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Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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wires alongthe swampy bottom-lands of eastern Virginia, and as theycame in contact, here and there along the line, there werethe inevitable sputterings of flame and considerable destruc-tion wrought. The advance Federal infantry crossed thePamunkey, after the cavalry, at Hanoverstown, early on May28th. The Second Corps was close behind the Sixth: the Fifthwas over by noon, while the Ninth, now an integral portion ofthe Army of the Potomac, passed the river by midnight. On the 31st General Sheridan reached Cold Harbor,which Meade had ordered him to hold at all hazards. Thisplace, probably named after the old home of some Englishsettler, was not a town but the meeting-place of several roadsof great strategic importance to the Federal army. They lednot only toward Richmond by the way of the upper Chicka-hominy bridges, but in the direction of White House Landing,on the Pamunkey River. Both Lee and Meade had received reenforcements—the Vv~ ; Wn 0 im - / v C4 ^Uy W^t ^•-;
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READY FOR THE ADVANCE THAT LEE DROVE BACK Between these luxuriant banks stretch the pontoons and bridges to facilitate the rapid crossing of the North Anna by Hancocks Corpson May 24th. Thus was completed the passage to the south of the stream of the two wings of the Army of the Potomac. But whenthe center under Burnside was driven back and severely handled at Ox Ford, Grant immediately detached a brigade each from Han-cock and Warren to attack the apex of Lees wedge on the south bank of the river, but the position was too strong to justify the at-tempt. Then it dawned upon the Federal general-in-chief that Lee had cleaved the Army of the Potomac into two separatedbodies. To reenforce either wing would require two crossings of the river, while Lee could quickly march troops from one side to theother within his impregnable wedge. As Grant put it in his report, To make a direct attack from either wing would cause a slaughterof our men that even success would not justify.

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