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If you have any of this collection of vintage booklets of Civil war photographs and history, you know what a historic treat it is. Originally published and released week by week, over a 16 week period, we are offering
Part Fourteen
The Last Conflicts in Shenandoah - How the presence of General Early in the Shenandoah Valley alarmed Washington is told in vivid language by Professor Elson. But this invasion was repelled and for the last time the Capital of the Nation was threatened. Yet, before Sheridan could carry out Grant's orders to crush Early, several brisk battles had to be fought and at Cedar Creek the day was saved only by Sheridan's Ride from Winchester twenty miles away.
The Investment of Petersburg - History records few more dramatic military operations than this battle of months' duration, where the fall of the Confederate Capital must wait on a siege of unparalleled extent and severity.
The War Photographs Here Reproduced made in 1864 and 1865 show the defenses of the Nation's Capital as they appeared when the Confederates under Early threatened the city itself and the defenders in their works. More dramatic are the photographs that show the Crater torn by the Petersburg Mine and the offensive and defensive works along the ten miles of formidable fortifications. Nor are the actors neglected, Grant, Sheridan, Early, Mahone and the other leaders and their men are shown as then appeared.
CONDITION: Soft Cover stapled booklet, USED with light to moderate wear to cover and pages, 34 pages. Copyright date (only date shown) 1912.
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