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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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bridges. Popes army was soonresupplied and the intense feeling of apprehension allayed. In the latter part of 1862, W. W. Wright, an assistantin the work of the corps, was placed in charge of the Cumber-land Valley Railroad, which was wholly under military super-vision. Later in the war, Wright was in charge of Shermansrailroads during the great Atlanta campaign in 1864. Forhis guidance with the Cumberland road the instructions were:First, not to allow supplies to be forwarded to the advancedterminus until they were actually required; second, only suchquantities were to be forwarded as could be promptly removed:third, cars must be promptly unloaded and returned; fourth,to permit no delay of trains beyond the time of starting, butto furnish extras when necessary. When Burnsides corps evacuated Fredericksburg uponthe withdrawal of the Federal forces from the Rappahannockline before the second Rull Run campaign, all the recon-structed work at Aquia Creek and some of the bridges on the .
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THE CONSTRUCTION CORPS TURNS TO WHARF-BUILDING The construction corps of the United States Military Railroads was as versatile in its attainments as the British marines accordingto Kipling—Soldier and Sailor, too. This busy scene shows construction men at work on the wharves which formed the City Pointterminal to Grants military railroad, connecting it with the army in front of Petersburg. This hastily constructed road was aboutthirteen miles long, measured in astraight line and not counting the undulations, which, if added together, would have mad.- ilseveral miles in height.

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