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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
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ght as well in defense of their homesas the enemy in attacking them. But you have too manycenters. You cannot hold three. You will need all your forceconcentrated to hold one position against an energetic forceequal, or superior in numbers, to all you have. The first cen-ter to be abandoned must be the Capitol. It is a fire-proofbuilding. There is little in it that is combustible exceptingthe libraries of Congress and the Supreme Court, and I donot believe that any Americans will burn public libraries andarchives of courts of justice. The second center to be aban-doned will be the City Hall hill. Finally, if necessary, all elsemust be abandoned to occupy, strongly and effectively, theExecutive Square, with the idea of firmly holding only theTreasury building, and, perhaps, the State Department build-ing, properly connected. The seals of the several departmentsof the Government must be deposited in the van Its of theTreasury. They must not be captured and used to d.ceive (84) .£!&
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COPtRlGHT, 1911, REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. A TRIP AROUND THE DEFENSES OF WASHINGTON FORT LYON This photograph is the first of a series illustrating the thirty-seven miles of forts and batteries which sur-rounded Washington. After Fort Lyon, in this series, one of the farthest forts to the southwest, comes Bat-tery Rodgers, south of Alexandria; then the entrance to Long Bridge; Forts Corcoran and Woodbury,defending the Aqueduct Bridge; Fort Marcy, the farthest north across the Potomac from Washington; FortSumner, the farthest north on the other side of the Potomac; Fort Stevens, farther east; Fort Totten, east ofFort Stevens; Fort Lincoln, still farther south; and finally Fort C. F. Smith, to show the type of construc-tion of the later forts. Thus the reader completely encircles Washington, and beholds varied types of sixty-eight forts and batteries. These mounted 807 guns and ninety-eight mortars, with emplacements for 1,120guns more. There were also 3.5,711 yards of rifle-trenches and th

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