. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . k of the NorthAnna, which had forced Grant to recross the river and whichwill always remain a subject of curious interest to studentsof the art of war. In one month the Union army had lost fifty-five thousandmen, while the Confederate losses had been comparativelysmall. The cost to the North had been too great; Lee couldnot be cut off from his capital, and the most feasible projectwas now to join in the move which heretofore had been thespecial object of Gen
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . k of the NorthAnna, which had forced Grant to recross the river and whichwill always remain a subject of curious interest to studentsof the art of war. In one month the Union army had lost fifty-five thousandmen, while the Confederate losses had been comparativelysmall. The cost to the North had been too great; Lee couldnot be cut off from his capital, and the most feasible projectwas now to join in the move which heretofore had been thespecial object of General Butler and the Army of the James,and attack Richmond itself. South of the city, at a distanceof twenty-one miles, was the town of Petersburg. Its defenseswere not strong, although General Gillmore of Butlers armyhad failed in an attempt to seize them on the 10th of railroads converged here and these were main arteriesof Lees supply. Grant resolved to capture this importantpoint. He sent General W. F. Smith, who had come to hisaid at Cold Harbor with the flower of the Army of the James, VifitJ mm v// i //////, s WT m. MAHONE, THE HERO OF THE CRATER General William Mahone, C. S. A. It wis through the promptness and valor of General Mahone thai the Southerners, on July 30,1864, were enabled to turn back upon the Federals the disaster threatened by the hidden mine. On the morning of the explosionthere were but eighteen thousand Confederates left to hold the ten miles of lines about Petersburg. Everything seemed to favorGrants plans for the crushing of this force. Immediately after the mine was sprung, a terrific cannonade was opened from one hun-dred and fifty guns and mortars to drive back the Confederates from the breach, while fifty thousand Federals stood ready to chargeupon the panic-stricken foe. But the foe was not panic-stricken long. Colonel McMaster, of the Seventeenth South Carolina,gathered the remnants of General Elliotts brigade and held back the Feder
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