. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ad grown for hasty dirt-diggers were coming to the front. The defensive warfare carried on to the end by the Con-federates in the West placed them most of the time behindtheir temporary or semi-permanent works. All the forts alongthe Mississippi were, necessarily, of the strongest character, as-suming the importance of permanent fortifications, armed withheavy guns and manned by small permanent garrisons and,during Grants and Banks campaigns, by larg
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ad grown for hasty dirt-diggers were coming to the front. The defensive warfare carried on to the end by the Con-federates in the West placed them most of the time behindtheir temporary or semi-permanent works. All the forts alongthe Mississippi were, necessarily, of the strongest character, as-suming the importance of permanent fortifications, armed withheavy guns and manned by small permanent garrisons and,during Grants and Banks campaigns, by larger garrisons,pushed in from the field. All of these stronger places had to betaken by the process of regular siege. When Bragg retired from Murfreesboro, he entrenchedseveral lines between that place and Chattanooga, but Rose-crans, by consummate strategic skill, turned him out of all ofthem without fighting serious battles. On the battlefield ofChickamauga, the infantry and artillery of Thomas wing of theFederal army stood like a rock behind entrenchments and barricades of earth, fence rails, and logs. Bragg, attacking V.
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