The photographic history of the Civil War - in ten volumes (1911) (14762962325)

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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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, 200 wounded. Confed. 16 killed,39 wounded, 2,527 taken prisoners. 10.—Elizabeth City, or Cobbs Point, N. C.Union, Gunboats Delaware, Underwriter,Louisiana, Seymour, Hetzel, Shawseen,Valley City, Putnam, Commodore Perry,Ceres, Morse, Whitehead, and Brinker.Confed., Mosquito fleet commandedby Commodore W. F. Lynch, and com-prising the vessels engaged at RoanokeIsland on the 8th, except the Curlew.Losses: Union 3 killed. 13.—Bloomery Gap, Va. Union, Gen. Lan-ders Brigade. Confed., 31st, 67th,89th Va. Losses: Union 11 killed, 5wounded. Confed. 13 killed, 65 miss-ing. 14-16.— Fort Donelson, or Dover, Tenn.Union, Gunboats Carondelet, Pittsburgli.Louisville, St. Louis, Tyler, and Cones-toga, 17th and 25th Ky., 11th, 25th,sfst, and 44th Ind., 2d, 7th, 12th and14th Iowa, 1st Neb., 58th and 76th Ohio,8th and 13th Mo., 8th Wis., 8th,9th, 11th,12th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 28th, 29th, 30th,31st, 41st, 45th, 46th, 48th, 49th, 57th,and 58th 111., Batteries B and D 1st 111. * No record found.(35G)
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