Identifier: photographichist01mill (find matches)
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 PLUCKY LITTLE WOODEN GUNBOAT TYLER —ITS FLANKING FIREON THE CONFEDERATE TROOPS CHARGING ACROSS THE RAVINE OF DILlsBRANCH, CLOSE BY THE RIVER, GREATLY ASSISTED HURLBUT, COMMANDEROF THE FEDERAL LEFT, IN HOLDING OFF WITHERS GALLANT ATTACK
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THE DEFENDERS OF GRANTS LAST LLNE AT SHILUH These heavy Kuns when this picture was taken had not been moved from the actual position they held in the afternoon of the battleof Shiloh, Ai)ril 6, 18(>2. In one of the backward movements of Grants forces in the afternoon of that clay General Prentiss, isolatedby the retirement of troops in his flanks, fought till overwhelmed by the Confederates, then surrendered the renmant of his division.Encouraged by this success General Bragg ordered a last desperate charge in an effort to turn the left of the re-formed Federal line.Onward swept the Confederates toward a grim line of batteries, which Colonel Webster, of Grants staff, liad ranged along the top ofthe bluff from a quarter to a half a mile from Pittsburg Landing. The line of artillery overlooked a deep ravine opening into the

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