Heavy artillery like this was of comparatively little use in repulsing such an attack as Early might be expected to make. Not only were these guns hard to move to points of danger, but in the summer of 1864 there were no trained artillerists to man them. Big as they were, they gave Early no occasion for alarm. from the book ' The Civil war through the camera ' hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil war times, sixteen reproductions in color of famous war paintings. The new text history by Henry W. Elson. A. complete illustrated history of the Civil war

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