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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 DEFENDERS COUNTER-MINE The sinister burrow opens within the Confederate Fort Mahone, seen more fully at tlie top of the preceding page. Fort Sedgwick,directly opposite Fort Mahone, hiwl been originally captured from the Confederates and hs defenses greatly strengthened. So gallingdid its fire become, and so important was its position to the Confederates, that early in the siege they planned to lay a mine in orderto regain it and perhaps break through the Federal lines and raise the siege. The distance across the intervening plain was but fifteenhundred feet. The Confederates ran their main gallery somewhat more than a third of this distance before finally abandoning it, thedifficulties of the undertaking having proved too great. This fort was named after General William Mahone, who was conspicuouslyengaged in the defense of Petersburg, and whose gallant conduct at the explosion of the Federal mine under Elliotts salient savedthe day to the Confederates. Weak as were the defenses o

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