. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . LO.\DING IHE THANSPORTS (:n,..ir,„M I,:, l: The Lower Wharf at Yorktown.—The steamer Robert Morris ready to depart, waiting for the embarkation of that portion of the Armyof the Potomac which went up the York River to the mouth of the Pamunkey from Yorktown, May (ith, after the evacuation. Alreadythe dismantling of both the Confederate and the Federal forts had begun. One sees gun-carriages, mortars, and tons of shot andshell, ready to be taken up the river for the operations against *0N TO RICHMOND! NEAR CUMBERLAND, VIR
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . LO.\DING IHE THANSPORTS (:n,..ir,„M I,:, l: The Lower Wharf at Yorktown.—The steamer Robert Morris ready to depart, waiting for the embarkation of that portion of the Armyof the Potomac which went up the York River to the mouth of the Pamunkey from Yorktown, May (ith, after the evacuation. Alreadythe dismantling of both the Confederate and the Federal forts had begun. One sees gun-carriages, mortars, and tons of shot andshell, ready to be taken up the river for the operations against *0N TO RICHMOND! NEAR CUMBERLAND, , 1862. With Confederate opposition at Yorktown and Williams-burg broken down, the Army of the Potomac was now ready for the finalrush upon Richmond. The gathering of the Union army of forty thou-sand men at White House, near Cumberland, was felt to he the beginningof the expected victorious advance. That part of the army not at York- town and Williamsburg was moved up the Peninsula as fast as the condi-tions of the road would permit. After the affair at Williamsburg thetroops there joined the main army before the advance to the Chickahom-iny. Here we see but part of that camp—the first to be established ona large scale, in the Peninsula campaign—looking north at the bendof the Pamunkey.
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