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1. On Grants City Point Railroad
On Grants City Point Railroad
Description
The Federals were not the first to use a gun mounted on the railway trucks. In the defense of Richmond during the Seven Days' and at the attack on Savage's Station the Confederates had mounted a field piece on a flat car and it did severe damage to the Federal camps. But they possessed no such formidable armored truck as this. Propelled by man-power, no puffing locomotive betrayed its whereabouts; and as it rolled along the tracks firing a shot from time to time, it must have puzzled the Confederate outposts. This was no clumsy experimental toy, but a land gunboat on wheels armored with iron-plating backed by massive beams.
2. Flocking in the army's path
Flocking in the army's path
Description
The negro refugees in this picture recall an embarassment of the march to the sea. "Negroes of all sizes" flocked in the army's path and stayed there, a picturesque procession holding tightly to the skirts of the army which they believed had come for the sole purpose of setting them free. The cavalcade of negroes soon became so numerous that Sherman became anxious for his army's sustenance.
3. On the way to the Battle of Gettysburg
On the way to the Battle of Gettysburg
4. Map of important battlegrounds
Map of important battlegrounds
5. "Our Lady's Church" and city hall
"Our Lady's Church" and city hall
Description
Now we see first the captial of Bavaria, Munich, or Muenchen. It is located on the River Isar. The colors of the flag of this country are blue and white. Besides beer, Munich is known for some other things, especially art. Munich, famous for the great art that has been created all during the centuries, is one of the art centers of Germany, and on the same level with Berlin and Dresden. It has a famous university, a Polytechnic Institute with university rank, an Academy of Fine Arts, an Academy of Natural Sciences, a famous German Academy, an Academy for Dramatic Art, for the education of actors and actresses, and a famous institute for Psychopathology, many important museums, and among them the Bavarian National Museum. This National Museum contains historical monuments and documents taken from all different branches and fields of the history of civilization, from olden times up to the present. There are two famous art galleries--the old and new Pinakotheca. The Old Pinakotheca contains masters especially of the 19th and 20th centuries. Furthermore, there is the Glyptothek, containing antique art, especially sculpture of the Greek and Roman times. Also, there is the Schack Gallery, containing German art of the 19th century especially. There is a large, wonderful State Library connected with the University Library, other galleries and the famous Alpine Museum. The name Muenchen is derived from the German word for "monk"--Moench. It has originally been a monk settlement, so it is called Muenchen. The periods which are famous for their art creations were under King Ludwig I, King Max II, and Ludwig II. Here is one of the newest architectural buildings in the city, finished a couple of years ago, the famous German Museum containing all branches of technique and natural sciences, and representing the most famous institute of this kind. At no other place in the world is a similar museum to be found. Weeks and months may be spent studying these different departments of the German Museum in Munich.
6. Letters from home
Letters from home
Description
Letters from home were a great factor in keeping up the morale of the army. Wheresoever the Armies might be located, however far removed from railroads or from the ordinary means of communication the soldier boy always expected to receive his mails. Each regiment in the field had a special postmaster. He sold stamps to the man, recevied their letters and at stated periods made trips to what would be established as a sort of main post office. The man designated as the postmaster of the regiment was generally relieved from all other duties. At times, it was an arduous task for the mail wagons to transport the accumulated mail over bad roads, and several trips might have to be made for the purpose of securing all that was lying at some distant point.
7. Bridge over the muddy Chickahominy
Bridge over the muddy Chickahominy
Description
This is a photograph of the insignificant stream that figured so largely in the calculations of the opposing generals before Richmond. Under the effect of the almost tropical rains, in a day luxuriant meadows would become transformed into lakes, and surging floods appear where before were stagnant pools. Thus it became doubtful in June whether the struggling Union army could depend upon the little bridges. It was said by some of the Union engineers that it was only the weight of the troops passing over them that held some in place. One was swept away immediately after a column had crossed. The muddy banks show more plainly than words that the little Chickahominy could do when it was thoroughly aroused.
8. Covering Lee's retreat from Pennsylvania
Covering Lee's retreat from Pennsylvania
Description
This photograph is an excellent illustration of the calvary's method of destroying the railroads between the two captials. The light rails were placed across piles of ties. The ties were lighted and the rails heated until of their own weight they bent out of shape. Mile upon mile of railroad could thus be destroyed in a day. New rails had to be brought before it was possible to rebuild the line. Note the tangle of telegraph wires. The telegraph lines were also destroyed wherever the Confederate position was known and it was therefore impossible to tap them and read the Union Leader's messages.
9. Central Argentine Railway Station
Central Argentine Railway Station
Description
Railway expansion has played a very important part in the development of the Republic. It was in 1854 that Buenos Aires granted the first railway concession in Argentina. It was for merely thirteen miles of line running westward from the capital, and it began working in 1857. Between that date and 1909 the railway mileage increased to 16,000 miles, this representing an average construction of a new line at the rate of 319 miles per annum. La Pampa is the territory with the greatest mileage in railways, and it is estimated that this mileage is likely to be doubled at no distant date. the total railroad mileage of the country is 22,310 miles.
10. Spotsylvania courthouse
Spotsylvania courthouse
Description
For miles around this quaint old village-pump surged the lines of two vast contending armies, May 8 to 12, 1864. In this picture of only a few months later, the inhabitants have returned to their accustomed quiet, although the reverberations of battle have hardly died away.