. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . fes^=Z. PROTECTING THE REAR FOR THE MARCH TO THE SEA—A TYPICAL ARMY SCENE—1861 The armed guard indicates thatthe pick-and-shovel detail ismade up of delinquent soldiersserving petty sentences. Itseems strange that the throw-ing up of entrenchments about acity should form an essentialpart of marching, but so it wasin the ease of the greatest marchof the Civil War, which covereda total distance of a thousandmiles in less than six did not dare to leaveAtlanta with his 02,000 veteransuntil his rear was properly forti-fie

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. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . fes^=Z. PROTECTING THE REAR FOR THE MARCH TO THE SEA—A TYPICAL ARMY SCENE—1861 The armed guard indicates thatthe pick-and-shovel detail ismade up of delinquent soldiersserving petty sentences. Itseems strange that the throw-ing up of entrenchments about acity should form an essentialpart of marching, but so it wasin the ease of the greatest marchof the Civil War, which covereda total distance of a thousandmiles in less than six did not dare to leaveAtlanta with his 02,000 veteransuntil his rear was properly forti-fied against the attacks of upper photograph showssome of Shermans men diggingthe inner line of entrenchmentsat Decatur, Alabama, a task invivid contrast to the comfortablequarters of the officers at theDecatur Hotel shown in the cutbelow. Their military appeal-

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