The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . .. THE SIEGE AND FALL OFPETERSBURG It is not improbable that Grant might have made more headway byleaving a sufficient part of his army in the trenches in front of Petersburgand by moving with a heavy force far to the west upon Lees communica-tions; or, if it were determined to capture the place a main fork; bymaking a massed attack upon some point in the center after suitable min-ing operations had weakened Lees defenses and prepared for such anoperation. But
The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . .. THE SIEGE AND FALL OFPETERSBURG It is not improbable that Grant might have made more headway byleaving a sufficient part of his army in the trenches in front of Petersburgand by moving with a heavy force far to the west upon Lees communica-tions; or, if it were determined to capture the place a main fork; bymaking a massed attack upon some point in the center after suitable min-ing operations had weakened Lees defenses and prepared for such anoperation. But the end was to come with opening spring. To the far-sighted, tins was no longer doubtful. The South must succumb to thegreater material resources of the North, despite its courage and its sacri-fices.—Colonel T. A. Dodge, , in A BmVs-Eye Viae of Our CivilWar. DURING the winter of 1864-65, General Lee, fightingGrant without, was fighting famine within. The shiv-ering, half-clad soldiers of the South crouched over feeble firesin their entrenchments. The men were exposed to the rain,snow, and sleet; sickness and disease soon a
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