. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . hes to the White Oak Swamp. This formedthree lines of defense. It was a well-wooded region and atthis time was in many places no more than a bog. No soonerhad these positions been taken, than trees were cut to formabatis, rifle-pits Mere hastily dug, and redoubts for placingartillery were constructed. The picket line lay along a densegrowth of woods. Through an opening in the trees, the Con-federate army could be seen in force on the other side of theclearin
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . hes to the White Oak Swamp. This formedthree lines of defense. It was a well-wooded region and atthis time was in many places no more than a bog. No soonerhad these positions been taken, than trees were cut to formabatis, rifle-pits Mere hastily dug, and redoubts for placingartillery were constructed. The picket line lay along a densegrowth of woods. Through an opening in the trees, the Con-federate army could be seen in force on the other side of theclearing. The plans of the Confederate general were well Friday. May 30th, he gave orders that his army shouldbe ready to move at daybreak. That night the windows of heaven seemed to have beenopened and the fountains of the deep broken up. Thestorm fell like a deluge. It was the most violent storm thathad swept over that region for a generation. Throughoutthe night the tempest raged. The thunderbolts rolled with-out cessation. The sky was white with the electric earth was thoroughly drenched. The lowlands became a ^.
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