterized by the soldiers as beef dried on the hoof. This and hard bread were their only sustenance. Grant, now m com-mand of all the Federal forces from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, was first confronted by the nece.s.sity of haslcnmg the ,1, hvery ofsupplies. Either the .\rmy of the Cumberland must be fed or Bragg would regain the ground that ha.l Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14762570132)
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