Image: The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14762615992)

Description: Identifier: photographichist05mill (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: ' Text Appearing After Image: COPRiGhT. REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. SOLDIERS HV THE TITER PONTOON BIUDOE AT DEEP BOTTOM JAMES RIVER, lH(i;. To construct a pontoon bridge the first boat launched was rowedup-stream a short distance. The anchor was let go. Us rope wasthen paid out sufficiently to drop the boat down into position.A second anchor was dropped a short distance down-stream, if thecurrent proved irregular.The second boat was placedin position by the same proc-ess. Then the sills of thebridge, called balk. couldbe placed across by floatingthe second boat alongsidethe first, placing the endsof the balk, usually five innumber, across the gunwale.and then shoving the boalinto position by pushing onthe inner cuds of the balk.These ends had heavy cleatsso that they could be en-gaged over the further gun-wale of each boat. The 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) (14762615992)
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