. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT. 9!1, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE MAN WHO REMEMBERED and sliell-fire. It was not long before Battery D was advanced from the position shown above to that held by the Confederates onthe i\&\. of June, and there Fort Morton was erected, and beyond the line of woods the historic Fort Stedman, the scene of some ofthe bloodiest fighting before Petersburg. If you look closely at the second photograph, you will perceive a man in civilian clothes;Lieutenant Garilner (standing just back of the man with the haversack) thinks that thi
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPYRIGHT. 9!1, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE MAN WHO REMEMBERED and sliell-fire. It was not long before Battery D was advanced from the position shown above to that held by the Confederates onthe i\&\. of June, and there Fort Morton was erected, and beyond the line of woods the historic Fort Stedman, the scene of some ofthe bloodiest fighting before Petersburg. If you look closely at the second photograph, you will perceive a man in civilian clothes;Lieutenant Garilner (standing just back of the man with the haversack) thinks that this is Mr. Brady himself. There are fifteenpeople in this picture whom Lieutenant (iardner, of this battery, recognized after a lapse of forty-six years and can recall by may be more gallant Pennsylvanians who, on studying this photograph, will sec themselves and their comrades, surviving anddead, as once they fought on the WHERE IS GRANT?This heavy Federal battery looks straight across the low-lying country to Petersburg. Its spires show in the distance. The smilingcountry is now to be a field of blood and suffering. For Grants army, unperceived, has swung around from Cold Harbor, and theConfederate cause was lost when Grant crossed the James, declared the Southern General Ewell. It was a mighty and a masterfulmove, practicable only because of the tremendous advantages the Federals held in the undisputed possession of the waterways, thetremendous fleet of steamers, barges, and river craft that made a change of base and transportation easy. Petersburg became theobjective of the great army under Grant. His movements to get there had not been heralded; they worked like well-oiled machinery. Where is Grant. frantically asked Beauregard of Lee. The latter, by his despatches, shows that he could not answer with anycertainty. In fact, up to the evening of the 13th of June, when the Second Corps, the advance of
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