. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE TEEMING WHARVES Xo signs of warfare, no marching men or bodies lying onthe blood-soaked sward, are needed to marli this as awar-time photograph. Xo laboring boss would havefallen into the position of the man on the top of the em-bankment. Four years in uniform has marked this fel-low; he has caught the eye of the camera and drawn upat Attention, shoulders back, heels together, and armslianging at his side. There is no effect of posing, no affec-tation here; he stands as he has been taught to is a soldier. Xo frowning c
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE TEEMING WHARVES Xo signs of warfare, no marching men or bodies lying onthe blood-soaked sward, are needed to marli this as awar-time photograph. Xo laboring boss would havefallen into the position of the man on the top of the em-bankment. Four years in uniform has marked this fel-low; he has caught the eye of the camera and drawn upat Attention, shoulders back, heels together, and armslianging at his side. There is no effect of posing, no affec-tation here; he stands as he has been taught to is a soldier. Xo frowning cannon could suggest themilitary note more clearly. Just beyond the point tothe left, above the anchorage and the busy wharves, areGeneral Grants headquarters at City Point. From hereit was but a few minutes ride on the rough militarv rail-. SUPPLIES FOR AN ARMY—BELOW, COPYRIGHT. 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO AX EXGINE OP THE U. S. MttlTARY RAILROAD way to where the one hundred and ten thousand fightingmen lay entrenched with the sixty-six thousand veteransin gray opposed to them. A warship lying where thesevessels lie could drop a H-inch shell into Petersburg inmodem days. From here President Lincoln set out tosee a grand review and witnessed a desperate General Slierman, fresh from his victorious marchfrom Atlanta to the sea, came up in the little gunboatBat to visit Grant. During the last days, when to thewaiting world peace dawned in sight. City Point, toall intents and purposes, was the National Capital, forfrom here President Lincoln held communication with hisCabinet officers, and replied to Stantons careful injunc-tions to tiike care of himself with the smiling assurancethat he was in the hands of Grant and the army.
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