. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . en combating witheach other. On June 15th. General Smith pushed his waytoward the weakly entrenched lines of the city. General Beau-regard moved his men to an advanced line of rifle-pits. Herethe initial skirmish occurred. The Confederates were drivento the entrenched works of Petersburg, and not until eveningwas a determined attack made upon them. At this time Han-cock, The Superb, came on the field. Night was falling buta briglit moon was shining, and the Confederat
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . en combating witheach other. On June 15th. General Smith pushed his waytoward the weakly entrenched lines of the city. General Beau-regard moved his men to an advanced line of rifle-pits. Herethe initial skirmish occurred. The Confederates were drivento the entrenched works of Petersburg, and not until eveningwas a determined attack made upon them. At this time Han-cock, The Superb, came on the field. Night was falling buta briglit moon was shining, and the Confederate redoubts,manned by a little over two thousand men, might have beencarried by the Federals. But Hancock, waiving rank, yieldedto Smith in command. Xo further attacks were made and agolden ojjportunity for the Federals was lost. By the next morning the Confederate trenches were be-ginning to fill with Hokes troojjs. The Federal attack wasnot made luitil afternoon, when the fighting was severe forthree hours, and some brigades of the Ninth Corps assisted theSecond and Eighteenth. The Confederates were driven back (190) ^7-. COPIHIGHT, 1911 REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO MAHONE, THE HERO OF THE CR.\TER General William Mahone, C. S. A. It was through the promptness and valor of General Mahone that the Southerners, on July 30,1864, were enabled to turn back upon the Federals the disaster threatened by the hidden mine. On the morning of the explosionthere were but eighteen thousand Confederates left to hold the ten miles of lines about Petersburg. Everything seemed to favorGrants plans for the crushing of this force. Immediately after the mine was sprung, a terrific cannonade was opened from one him-dred and fifty guns and mortars to drive back the Confederates from the breach, while fifty thousand Federals stood ready to chargeupon the panic-stricken foe. But the foe was not panic-stricken long. Colonel McMaster, of the Seventeenth South Carolina,gathered the remnants of General Elliotts bri
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