The photographic history of the Civil War - in ten volumes (1911) (14576163750)

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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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December 18, 1862, FIRST HALF OF THIS IMAGE ON PREVIOUS PAGE: gives a clear idea of the magnitude of the preparations at the Federal army base thirteen days before the battle opened around Murfreesboro, at which point Bragg was threatening Nashville. Rosecrans could not move forward to attack him without supplies, and the river steamers which played so important a part in all the military )operations in the West were hurrying up the Cumberland heavily loaded with the munitions and sustenance that made possible the coming battles. The first boat completely visible in the picture at the right is the Mercury, a famous Ohio River packet at the time. Next to her lies the Lizzie Martin, and then the Palestine, another Ohio racer. She has a hole stove in her prow just above the waterline and the ships carpenter in his yawl is busily repairing it. Confederate batteries constantly menaced the Federal transports as they plied up and down the rivers. The renowned Tom Napier (sometimes scared and captured a vessel with his dummy wooden guns. ;
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SECOND HALF OF THE IMAGE (THIS IMAGE): SUPPLY STEAMERS at NASHVILLE, DECEMBER, 1862. Beyond the Palestine lie the Reveillie, the Irene, the Belle Peoria (a famous Mississippi boat from St. Louis), and lastly the Rob Roy all discharging their tons of freight, paid for by the Government at war-time prices.
On the snow-covered wharf are piled barrels of whiskey (the standard brand familiarly known as Cincinnati rot-gut, distilled for the Governments own use), while the roustabouts are rolling ashore barrels of sugar and hogsheads of molasses to be mixed with the coffee which weary soldiers are to brew for themselves in the field. There are thousands of barrels of flour still to be unloaded. In symmetrical piles lie myriad boxes each stencilled Pilot bread from U. S. Government Bakery, Evansville. Ind. Many an old Confederate knew the taste of this hard-tack and had to depend upon capturing a supply of it to stay his hunger. Confederate prisoners in their confinement watched many such scenes as this, wondering what newcomers wo