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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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THE IMPASSABLE JAMES RIVER The gun is in ConfeHerate Battery Brooke—another of the defenses on the James construeterl after Butler was Ijottled up. Here in1865 the gunners were still at their posts guarding the water approach to Riflimond. The Federals had not been able to get up theriver since their first unsuccessful effort in 1862, when the hastily constructed Fort Darling at Drenrys Bluff baffled the Monitor andthe Galena. Battery Brooke was situated above Dutch Gap, the narrow neck of Farrars Island, wdiere Butlers was busily digginghis famous canal to enable the Federal gunboats to get by the obstructions he himself had caused to be sunk in the river. Even thecanal proved a failure, for when the elaborate ditch was finished under fire from the Confederate batteries above, the dam was un-skilfully blown up and remained an effective barrier against the passage of vessels.
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AN ADVANCE DEFENSE OF RICHMOND rhis Confederate gun at Battery Dantzler swept the James at a point where the river flows due south around Farrars Island. ■ But-er s Campaign consisted merely of an advance by land up the James to Drewrys Bluff and inglorious retreat back again. Far fromthreatening Richmond, it enabled the Confederates to construct strong river defenses below Fort Darling on the James to hold in?heck the Federal fleet and assist in keeping the neck of Butlers bottle tightly closed. The guns at Battery Dantzler controlledthe river at Trents Reach. In a straight line from Drewrys Bluff to City Point it was but nine miles, but the James flows in a suc-:ession of curves and bends at all angles of the compass, around steep bluffs, past swamp and meadow-land, making the route byK-ater a journey of thirty miles. If the Federal gunboats could have passed their own obstructions and the Confederate torpedoes,they would still have been subjected to the fire of Battery Dantzler f

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