. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . LOADING THE TRANSPORTS Copyright by Patriot Pub. Co, 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 tith, 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 f
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . LOADING THE TRANSPORTS Copyright by Patriot Pub. Co, 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 tith, 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 •ON TO RICHMOND! NEAK C , VIKGIXIA,MAY, 1S62. 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 arnjy of forty thou-sand men at White House, near Cumberland, was felt lo be the beginningof the expected advance. That part of the army not at York- town and \\ illiamsburi; 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 array before the advance to the Chickahom-iny. Here we see but part of that camp—the first to be established on a large scale, in the Peninsula campaign—looking north at the bendof the Pamunkev.
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