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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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r-ganized. Colonel Josiah Gorgas, a graduate of the UnitedStates INIilitary Academy in the class of 1841, was appointedchief of ordnance about the end of February. 18(51. The de-partment immediately sent out purchasing-officers. Of these.CcHiimander Raphael Semmes (afterward Admiral Semmes)^vas sent to New York, where, for a few weeks, he was able tol)uy ordnance stores in considerable quantity and ship them tothe South; and Colonel Caleb Huse was soon afterward sent toIjondon to act as general purchasing-agent in Kngland andon the European continent. He remained on this dutythroughout the war, and did invaluable service to the Confed-erate cause. The seat of the Confederate Government having beenmoved to Richmond, Colonel Gorgas there jjroceeded to organ-ize the center of activity of the Ordnance Department, Therewere four main sources of supply: anns on hand at the be-ginning of the war, those cajitured from the United States,those manufactured in the Confederacy, and those imported
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OF REVIEWS CO. GUNS JUST SEIZED BY CONFEDERATES—1861 The photograph of the cannoneers in their hiclcory sliirts, and the long line of eannon, was taken hy J. D. Edwards of New Orleans.This is one of the Confederate sand-bag batteries bearing on Fort Piekens. The Northern administration not only failed to take stepsat the outset of the war to protect the great navy-yard at Norfolk, but it also surrendered that at Peusacola. The former could havebeen retained had the incoming administration acted more promptly. With the loss of these two great establishments to the Unionwent some thousands of cannon which aided immensely to arm the Southern batteries. This was one more source from which theConfederacy secured her guns. All of the big guns in the coastwise forts were old-time Columbiads placed there in 1856. ®Ii? (EoufrJirrat^ (l^rJinaitr?

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