Identifier: civilwarthroughc00elso (find matches)
Title: The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Elson, Henry William, 1857- Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Civil War Semi-centennial Society Patriot Pub. Co., Springfield, Mass
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass. : Patriot Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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e Unionworks underneath the Confederate fortifications. Eight thous-and pounds of gunpowder Mere placed in lateral galleries atthe end of thetunnel. At twenty minutes to five on the morn-ing of July 30th, the mine was exploded. A solid mass of earthand all manner of material shot two hundred feet into the air.Three hundred human beings were buried in the debris as itfell back into the gaping crater. The smoke had barely clearedaway when General Ledlie led his waiting troops into the vastopening. The horror of the sight sickened the assailants, andin crowding into the pit they became completely demoralized.In the confusion officers lost power to reorganize, much lessto control, their troops. The stunned and paralyzed Confederates were not long inrecovering their wits. Batteries opened upon the approach tothe crater, and presently a stream of fire was poured into thepit itself. General Mahone hastened up with his Georgia andVirginia troops, and there were several desperate charges i Zjl
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RIVES SALIENT TRAVERSES AGAINST CROSS-FIRE

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