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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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THE LAiNOMARK OF THE CONFEDERATES LAST STAND The Union army, after the fall of Petersburg, followed the streaming Confederates, retreating westward, and came upon a part ofGordons troops near High Bridge over the Appomattox, where the South Side Railroad crosses the river on piers 60 feet high, Han-cooks (Second) Corps arrived on the south bank just after tlie Confederates had blown up the redoubt that formed the bridge head,and set fire to the bridge itself. The bridge was saved with the loss of four spans at the noith end, by Colonel Livermore, whose partyput out the-fire while Confederate skirmishers were fighting under their feet. A wagon bridge beside it was saved by the men of Bar-lows division. Mahones division of the Confederate army was drawn up on a hill, north of the river behind redoubts, but whenUnion troops appeared in force the Confederates again retreated westward along tlie river.

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