. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . e field and distrib-uted as far as time would permit. Revised editions of themaps were published as often as new information was col-lected. In this way, several editions of eleven maps werearranged and issued, comprising svuweys covering an area ofseven hundred and thirty scjuare miles. These were also cor-rected by instruments carried l)y the sujjply train and by mapscajjtured from the Confederates. Before the army started from its winter quarters on thenorth of the Rapidan, in the s])ring of 18()-t. for the last greatcampaign, t
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . e field and distrib-uted as far as time would permit. Revised editions of themaps were published as often as new information was col-lected. In this way, several editions of eleven maps werearranged and issued, comprising svuweys covering an area ofseven hundred and thirty scjuare miles. These were also cor-rected by instruments carried l)y the sujjply train and by mapscajjtured from the Confederates. Before the army started from its winter quarters on thenorth of the Rapidan, in the s])ring of 18()-t. for the last greatcampaign, there had been twelve hundred maps made andissued. After the start, and before the end of the siege ofPetersbiug, about sixteen hundred were issued from newsurveys. In addition to the duties of siuveying the country andmaking and distributing maps, the officers of the cori)s werecharged with the work of selecting jwsitions and directingtheir fortification. On the morning of the 3d of June, a gal-lant assault by the whole Union army was directed against C. , 1. PONTOON-BRIDGE WHERE GRANT CROSSED THE JAMES IN JUNE, 1804 Strips of water a few hundred feet wide often nullify the plans for entire armies. This page of pontoon-bridges gives some idea of theinestimable services of the Engineer Corps. In the upper photograph is one of the pontoon-bridges across the James, at PowhatanPoint, near Harrisons Landing, which was used by part of General Grants army in the march from Cold Harbor to Petersburg. Belowto the left is shown a pontoon-bridge over the James with a movable draw, to let vessels pass tlirough. On the right is the pontoon-bridge at Broadway Landing on the Appomattox, over which General Smiths corps moved to make the first attack on Petersburg.
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