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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

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Ctpijn.jhthu Fair,,.I Fuh. Cn rilE SUPERFLUOUS SIEGE The Mortar Battery that Never Fired a Shot. By liis inueh heralded Peninsida Campaign, McCleUan had))haniied to end the war in a few days. He hmded with his Army of the Potomac at Fortress Monroe, inApril, lS(i2, intending to sweep up the peninsida between the York and James rivers, seize Richmond atone stroke, and scatter the routed Confederate army into the Southwest. At Yorktown, he was opposedby a Hue of fortifications that sheltered a force nuieh inferior in strength to his own. For a whok^ monthMcClellan devoted all the energies of his entire army to a systematic siege. Its useless elaboration is wellillustrated bj Battery No. 4, one of fifteen batteries planted to the south and southeast of Yorktown. Theten mon.ster 13-inch siege mortars, the complement of No. 4, had just lieen placed in position and were almostready for action. It was pkmned to ha\^e them drop shells on the Confederate works, a mile and a halfdistant. Just a

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