. History of the Army of the Cumberland : its organization, campaigns, and battles, written at the request of Major-General George H. Thomas chiefly from his private military journal and official and other documents furnished by him . llVlll!lllllll!!lf Fig. 2. Elevation of Rectangular Blocs Fig. 3. Section* ox A. B. (Fig. 1.) When General Buell was campaigning in Kentucky andTennessee his engineers constructed stockades for defendingrailroad bridges—a favorite form being that of a square re-doubt with four circular bastions, the diameter of the latterbeing made the same as that of a
. History of the Army of the Cumberland : its organization, campaigns, and battles, written at the request of Major-General George H. Thomas chiefly from his private military journal and official and other documents furnished by him . llVlll!lllllll!!lf Fig. 2. Elevation of Rectangular Blocs Fig. 3. Section* ox A. B. (Fig. 1.) When General Buell was campaigning in Kentucky andTennessee his engineers constructed stockades for defendingrailroad bridges—a favorite form being that of a square re-doubt with four circular bastions, the diameter of the latterbeing made the same as that of a Sibley tent, so that the bas-tions could be covered by these tents and used as mens quar-ters. These stockades answered a good purpose againstinfantry, but were worse than nothing against artillery, be-coming at such times mere slaughter-pens. With this expe-rience before me, I determined to endeavor to make my 1 dock-houses proof against such light artillery as cavalry might beexpected to take with them. The Michigan Engineers (C1< ►nelInnes) were assigned by General Thomas to the work of build-ing the necessary block-houses, and accordingly I started outwith Lieutenant-Colonel Huntoon (then commanding the reg-iment) on a tour of location, stopping at every bridge andselectin
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