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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THE WORK OF THE BESIEGERS Battery Sherman, on the Jackson Road, before Vicksburg. Settling down to a siege did not mean idlenessfor Grants army. Fortifications had to be opposed to the formidable one of the Confederates and a con-stant bombardment kept up to silence their guns, one by one. It was to be a drawn-out duel in whichPemberton, hoping for the long-delayed relief from Johnston, held out bravely against starvation and evenmutiny. For twelve miles the Federal lines stretched around Vicksburg, investing it to the river bank,north and south. More than eighty-nine battery positions were constructed by the Federals. BatterySherman was exceptionally well built—not merely revetted with rails or cotton-bales and floored withrough timber, as lack of proper material often made necessary. Gradually the lines were drawn closer andcloser as the Federals moved up their guns to silence the works that they had failed to take in May. Atthe time of the surrender Grant had more than 220 guns i

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