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Title: The photographic history of the civil war..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works
Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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BEFORE THE MARCH TO THE SEA These two photographs of General Sherman were taken in 1864—the year that made him an inter-national figure, before his march to the sea which electrified the civilized world, and exposed once forall the crippled condition of the Confederacy. After that autumn expedition, the problem of theUnion generals was merely to contendwith detached armies,no longer with the combined States of the(Onfederacy. The latter had no means of extending further support to the dwindling troops in thefield. Sherman was the chief Union exponent of the tactical gift that makes marches count as muchas fighting. In the early part of 1864 he made his famous raid across Mississippi from Jackson toMeridian and back again, destroying the railroads, Confederate stores, and other property, and des-olating the country along the line of march. In May he set out from Chattanooga for the invasion ofGeorgia. For his success in this campaign he was appointed, on August 12th, a major-general

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