. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . de, and having for a timeno bombproofs in which to take shelter, were appalled by thesudden opening of the Federal mortars. The lines were sonear together that the soldiers were inider the necessity ofkeeping their works closelj guarded to prevent their beingtaken by assault, and the moral effect was very case is related of a Confederate soldier having been blownentirely over the jJaraj^et of the work by the explosion of oneof the Federal 8-inch mortar-shells, and his body lay out ofreach of his friends, who were com
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . de, and having for a timeno bombproofs in which to take shelter, were appalled by thesudden opening of the Federal mortars. The lines were sonear together that the soldiers were inider the necessity ofkeeping their works closelj guarded to prevent their beingtaken by assault, and the moral effect was very case is related of a Confederate soldier having been blownentirely over the jJaraj^et of the work by the explosion of oneof the Federal 8-inch mortar-shells, and his body lay out ofreach of his friends, who were comi^elled to keep under coverby the Federal sharpshooters. As soon as the Confederates could place mortars in posi-tion at Petersburg, they opened on the besiegers, and there-after the fire was severe. The Federal exjjenditure of mortarammunition was over forty thousand rounds, and that of theConfederates was estimated to have been not much less. The incident of the so-called Petersburg Express, whenthe Federals mounted a 13-inch sea-coast mortar on a railroad.
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