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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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THE GRAND CAMPAIGN UNDER WAY—THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE Pontoon-Bridges at Germanna Ford, on the Rapidan. Here the Sixth Corps vinder Sedgwick and Warrens Fifth Corps began crossingon the morning of May 4, 1864. The Second Corps, under Hancock, crossed at Elys Ford, farther to the east. The cavalry, underSheridan, was in advance, hy night the army, with the exception of Burnsides Ninth Corps, was south of the Rapidan, advancing intothe Wilderness. The Ninth Corps (a reserve of twenty thousand men) remained temporarily north of the Rappahannock, guardingrailway communications. On the wooden pontoon-bridge the rear-guard is crossing while the pontonniers are taking up the canvas bridgebeyond. The movement was magnificently managed; Grant believed it to be a complete surprise, as Lee had offered no opposition.That was yet to come. In the baffling fighting of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House, Grant was to lose a third of his superiornumber, arriving a month later on the James

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