. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . or a time during the summer there was hotfighting every hour in the day and frequently farinto the night. The two armies were ready tofight to a finish. The Union Army was prepar-ing itself for the final stroke and the conflictswere constant. It was during this campaignthat the battles of New Market Heights andCedar Creek were fought and Sheridan made hisfamous ride down the Shenandoah Valley toWinchester. Grants base of supplies was atCity Point on the James River. On the ninth day of August, in 1864,
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . or a time during the summer there was hotfighting every hour in the day and frequently farinto the night. The two armies were ready tofight to a finish. The Union Army was prepar-ing itself for the final stroke and the conflictswere constant. It was during this campaignthat the battles of New Market Heights andCedar Creek were fought and Sheridan made hisfamous ride down the Shenandoah Valley toWinchester. Grants base of supplies was atCity Point on the James River. On the ninth day of August, in 1864, there was an explosionof the ordnance barges and a war camera washurried to the scene and secured this negativeon the same day. At the same time, while Gen-eral Grant was in conference with his staff in histent at the army headquarters, the war photogra-phers secured the picture shown on the precedingpage. The general may be seen in the center ofthe group, sitting in the chair, with his hat char-acteristically pushed back on his head and hislegs crossed. This is an interesting IN the closing months of 1S64events occurred in rapid succes-sion in the southwest. TheConfederates, under Hood,driven from Georgia by Sherman, in-vaded Middle Tennessee. GeneralPrice began his invasion of Missouriand destroyed property valued atthree millions of dollars and seized avast quantity of supplies. The Unionforces, under General Thomas, wereconcentrated at Nashville. Therewere continual skirmishes and atnightfall, on the sixteenth of Decem-ber, General Thomas ordered histroops into line of battle, with the in-tent of driving Hoods Army from theterritory. In a terrific fire of mus-ketry, grape and canister, the Fed-erals pushed forward. In the nexttwo days the Confederates lost alltheir artillery. General Thomas tookfour thousand, five hundred prison-ers, nearly three hundred being offi-cers. The fleeing Confederate col-umns left nearly three thousand deadand wounded on the ground, w
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