. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . GENERAL U. S. GRANT AND STAFF AT CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, IN AUGUST, 1864 WHILE the combined armies under Sherman lay in and around Atlanta until Octo-ber, 1864, the war photographers were used extensively. Fierce encounters tookplace early in that month around Kenesaw Mountain and along Allatoona this famous encounter Sherman stood on the top of Kenesaw. General Corse, whowas leading the Union Division into combat, sent him this message: I am short a cheek-bone and one ear, but am able to whi
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . GENERAL U. S. GRANT AND STAFF AT CITY POINT, VIRGINIA, IN AUGUST, 1864 WHILE the combined armies under Sherman lay in and around Atlanta until Octo-ber, 1864, the war photographers were used extensively. Fierce encounters tookplace early in that month around Kenesaw Mountain and along Allatoona this famous encounter Sherman stood on the top of Kenesaw. General Corse, whowas leading the Union Division into combat, sent him this message: I am short a cheek-bone and one ear, but am able to whip all hell yet. It was to this that Sherman made hisfamous reply: Hold the fort, for I am coming. Sherman began his famous march to thesea on the fifteenth of November. As the columns left Atlanta the Federal engineers appliedtheir torches to the depot, roundhouse, and the machine shops of the Georgia railroad. Thecolumns extended to the northern part of the city. Stores, warehouses, hotels, and mills,with many private dwellings, were destroyed to the value of more than three millions of
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