. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Jk2^^SSssK= 1? ^S. The army engineers laughed at this wide-browed, unassuming man when he sug-gested building a dam so as to releaseAdmiral Porters fleet imprisoned by lowwater above the Falls at Alexandria at theclose of the futile Re^l River expedition in1864. Bailey had been a lumberman inWisconsin and had tliere gained the prac-tical experience which taught him that theplan was feasible. He was Acting ChiefEngineer of the Nineteenth .\rmy Corps atthis time, and ob

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . Jk2^^SSssK= 1? ^S. The army engineers laughed at this wide-browed, unassuming man when he sug-gested building a dam so as to releaseAdmiral Porters fleet imprisoned by lowwater above the Falls at Alexandria at theclose of the futile Re^l River expedition in1864. Bailey had been a lumberman inWisconsin and had tliere gained the prac-tical experience which taught him that theplan was feasible. He was Acting ChiefEngineer of the Nineteenth .\rmy Corps atthis time, and obtained permission to goahead and build his dam. In the under-taking he had the approval and earnestsupport of .\dmiral Porter, who refused toconsider for a moment the abandonmentof any of his vessels even though the RedRiver expedition had been ordered to re-turn and General Banks was chafing at de-lay and sending messages to Porter that histroops must be got in motion at once.

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