![Identifier: photographichist6667mill (find matches) 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: roke that would at once dispel the gloom at Richmond, had posted his troops behind strongly fortified works on a ridge commandingthe valley of Peach-Trec Creek about five miles to the north of .\tlanta. Here he awaited the approach of Sherman. As the Federalswere disposing their lines and entrenching before this position. Hoods eager eyes detected a gap in their formation and at four oclockin the afternoon liurlcd a heavy force against it. Thus he proved his reputation for courage, but the outcome showed the mistake.For a brief interval Shermans forces were in great peril. But the Federals under Xewton and Geary rallied and held their ground,till Wards division in a brave counter-charge drove the Confederates back. This first effort cost Hood dear. He abandoned hisentrenchments that night, leaving on the field five hundred dead, one thousand wounded, and many prisoners. Sherman estimatedthe total Confederate loss at no less than five thousand. That of the Federals was fifteen hundred. Text Appearing After Image: COPYRIGHT, 1911, REVIEW Of REVIEWS CO. PALISADES AND CHEVAUX DE-FRISE GUARDING ATLANTA At last Sherman is before Atlanta. The photograph shows one of the keypoints in the Contederatedefense, the fort at the head of Marietta Street, toward which the Federal lines were advancing fromthe northwest. The old Potter house in the background, once a quiet, handsome country seat, is nowsurrounded by bristling fortifications, palisades, and double lines of chevaux-de-Jrise. Atlanta was engagedin the final grapple with the force that was to overcome her. Sherman has fought his way past Kenesawand across the Chattahoochee, through a country which he describes as one vast fort, saying that John-ston must have at least fifty miles of connected trenches with abatis and finished batteries. Anticipatingthat Sherman might drive him back upon Atlanta, Johnston had constructed, during the winter, heavilyfortified positions all the way from Dalton. During his two months in retreat the fortifications at At Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/The_photographic_history_of_the_Civil_War_-_in_ten_volumes_%281911%29_%2814760519954%29.jpg/601px-The_photographic_history_of_the_Civil_War_-_in_ten_volumes_%281911%29_%2814760519954%29.jpg)
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