. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ly work. In the lower picture we see the fortifications to the east of the town, before which Grants army was now entrench-ing When Vicksburg had first been threatened in 1862. the Confederate fortifications had been laid out and work begun on themin haste with but five hundred spades, many of the soldiers delving with their bayonets. The sites were so well chosen and the workso well done that thev had withstood attacks for a They were to hold out still longer.
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ly work. In the lower picture we see the fortifications to the east of the town, before which Grants army was now entrench-ing When Vicksburg had first been threatened in 1862. the Confederate fortifications had been laid out and work begun on themin haste with but five hundred spades, many of the soldiers delving with their bayonets. The sites were so well chosen and the workso well done that thev had withstood attacks for a They were to hold out still longer. By May 18th the Federals had eon,-pletely invested ^•icksburg, and Grant and Sherman rode out to Haynes Bluff to view the open river to the north. < .w„ wh,ch abundant supplies were now coming for the army. Sherman, who had not believed that the plan could .succeed, frankly acknowledgedhis mistake. But the Mississippi was not yet theirs. Sherman, the fortifications of the next daj. «as re-pulsed. A second attack, on the 22d. failed and on the Grant settled down to starve Pemberton Wis
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