. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . country made it impossible to mass theguns for good effect. The naval assistance afforded most ofthe heavy gun-practice that Avas necessary or desirable againstthe Confederates. On the last attempt, however, when the troops had leftthe river and were moving against Pemberton, Grants gunsassumed their full importance. Plis army consisted of theThirteenth Army Corps, Major-General McClernand; theFifteenth Army Corps, Major-General Sherman, and the Sev-enteenth Army Corp
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . country made it impossible to mass theguns for good effect. The naval assistance afforded most ofthe heavy gun-practice that Avas necessary or desirable againstthe Confederates. On the last attempt, however, when the troops had leftthe river and were moving against Pemberton, Grants gunsassumed their full importance. Plis army consisted of theThirteenth Army Corps, Major-General McClernand; theFifteenth Army Corps, Major-General Sherman, and the Sev-enteenth Army Corps. Major-General McPherson, with an ag-gregate of sixty-one thousand men and one hundred and fifty-eight guns. The superb assistance rendered to the infantry bythe ably handled guns made it possible for Grant to defeat hisantagonist in a series of hard-fought battles, gradually movearound him, and press him back into Vicksburg. Once there,the result could not be doubtful if the Federal army could holdoff the Confederate reenforcements. This it was able to progress of the siege we shall not here consider, except to. COPYRIGHT, 1911. REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO THIS BATTERY STOOD FIFTH IN ITS NUMBER OF CASUALTIES The First Independent Battery of New York Light Artillery, under command of Captain AndrewCowan, lost two officers and sixteen enlisted men killed and mortally wounded out of its complement of150 men. Only four other batteries suffered a greater loss. Coopers Battery B, First PennsylvaniaArtillery, lost twenty-one men; Sands Eleventh Ohio Battery lost twenty men (nineteen of them inone engagement in a charge on the battery at Iuka); Philips Fifth Massachusetts Battery lost nine-teen men; and Weedens Battery C, First Rhode Island Artillery, lost nineteen men. Thisphotograph shows Cowans Battery in position within the captured Confederate works on thePetersburg line. The officers and men lived and slept in a work captured from the Confederates,and the horses were picketed
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