<br><p><b>Identifier</b>: photographichist05mill (<a class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&amp;profile=default&amp;fulltext=Search&amp;search=insource%3A%2Fphotographichist05mill%2F">find matches</a>)<br><b>Title</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidphotographichist05mill">The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities</a><br><b>Year</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1911">1911</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1910">1910s</a>)<br><b>Authors</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorMiller__Francis_Trevelyan__1877_1959">Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorLanier__Robert_S___Robert_Sampson___1880_">Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-</a><br><b>Subjects</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectUnited_States____History_Civil_War__1861_1865_Pictorial_works">United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectUnited_States____History_Civil_War__1861_1865">United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865</a><br><b>Publisher</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherNew_York___Review_of_Reviews_Co_">New York : Review of Reviews Co.</a><br><b>Contributing Library</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorNew_York_Public_Library">New York Public Library</a><br><b>Digitizing Sponsor</b>:  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorMSN">MSN</a><br><br><b>View Book Page</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/photographichist05mill/photographichist05mill#page/n30/mode/1up">Book Viewer</a><br><b>About This Book</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/photographichist05mill">Catalog Entry</a><br><b>View All Images</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidphotographichist05mill">All Images From Book</a><br>
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<b>Text Appearing After Image:</b><br><i>COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB CO. FIFTY-NINE AND A HALF TONS OF ORDNANCE EMPLACED IN VAIN These mortars of Battery No. 4 were ready to let loose a stream of fire upon Yorktown on the night of May 3d.But that very night the Confederate host secretly withdrew. The great weight of the projectiles theseguns could throw was sufficient to crash through the deck of a battleship. For that reason such mortars weregenerally used for sea-coast fortifications. The projectiles weighed up to 770 pounds. At times, the bigmortars were used for siege purposes, although their great weight—17,000 pounds—made them difficult toemplace in temporary works. For thirty days the Union artillerymen had toiled beneath the Virginia sunputting the seven gigantic weapons, seen on the left-hand page, into place. Their aggregate weight was110,000 pounds, or fifty-nine and a half tons. By garrisoning Yorktown and forcing the Federals to placesuch huge batteries into position—labor like moles at these elaborate, c</i><br><br><b>Note About Images</b><br></p>
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