. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . othe ditch, his hand clutching the flag-staff. The Confederates chargedagain only to be repulsed. Under aflag of, truce the fighting ceasedwhile Longstreets men carried awaytheir dead, dying and wounded. Granthad ordered twenty thousand men un-der General Granger to the rescue ofthe besieged city, but they failed tostart, and Sherman hurried to therelief. He reached Knoxville on thefifth of December and found the siegereduced and Longstreet had startedfor Virginia. Shermans troopshad marched four hundr
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . othe ditch, his hand clutching the flag-staff. The Confederates chargedagain only to be repulsed. Under aflag of, truce the fighting ceasedwhile Longstreets men carried awaytheir dead, dying and wounded. Granthad ordered twenty thousand men un-der General Granger to the rescue ofthe besieged city, but they failed tostart, and Sherman hurried to therelief. He reached Knoxville on thefifth of December and found the siegereduced and Longstreet had startedfor Virginia. Shermans troopshad marched four hundred miles tofight at Chattanooga, then marchedone hundred and two miles to compelthe Confederates to retire from Knox-ville. When the news reached theNorth, Grant was hailed as the Na-tions saviour. Congress bestowedupon him a gold medal, while Bragg,the Confederate general, went downbefore a storm of indignation in theSouth. One of the war camerasshortly after the battle was placed onthe parapet of Fort Sanders, andthis negative of the ruins was taken,showing the University of PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OVER THE RUINS AT KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE, IN 1863, FROM FORT SANDERS (77)
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