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The Civil War in America: a portion of the abandoned Confederate works and camp at..., 1862. Creator: Unknown.

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The Civil War in America: a portion of the abandoned Confederate works and camp at Centreville - from a sketch by our special artist, 1862. 'A toIerably good notion of the strength of the Confederate works at Centreville may be obtained from our Engraving...It shows two of the redoubts, with the connecting links of rifle-pits and covered ways which extend along the crests of hills for an immense distance, making the position seemingly impregnable with good troops to hold it. The fortifications at Manassas are nothing in comparison with these. Centreville heights is the place which has held the Federal army in check for more than eight months. In two of the embrasures shown in our Illustration are two of the famous "quaker" guns, made of logs, which the Confederates, by way of joke, leave in place of the genuine articles when they evacuate their stronghold. Protected by the lines is a hutted camp for an entire division, and of these camps there are sufficient to provide quarters for over 100,000 men'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862.

Date

1862

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A08_477

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NA

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NA

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

30,6Mo (2,6Mo) / 32,5cm x 23,6cm / 3838 x 2789 (300dpi)

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hill hills wood people male man men arts country fence art guy British geography color Virginia wooden military war fake location Armed Forces century Britain newspapers press soldiers soldier dummy print wicker concept B&W artillery captured Army warfare engraved engraving United States of America Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W armed services white and black American Civil War Centreville nineteenth century Union Army American America USA The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN ILN newspaper gun emplacement united states Unknown 19th-century