. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . A WINTER DUG-OUT CA\E D^ELLERS. COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PU8. CO. A CONFEDERATE MILL IN Go—WHERE THE SOUND OF THE GRINDING WAS LOW The wonder is that Lees starving army was able to hold outas long as it did. This well-built flour-mill was one of manywliich in times of peace carried on an important industry in thetown. But long before the siege closed, all the mills were emptyof grain and grist. Could Lee havekept the flour-mills of Petersburg andRichmond running during the lastwinter of the war, disaster would nothave come to his f
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . A WINTER DUG-OUT CA\E D^ELLERS. COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PU8. CO. A CONFEDERATE MILL IN Go—WHERE THE SOUND OF THE GRINDING WAS LOW The wonder is that Lees starving army was able to hold outas long as it did. This well-built flour-mill was one of manywliich in times of peace carried on an important industry in thetown. But long before the siege closed, all the mills were emptyof grain and grist. Could Lee havekept the flour-mills of Petersburg andRichmond running during the lastwinter of the war, disaster would nothave come to his famished forces soearly in 1865. At the beginning ofthe year but one railroad, a canal,and a turnpike remained by whichsupplies could be gotten into Peters-l>urg from Wilmington, N. C, andCharleston, S. C. These wore thelast two ports that the blockade-runners still dared venture into withsupplies for the Confederacy. Notonly was food scarce, but the de-
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