. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . ANOTHER VOICELESS GUN. (Confederate ramparts southeast ofYorktown.) A 32-pounder Navy gun which had been burst, wreckingits embrasure. The Federal soldier seated on the sand-bags is on guard-dutyto prevent camp-followers from looting the vacant fort. THE MISSING RIFLE. (Extensive sand-bag fortifications of the Con-federates at Yorktown.) The shells and carriage were left behind by theConfederates, but the rifled gun to which they belonged was taken alongin t
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . ANOTHER VOICELESS GUN. (Confederate ramparts southeast ofYorktown.) A 32-pounder Navy gun which had been burst, wreckingits embrasure. The Federal soldier seated on the sand-bags is on guard-dutyto prevent camp-followers from looting the vacant fort. THE MISSING RIFLE. (Extensive sand-bag fortifications of the Con-federates at Yorktown.) The shells and carriage were left behind by theConfederates, but the rifled gun to which they belonged was taken alongin the retreat. Such pieces as they could not remove they GUNS THE UNION LOST AND RECOVERED. (A two-gun Confed-erate battery in the entrenchments south of Yorktown.) The near gunis a 32-pounder navy; the far one, a 24-pounder siege-piece. More than3,000 pieces of naval ordnance fell into the hands of the Confederatesearly in the war, through the ill-advised and hasty abandonment ofNorfolk Navy Yard by the Federals. Many of these guns did serviceat Yorktown and subsequently on the James River against the Union. THE CONFEDERATE COMMAND OF THE RIVER. (BatteryMagruder, Yorktown.) Looking north up the river, four of the fiveS-inch Columbiads composing this section of the battery are visible. Thegrape-shot and spherical shells, which had been gathered in quantities toprevent the Federal fleet from passing up the river, were abandoned on thehasty retreat of the Confederates, the guns being spiked. The vessels inthe river are transport ships, with the exception of the frigate just offshore. %rk the adjacent highlands, thus forming a screen from eith
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