. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE TEEMING WHAR\ES Xo signs of warfare, no marching men or bodies lying onthe blood-soaked sward, are needed to mark this as awar-time photograph. No 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-l(jw; he has caught the eye of the camera and drawn upat Attention, shoulders back, heels together, and armshanging at his side. There is no effect of posing, no affec-tation here; he stan
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . THE TEEMING WHAR\ES Xo signs of warfare, no marching men or bodies lying onthe blood-soaked sward, are needed to mark this as awar-time photograph. No 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-l(jw; he has caught the eye of the camera and drawn upat Attention, shoulders back, heels together, and armshanging at his side. There is no effect of posing, no affec-tation here; he stands as he has been taught to is a soldier. No frowning cannon coukl 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 military rail-. COPVRIGMT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO SUPPLIES FOR AN ARMY—BELOW, AN ENGINE OF THE U. S. MILITARY 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 12-inch shell into Petersburg inmodern days. From here President Lincoln set out tosee a grand review and witnessed a desperate General Sherman, 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 take care of himself with the smiling assurancethat he was in the hands of Grant and the army.
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