Identifier: photographichist02mill (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
'
Text Appearing After Image:
CQPTMfOMT. >*I1, MEVlEW OF «1.,I<1 THE HOUSE WHENCE HELP CAME Here, at his lieadciuartcrs, holding the Federal line of retreat at Rossville Gap (the Confederate ohjeetivein the battle), General Gordon Granger heard witli increasing anxiety tlu- sonnds of the coiiHicI, tlircc nnlesaway, growing more and more ominous. Finally, in disobedience of orders, he set in motion his three l)rigadesto the relief of Thomas, pushing forward two of them under Steedman. These arrived ui)on the field earlyin the afternoon, the most critical period of the l)attle, as Longstreet charged afresh on Thomas right andrear. Seizing a battle-flag, Steedman (at the order of General Granger) led his coniniand in a counter-charge which saved the Army of the Cumberland. This old house at Ro.ssville was built by John Ross, achief of the Cherokee Indians, and he lived in it till IS.S^, giving his name to the hamlet. Half-breed descend-ants of the Cherokees who had intermarried with both whites and Negroes wer

Note About Images