. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . DUTCH GAP CANAL ENTERING JAMES RIVER IN VIRGINIA BUILT UNDER SEVERE FIRE. OBSTRUCTIONS IN JAMES RIVER NEAR DREWRY S BLUFF CONFEDERATE FORT DARLING AT DREWRY S BLUFF AIKEN S LANDING, WHERE PRISONERS WERE EXCHANGED WHILE Grant was movingtoward Richmond fromthe north, Butler wasforcing his way fromVorktown on the south, threateningRichmond from the peninsula asMcClellan had done two years be-fcre. It was at this time that thephotographs here shown were takenin May, 1864. Butler succeeded indestroying part
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . DUTCH GAP CANAL ENTERING JAMES RIVER IN VIRGINIA BUILT UNDER SEVERE FIRE. OBSTRUCTIONS IN JAMES RIVER NEAR DREWRY S BLUFF CONFEDERATE FORT DARLING AT DREWRY S BLUFF AIKEN S LANDING, WHERE PRISONERS WERE EXCHANGED WHILE Grant was movingtoward Richmond fromthe north, Butler wasforcing his way fromVorktown on the south, threateningRichmond from the peninsula asMcClellan had done two years be-fcre. It was at this time that thephotographs here shown were takenin May, 1864. Butler succeeded indestroying part of the road fromPetersburg to Richmond. He re-ceived word that Lee was in full re-treat for Richmond, witli Grant closeupon his heels. One of the extremesouthern positions in the defense ofRichmond was Fort Darling atDrewrys Bluff. On the thirteenthof May, Butler succeeded in carryinga portion of the outer lines, captur-ing a considerable amount of artillery,but on the sixteenth he was repulsedand fell back upon Bermuda Hun-dred. A powerful Confederate bat-tery on the James River barred thebridge toward Richmond. Butlerconceived the idea of cutting a canalthr
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