<br><p><b>Identifier</b>: photographichist01mill (<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%2Fphotographichist01mill%2F">find matches</a>)<br><b>Title</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidphotographichist01mill">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/photographichist01mill/photographichist01mill#page/n257/mode/1up">Book Viewer</a><br><b>About This Book</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/photographichist01mill">Catalog Entry</a><br><b>View All Images</b>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidphotographichist01mill">All Images From Book</a><br>
Click here to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/photographichist01mill/photographichist01mill#page/n257/mode/1up"><b>view book online</b></a> to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.<br><br><b>Text Appearing Before Image:</b><br><i>guns marked gen. magkuder, yorktown in the positions where they defied mcclellans army a month</i><br><b>Text Appearing After Image:</b><br><i>Copyriyfit hi/ Pntriut Piih. Co. THE SUPERFLUOUS SIEGE The Mortar Battery that Never Fired a Shot. )?y his much heralded Peninsula Campaign, McClellan hadplanned to end the war in a few days. He landed with his Army of the Potomac at Fortress Monroe, inApril, ISOi, intending to sweep up the peninsula between the York and James rivers, .seize Richmond atone stroke, and scatter the routed Confederate army into the Southwest. At Yorktown, he was opposedby a line of fortifications that sheltered a force nuich inferior in strength to his own. For a whole month)\Ic(lcllaii devoted all the energies of his entire army to a systematic .siege. Its useless elaboration is wellillustrated by IJattery No. 4, one of fifteen batteries planted to the south and southeast of Yorktown. Theten monster 13-inch siege mortars, the complement of No. 4, had just been placed in position and were almostready for action. It was planned to have them drop .shells on the Confederate works, a mile and a halfdistant.</i><br><br><b>Note About Images</b><br></p>
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