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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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THE WELCOME NEWCOMER The home-made little steamboat Chattanooga was beset with difficulties and dangers on her memorablevoyage of November 30th. She made but slow progress against the wind and the rapid current of the tor-tuous Tennessee. Fearful of breaking a steam pipe or starting a leak, she crawled along all day, and thenwas enveloped in one of the darkest of nights, out of which a blinding rain stung the faces of her anxious crew.Assistant Quartermaster William G. Le Due, in command of the expedition, helped the pilot to feel his waythrough the darkness. At last the camp-fires of the Federals became guiding beacons from the shore andsoon the Chattanooga tied up safely at Kelleys Ferry. The Cracker Line was at last opened—in thenick of time, for there were but four boxes of hard bread left in the commissary at Chattanooga, where fourcakes of hard bread and one-quarter of a pound of pork were being issued as a three-days ration.

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