. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE BOATS THAT BROUGHT MEDICAL SUPPLIES—APPOMATTOX RIVER, 1861 The upper photograph was taken about a mile above City Point. The supply-boat Planter, a familiar sight to Boldiers, is lying at alittle pier formed by a section of a pontoon-bridge. The lower left-hand photograph shows the Planter and more of the fleet in theservice of the medical department. At the lower right-hand can be seen the steamer Connecticut, considered a crack boat in LongIsland Sound navigatio
. The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE BOATS THAT BROUGHT MEDICAL SUPPLIES—APPOMATTOX RIVER, 1861 The upper photograph was taken about a mile above City Point. The supply-boat Planter, a familiar sight to Boldiers, is lying at alittle pier formed by a section of a pontoon-bridge. The lower left-hand photograph shows the Planter and more of the fleet in theservice of the medical department. At the lower right-hand can be seen the steamer Connecticut, considered a crack boat in LongIsland Sound navigation preceding the war. During part of the war she was used as an army transport on account of her quantities of supplies were shipped to the armies investing Petersburg, and the sight of these vessels gladdened the eyes ofmany a poor fellow in desperate need of what they brought, or waiting to be transported to the big hospitals or furloughed home.
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