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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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COPYRIGHT By PATSIOT PUB CO. A ROUGH-HEWN CAUSEWAY (See facing page)
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COPYRIGHT B¥ PATRIOT PUB. CO THE ARMYS HANDY MEN The Federal army, under Pope, in its advance against Lee needed much more than well drilled regiments of soldiers. Indeed, duringthe forward march the engineer corps was the busiest division of the army. Artillery battalions and provision trains had to havebridges to cross the numerous streams flowing into the Potomac and the Chesapeake. Three pictures on this page and the precedingshow us the men at their work in that summer of long ago. The polka-dot shirt of the foreman (page 14), the roughly hewntimbers cut from the banks, the improvised derrick, the piers built in the middle of the stream around which the water is nowrippling, the quiet trees on the banks—all these features stand out as clearly as they did in .\ugust of \SGi, as the engineer corps wasworking on the north fork of the Rappahannock, near Sulphur Springs. The pictures are of the same bridge from different points of view.

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