. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . f^. THE FINAL BLOW TO THE CONFEDERACYS SOUTHERN STRONGHOLD It was Shermans experienced railroad wreckers that finally drove Hood out of Atlanta. In the picture the rails heating red-hotamid the flaming bonfires of the ties, and the piles of twisted debris show vividly what Sherman meant when he said their work wasdone with a will. Sherman saw that in order to take Atlanta without terrific loss he must cut off all its rail communications. This hedid by taking
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . f^. THE FINAL BLOW TO THE CONFEDERACYS SOUTHERN STRONGHOLD It was Shermans experienced railroad wreckers that finally drove Hood out of Atlanta. In the picture the rails heating red-hotamid the flaming bonfires of the ties, and the piles of twisted debris show vividly what Sherman meant when he said their work wasdone with a will. Sherman saw that in order to take Atlanta without terrific loss he must cut off all its rail communications. This hedid by taking the field with our main force and using it against the communications of Atlanta instead of against its mtrench-ments. On the night of August 25th he moved with practically his entire army and wagon-trains loaded with fifteen days the morning of the 27th the whole front of the city was deserted. The Confederates concluded that Sherman was in day they found out their mistake, for the Federal army lay across the West Point Railroad while the soldiers began wrecking day they were in motion toward the railr
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