. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . troke that would at once dispel the gloom at Richmond, had posted his troops behind strongly fortified works on a ridge commandingthe valley of Peach-Tree Creek about five miles to the north of .\tlanta. Here he awaited the approach of Sherman. As the Federalswere disposing their lines and entrenching before this position. Hoods eager eyes detected a gap in their formation and at four oclockin the afternoon hurled a heavy force against it. Thus he proved his reputatio
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . troke that would at once dispel the gloom at Richmond, had posted his troops behind strongly fortified works on a ridge commandingthe valley of Peach-Tree Creek about five miles to the north of .\tlanta. Here he awaited the approach of Sherman. As the Federalswere disposing their lines and entrenching before this position. Hoods eager eyes detected a gap in their formation and at four oclockin the afternoon hurled a heavy force against it. Thus he proved his reputation for courage, but the outcome showed the a brief interval Shermans forces were in great peril. But the Federals under Newton and Geary rallied and held their ground,till Wards division in a brave counter-charge drove the Confederates back. This first efTort cost Hood dear. He abandoned hisentrenchments that night, leaving on the field five hundred dead, one thousand wounded, and many prisoners. Sherman estimatedthe total Confederate loss at no less than five thousand. That of the Federals was fifteen IGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. PALISADES AND CHEVAUX-DE-FRISE GUARDING ATLANTA At last Sherman is before Atlanta. The photograph shows one of the keypoints in the Contederatedefense, the fort at the head of Marietta Street, toward which the Federal lines were advancing fromthe northwest. The old Potter house in the background, once a quiet, handsome country seat, is nowsurrounded by bristling fortifications, palisades, and double lines of chevaiix-de-frise. Atlanta was engagedin the final grapple with the force that was to overcome her. Sherman has fought his way past Kenesawand across the Chattahoochee, through a country which he describes as one vast fort, saying that John-ston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches with abatis and finislied batteries. Anticipatingthat Sherman miglit drive him back upon Atlanta, Johnston had constructed, du
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