. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ANOTHER VOICELESS GCN. (Confederate rampart^s southeast ofYorktown.) A 32-pounder Navy gun which had been burst, wreckingits embrasure. Tht Federal soldier seated on the sand-bags is on guard-dutyto prevent carap-followers from looting the vacant fort. THE -ssi.\t. Klfl-i- lExiensive sand-bag loriihcations of the Con-federates at Yorktown.) The shells and carriage were left behind by theConfederates, but the rifled gun to which they belonged was taken alongin the retr
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ANOTHER VOICELESS GCN. (Confederate rampart^s southeast ofYorktown.) A 32-pounder Navy gun which had been burst, wreckingits embrasure. Tht Federal soldier seated on the sand-bags is on guard-dutyto prevent carap-followers from looting the vacant fort. THE -ssi.\t. Klfl-i- lExiensive sand-bag loriihcations of the Con-federates at Yorktown.) The shells and carriage were left behind by theConfederates, but the rifled gun to which they belonged was taken alongin the retreat. Such pieces as they could not remove they GUNS THE UNION LOST AND RECOVERED. (A two-gun Confed-erate battery in the entrenchments south of Yorktown.) The near gunis a 32-pounder navj; the far one, a 24-pounder siege-piece. More than3,000 pieces of naval ordnance fell into the hands of the Confederatesearly in the war, through the ill-advised and hasty abandonment ofNorfolk Nav> Yard by the Federals. Manj- of these guns did .ser\-iceat Yorktown and subsequently on the James River against the Union. Copyright hy Ialrmt Pub. Co,THE CONFEDERATE COMMAND OF THE RIVER. (BatteryMagruder, Yorktown.) Looking north up the river, four of the fiveS-inch Colunibiads composing this section of the batter> are visible. Thegrape-shot and spherical shells, which had been gathered in quantities toprevent the Federal fleet from passing up the river, were abandoned on thehasty retreat of the Confederates, the guns being spiked. The vessels inthe river are transport ships, with the exception of the frigate justofT shore.
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