. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . FIGHTING WITH SHARPENED STICKS-PRIMITIVE BUT EFFECTIVE PROTECTION For its murderous artillery fire everydawn and dusk during the ninemonths siege of Petersburg, UnionFort Sedgwick was named by theConfederates Fort Hell. It waslocated some three miles south ofFort McGilvery on the southern endof the inner line of Federal entrench-ments, east of Petersburg. Hellfeared invasion in this instance, as thebristling row of slender sharpenedsticks planted in the salient witnes
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . FIGHTING WITH SHARPENED STICKS-PRIMITIVE BUT EFFECTIVE PROTECTION For its murderous artillery fire everydawn and dusk during the ninemonths siege of Petersburg, UnionFort Sedgwick was named by theConfederates Fort Hell. It waslocated some three miles south ofFort McGilvery on the southern endof the inner line of Federal entrench-ments, east of Petersburg. Hellfeared invasion in this instance, as thebristling row of slender sharpenedsticks planted in the salient were simply light palisades, heldby putting poles through holes in asill, and then fixing the whole in ahorizontal position. They look ab-surdly ineffectual, these sharpenedsticks designed to stop the onslaughtof an assaulting column, but whenanother row of them and anotherand yet another awaited the assail-ants, their movements were retardedso that they became exposed to MAJOR-GENERAL I). P. WOODB1 M THE ENGINEER WHO BUILT Till PONTOON BRIDGESAT FREDERICKSBURG Under the command of regular officersthe volunteer engim ers soon reached,i high point of efficiency. On thePeninsula a brigade, consisting of theFifteen I hand Fiftieth New York Vol-unteer Engineers, was commanded byBrigadier-General Daniel PhineasWoodbury, a West Point graduate ofthe class of 1830, and a captain of en-gineers at the outbreak of the war. Inthe Peninsula eampa ign I he engineerswere active in constructing fortifica-tion and building bridges. Wood-burys Bridge across the Chicka-bominy did notable service. Gallant and meritorious conduct in tlii> cam-paign secured < reneral Woodbury therank of colonel in the United StatesArmy. At Fredericksburg similarservice connected with the work of thepontoon trains brought for him therank of brigadier-general. major-general August IS, ls(H.
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