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THE SuS'DAY OKEGOMAX, PORTLAND, JULY 23, 1911.
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A Page of Actual
Wartime Photographs
Selected From the
Great Collection Lately
Unearthed
From Forgotten Vaults
Where" They Lay
for Half a Century
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GENERAL GRANT AT COLD
VA, IN 1864
The picture shows General Grant on the
day of his unsuccessful attack on Lee's pe
tition at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1861.
THE SUNNY SIDE Or CAMP LIFE IN THE CIVIL WAR .
This picture" shows army life on the field at its brightest. The wife of an. officer has taken ad-'
vantage of a lull in the military operations to visit her husband in camp, and a mute friend of the
family is participating in the pleasure of the reunion. Were it not for the .uniforms worn by the. men
the whole. scene would Jb.e suggestive of peace. " V ' '-- .- ""
CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS AT WORK
The picture shows how the patients of some of the military 'field
hospitals passed the dreary period of their convalescence not yet well
enough to rejoin their' re Kiments at the front, but able to take out
door exercise.
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THE "CHEESE BOX" THAT SAVED A IXEET
This picture gives an excellent view of the revolving turret "of 1
Captain Ericsson's Monitor, the fighting machine which was called (
a "cheese box" by the crew of the Merrimac, and which put that
'.'terror of the seas" out of commission.
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1 V Cf Mi TORT LINCOLN, -ONE OF WASHINGTON'S CIVIL WAR DEFENSES
"'-ill I siaN?r5i?v'!2. 0 nn. !, wirinTtsi ranitai wm nracticallv surrounded by strong defenses.
" , I I f5rar" 3s,k-, " and Fort Lincoln commanded the northern approach to the. city
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ONCE THE BIGGEST OTJK IN THE WORLD
' The gua shown ia the picture was the largest made up to the period of its construction 1864. It was an
entirely new type, could throw a shell weighing 1080 pounds, and completely revolutionised the art of funmak
icg. It. was Blade for use la the Union Army.
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THE FAMOUS CHAIN BRIDGE AT WASHINGTON
A" series of more than 20 forts guarded the southern approach to the National capital, and there was no
way of sending troops Into the city from the Virginia side except by crossing either of the two bridges which
spanned the Potomac one the Chain Bridge shown in the picture and the other known as the Long Bridge. It
-was for that reason that General Jubal Early selected the north side of the capital as its most vulnerable point
when he planned his raid, in 1864.