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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WATERFRONT AT SAVANNAH, 18G5 Savannah was better protected by nature from attack by land or water than any other city near the Atlantic seaboard. Stretch-ing to the north, east, and southward lay swamps and morasses through which ran the river-approach of twelve miles to the town.Innumerable small creeks separated the marshes into islands over which it was out of the question for an army to march withoutfirst building roads and bridging miles of waterways. The Federal fleet had for months been on the blockade off the mouth of theriver, and Savannah had been closed to blockade runners since the fall of Fort Pulaski in April, 1802. But obstructions and power-ful batteries held the river, and Fort McAllister, ten miles to the south, on the Ogeechee, still held the city safe in its guardianship.

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