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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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ON LOOKOUT MOC.NTAIN—1864
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IN THE BELEAGUERED CITY In the parlor of this little dwelling sat Ulysses S. Grant on the evening of October 23, 1863. Mucl.lv and rain-soaked f ro.n his long ridehe was gravely eonsulting with General Thomas and his officers. The .\rmy of the Cumberland was in a serious predicament, summedup by Thomas reply to Grants first order from Nashville: We will hold the town till wc starve. Grant had starved a Confederatearmy out of ^ icksburg; and now Braggs army, recnforccd by troops from Johnston, harl settled down before Chattanooga to starve out,m turn, what was then the most important Federal force in the West. Strongly posted on Missionarv Ridge and Lookout Mountainand m Chattanooga \ alley to the south and southeast of the town, Bragg controlled the railroad, making it impossible for supplies tocome over it from Bridgeport. Ala. Everything had to be brought into Chattanooga by wagon-trains over a roundabout route of nearly i

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