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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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c (lark days before Kenesaw it rained continually, and Sherman speaks of the peculiarly depressing effect tliat the weatherhad upon his troops in the wooded country. Nevertheless he must either assault Johnstons strong position on the moiuitain or beginagain his ttiinking tactics. He decided upon the former, and on .lunc 27th, after three days preparation, the assault was made. .\tnine in the morning along the Federal lines the furious fire of musketry and artillery was begun, but at all points the Confederatesmet it with determined courage and in great force. McPhersons attacking column, imder General Blair, fought its way up the faceof little Kenesaw but could not reach the summit. Then the courageous troops of Thomas charged up the face of the mountain andplanted their colors on the very parapet of the Confederate works. Here General Harker, commanding the brigade in whichfought the I-ZSth Ohio, fell mortallv wounded, as did Brigadier-General Daniel McCook, and also General Wagner.
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REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO, FEDERAL ENTRENCHMENTS AT THE FOOT OF KENESAW MOUNTAIN /V i^ after repairing the railroad bridge across the Etowah River.Johnston swung his left around to Lost JNIountain and hisright extended beyond the railroad—a line ten miles in lengthand much too long for its numbers. Johnstons army, how-ever, liad been reenforced, and it now numbered about seveiity-five thousand men. Sherman, on Jime 1st, had nearly onehimdred and thirteen thousand men and on the 8th he receivedthe addition of a cavalry brigade and two divisions of theSeventeenth Corjjs. under General Frank P. Blair, which hadmarched from Alabama. So multifarious were the movements of the two greatarmies among the hills and forests of that part of (Georgiatliat it is im))ossible for us to follow them all. On the 14th ofJune, Generals Johnston, Hardee, and Polk rode up the slopeof Pine ^Mountain to reconnoiter. As they were standing,making observations, a Federal battery in the distance openedon them and Ge

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