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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
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en. Richard Taylors Command,Gunboat Diana. Losses: Union, 89killed, 458 wounded, 30 missing; Con-fed.* 12 to May 4.—Siege of Suffolk, Va. Union,Troops of the Army of Virginia andDe;)artment of North Carolina; Con-fed.. Gen. James Long-streets Com-mand. Losses: Union, 44 killed, 202wounded; Confed., 500 killed andwounded, 400 captured. 17 to May 2.—Griersons expedition fromLa Grange, Tenn., to Baton Rouge, La.Union, 6th and 7th 111. Cav., 2d IowaCav.; Confed., detachments of Cav. andHome Guards. Losses: Union, 3 killed,7 wounded, 9 missing; Confed., 100killed and wounded, I6OO captured (es-tiuiatcd). 26.—Cape Girardeau, Mo. Union, 32d Iowa,Isl Wis. Cav., 2d Mo. Cav., Batteries Dand L 1st Mo. Lt. Artil.; Confed.,Marmadukes Cav. Losses: Union, 6killed, 6 wounded; Confed., 60 killed,275 wounded and missing. 27 to May 3.—Strcights Raid, Tuseumbia,Ala., to Rome, Ga., including skirmishesat Days Gap, April 30th; Black War-rior Creek, May 1, and Blounts Farm, * No record found.(332) I
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SUMTER Searching all history for a parallel, if is imjiossihle to find any defenses of a beleaguered city that stood sosevere a bombardment as did this bravely defended and never conquered fortress of Sumter, in CharlestonHarbor. It is estimated that about eighty thousand projectiles were iHseharged from the fleet and themarsh batteries, and yet Charleston, with its battered water-front, was not abandoned until all other Con-federate positions along the Atlantic Coast were in Federal hands and Shermans triumphant army wassweeping in from the West and South. The picture shows Sumter from the Confederate Fort Johnson.The powerful batteries in the foreground played havoc with the Federal fleet whenever it came down themain ship-channel to engage the forts. Protected by almost impassable swamps, mora.sses, and a networkof creeks to the eastward, Fort Johnson held an almost impregnable position; and from its protection byCummings Point, on which was Battery (iregg, the Federal fleet could
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