. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPiR:GHT, 1911. REVIEW WATERFRONT AT SAVANNAH, ISfio Savannah was better protected by nature from attack by land or water than any other city near the Atlantic seaboard. Stretch-ing to the north, east, and southward lay swamps and morasses through which ran the river-approach of twelve miles to the small creeks separated the marshes into islands over which it was out of the question for an army to march withoutfirst building roads and bridging miles of waterways. The Federal fleet had for months been on the block
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COPiR:GHT, 1911. REVIEW WATERFRONT AT SAVANNAH, ISfio Savannah was better protected by nature from attack by land or water than any other city near the Atlantic seaboard. Stretch-ing to the north, east, and southward lay swamps and morasses through which ran the river-approach of twelve miles to the small creeks separated the marshes into islands over which it was out of the question for an army to march withoutfirst building roads and bridging miles of waterways. The Federal fleet had for months been on the blockade otf the mouth of theriver, and Savannah had been closed to blockade runners since the fall of Fort Pulaski in April, 1862. But obstructions and power-ful batteries held the river, and Fort , ten miles to the south, on the Ogeechee, still held the city safe in its guardianship.
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