. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Ife:. CLOSER STILL TO THE ATLANTA FORT PICKET FENCES TO STOP SHERMANS ATTACK Picket fences with shaped and molded points, dangerous to the small boys breeches in times of peace, havebeen utilized by the Confederates to delay Shermans men for that fatal instant which loses many lives toa charging line. These seem proportionately as effective as the cheraux-de-frise, in the rear—logs piercedby sharpened spokes and the elaborate ditches and embankments, and palisades constructed in the worksall about Atlanta. Historians have declared
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . Ife:. CLOSER STILL TO THE ATLANTA FORT PICKET FENCES TO STOP SHERMANS ATTACK Picket fences with shaped and molded points, dangerous to the small boys breeches in times of peace, havebeen utilized by the Confederates to delay Shermans men for that fatal instant which loses many lives toa charging line. These seem proportionately as effective as the cheraux-de-frise, in the rear—logs piercedby sharpened spokes and the elaborate ditches and embankments, and palisades constructed in the worksall about Atlanta. Historians have declared that no clear conception of Shermans remarkable campaignto Atlanta can be had unless the difficult character of the country and the formidable nature of these artificialdefenses are remembered. Practically every foot of the way from Ringgold to Atlanta was entrenched. lEartlimnrks m\h iFnrts ^
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