. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . L- fi yt^ m. IXVESTIXG BY INCHES liOgans Division undermining the most formidable redouI)t in the defenses of Vicksburg. The positionwas immediately in front of this honeycomljed slope on the Jackson road. Upon these troops fell mostof the labor of sapping and mining, which finally resulted in the wrecking of the fort so gallantly de-fended by the veterans of the Third Louisiana. As the Federal lines crept up, the men working nightand day were forced to live in burrows. They became proficient in such gopher work as the picture show
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . L- fi yt^ m. IXVESTIXG BY INCHES liOgans Division undermining the most formidable redouI)t in the defenses of Vicksburg. The positionwas immediately in front of this honeycomljed slope on the Jackson road. Upon these troops fell mostof the labor of sapping and mining, which finally resulted in the wrecking of the fort so gallantly de-fended by the veterans of the Third Louisiana. As the Federal lines crept up, the men working nightand day were forced to live in burrows. They became proficient in such gopher work as the picture to the \Miite House (Shirleys) the troops could be marched in comparative safety, but a short dis-tance beyond they were exposed to the Confederate sharpshooters, who had only rifles and muskets todepend on; their artillery had long since been silenced. Near this house was constructed CoonskinsTower; it w-as built of railway iron and cross-ties under the direction of Second Lieutenant Henry C. Foster,of Company B, Twenty-third Indiana. A backwoodsman and dead-shot,
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