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Original caption: This was a very strong Rebel fort; it was captured by Sherman's boys who made a splendid assault and charge, and carried it by storm. This view is on the river side of the fort, and shows a signal man on the parapet, and a steamer approaching.

Original caption: This is a view of a portion of the exterior of the celebrated Fort Sumter. in Charleston Harbor. S. C. The heavy batteries on Morris Island aided by a fleet or Monitors, gave this fort a terrible bombardment. It was, at the commencement of this bombardment, a handsome, symetrical fort. This photograph was made after the bombardment, and shows what a fearful pounding the fort has received; in fact it is scarcely more than a mass of ruins. Shot, shell, and dismounted and broken cannon are scattered about like leaves of the forest.

Original caption: (Numbers 6051 and 6052 are entirely different scenes.) This is a view of a portion of the exterior of the celebrated Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, S. C. The heavy batteries on Morris Island aided by a fleet of Monitors, gave this fort a terrible bombardment. It was.at the commencement of this bombardment, a handsome, symetrical fort. This photograph was made after the bombardment, and shows what a fearful pounding the fort has received: in fact it is scarcely more than a mass of ruins. Shot, shell, and dismounted and broken cannon are scattered about like leaves of the forest.

Original caption: This view shows a "Council of War" in the field near Massaponax Church, Va., May 21, 1864. The pews or benches have been brought out under the trees, and the officers are gathered to discuss the situation. It has been a disastrous day for the Union troops; the losses have been heavy, and nothing apparently gained. General Grant is bending over the bench looking over General Meade's shoulder at a map which is held in Meade's lap. The Staff Officers are grouped around under the trees; the orderlies are seen in the background; the ambulances and baggage wagons can also be seen in the background.

Original caption: This is one of General Grant's favorite horses; the photograph was taken at City Point, Va., in March, 1865.

Original caption: This is one of General Grant's favorite horses; the photograph was taken at City Point, Va., in March, 1865.

Original caption: This little house was the Headquarters of the Union army during that terrible battle. On the third day of the battle this house was in direct range of the fearful artillery fire rained by the Rebels on the Union lines just previous to Pickett's great charge. The horses of General Meade's aides were hitched to the fence and trees near the house. Sixteen of these horses were killed during the artillery fire. Dead bodies of horses are seen in the road and field near the house and under the trees.

Original caption: This, photograph of General Sherman and his Staff, was taken on July 18, 1864, on the lines before Atlanta, Ga.

Original caption: The Rebel cavalry General, J. E. B. Stuart, is well remembered by all soldiers of the Army of the Potomac. This is his grave in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.

Original caption: This is one of the hospitals established by the Sanitary Commission, in Fredericksburg, Va., during the Wilderness Campaign, in 1864. The wounded are from Kearney's Division, and are being cared for by the noble Sanitary Commission.

Original caption: This is a view of the well-known Knapp's Battery, of the Army of the Potomac, at Antietam, Md., Sept., 1862. This view was taken shortly after the great battle of Antietam.

Original caption: Fort Sedgwick on the Petersburg line was nicknamed by the troops "Fort Hell," because the Rebel shot and shell was rained into it so constantly and fiercely. This glimpse of the bomb-proof quarters of the garrison gives an idea of the unpleasantness of the fort as a place of residence during the early days of 1865. The boys, however, succeeded in extracting considerable comfort from life, even here. The rough chimney with the old pork barrel for a chimney pot, leads down underground to a little fire-place around which many a song was sung or story told, even while Death was holding his carnival just outside.