. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . across the Savannah Riverinto the Carolinas. The stream had been spanned by an im-provised pontoon bridge, consisting of river-boats, with planksfrom city wharves for flooring and with old car-wheels foranchors. Sherman immediately took possession of the city,and on December 22d he sent to President Lincoln this mes-sage: I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the cityof Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plentyof ammunition, and also
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . across the Savannah Riverinto the Carolinas. The stream had been spanned by an im-provised pontoon bridge, consisting of river-boats, with planksfrom city wharves for flooring and with old car-wheels foranchors. Sherman immediately took possession of the city,and on December 22d he sent to President Lincoln this mes-sage: I beg to present to you, as a Christmas gift, the cityof Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plentyof ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales ofcotton. As a matter of fact, over two hundred and fifty gunswere captured, and thirty-one thousand bales of cotton. Gen-eral Hardee retreated to Charleston. Events in the West now changed Grants views as toShermans joining him immediately in Virginia. On the 16thof December, General Thomas accomplished the defeat andutter rout of Hoods army at Nashville. In addition, it wasfound that, owing to lack of transports, it would take at leasttwo months to transfer Shermans whole army by sea. There- IPP. THE SPOILS OF VICTORY THE TROOPS THAT MARCHED TO THE SEABECOME DAY-LABORERS Here are the men that marched to the seadoing their turn as day-laborers, gleefully trun-dling their wheelbarrows, gatheringup everythingof value in Fort McAllister to swell the size ofShermans Christmas present. Brigadier-General YV. B. Hazen, after his men had suc-cessfully stormed the stubbornly defended fort,reported the capture of twenty-four pieces cfordnance, with their equipment, forty tons ofammunition, a months supply of food for thegarrison, and the small arms of the the upper picture the army engineers arebusily at work removing a great 48-pounder8-inch Columbiad that had so long repelled theFederal fleet. There is always work enough andto spare for the engineers both before and afterthe capture of a fortified position. In the wheel-barrows is a harvest
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