. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . TWO HEA\^ CONFEDERATE SIEGE GUNS NORTH OF DUTCH GAP CANAL. With till- possilili- rxci-pliiiii (if Charlcstciiiat tlu seaside, Richmond was the Ijrst-defended city in the Confederacy. Vieks-burg proved long and difficult of caiiluicon account of the natural formation of theland, and Petersburg lay behind an armyentrenched; but the series of Confederatebatteries along the James River, up whichthe Union army and navy were trying toadvance, rendered the stream impassableto the navy and the city above impreg-nable against the army. Thes
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . TWO HEA\^ CONFEDERATE SIEGE GUNS NORTH OF DUTCH GAP CANAL. With till- possilili- rxci-pliiiii (if Charlcstciiiat tlu seaside, Richmond was the Ijrst-defended city in the Confederacy. Vieks-burg proved long and difficult of caiiluicon account of the natural formation of theland, and Petersburg lay behind an armyentrenched; but the series of Confederatebatteries along the James River, up whichthe Union army and navy were trying toadvance, rendered the stream impassableto the navy and the city above impreg-nable against the army. These guns looksolitary and deserted with no one but thepliotographers assistant in the each was attended by an eager crew,so long as the Confederacy held thereaches of the James. The serving of NAXY BROADSIDE42-POUXDER \\ITH REENFORCED BREECH these guns marked the last great sUmd ofthe Confederacy. Union assailants willtestify to how bravely and desperately theywere fought. The Confederacy was callingon every man capable of bearing Federals could easily have duplicatedtheir own armies in the field.
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