. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FORT MORTON, OPPOSITE THE CRATER COPVRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. A r(JSlTl().\ Ui < OMPLETE DEFEXSE. FORT Almost every one of theforts in the long Federalline was named after somegallant officer who had losthis life in action. Theymight have been termed thememorial forts. The al-most circular entrenchment,strengthened by logs andsandbags and defended bythe formidable abatis oftree trunks, was nameil afterLieutenant-Colonel GeorgeW. Meikle, of the TwentiethIndiana Volunteers. Fromthe position shown we arclooking direct


. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . FORT MORTON, OPPOSITE THE CRATER COPVRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. A r(JSlTl().\ Ui < OMPLETE DEFEXSE. FORT Almost every one of theforts in the long Federalline was named after somegallant officer who had losthis life in action. Theymight have been termed thememorial forts. The al-most circular entrenchment,strengthened by logs andsandbags and defended bythe formidable abatis oftree trunks, was nameil afterLieutenant-Colonel GeorgeW. Meikle, of the TwentiethIndiana Volunteers. Fromthe position shown we arclooking directly into Peters-burg. Military observershave conceded that thefortifications surrounding ■^•■■IBBBIW iiiirnnndUTiiuiiini ^f


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