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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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OPENING THE CRACKER LINE The U. S. S. Chattanooga was the first steamboat built by the Federals on the upper Tennessee River. Hadthe gunboats on the Ohio been able to come up the Tennessee River nearly three hundred miles, to the assist-ance of Rosecrans, Bragg could never have bottled him up in Chattanooga. But between Florence andDecatur, Alabama, Muscle Shoals lay in the stream, making the river impassable. While Braggs pickets in-vested the railroad and river, supplies could not be brought up from Bridgeport; and besides, with the excep-tion of one small steamboat (the Dunbar), the Federals had no boats on the river. General W. F. Smith,Chief Engineer of the Army of the Cumberland, had established a saw-mill with an old engine at Bridgeportfor the purpose of getting out lumber from logs rafted down the river, with which to construct pontoons.Here Captain Arthur Edwards, Assistant Quartermaster, had been endeavoring since the siege began tobuild a steamboat consisting of a flat-bot

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