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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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FIGHTING WITH SHARPENED STICKS-PRIMITIVE BUT EFFECTIVE PROTECTION For its murderous artillery fire everydawn and dusk during the ninemonths siege of Petersburg, UnionFort Sedgwick was named by theConfederates Fort Hell. It waslocated some three miles south ofFort McGilvery on the southern endof the inner line of Federal entrench-ments, east of Petersburg. Hellfeared invasion in this instance, as thebristling row of slender sharpenedsticks planted in the salient witnesses.They were simply light palisades, heldby putting poles through holes in asill, and then fixing the whole in ahorizontal position. They look ab-surdly ineffectual, these sharpenedsticks designed to stop the onslaughtof an assaulting column, but whenanother row of them and anotherand yet another awaited the assail-ants, their movements were retardedso that they became exposed to fire.

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