Identifier: bluegrayorcivilw00whit (find matches)
Title: The blue and the gray, or, The Civil War as seen by a boy : a story of patriotism and adventure in our war for the Union
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: White, Annie Randall
Subjects:
Publisher: (S.l. : s.n.)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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:
GENERAL ROBERT ANDERSON. ROBERT ANDERSON. 293 to keep up the appearance of being amply provided with am-munition and munitions of war, one of which was the filling ofbarrels with broken stone, with a heavy charge of powder inthe center, which they would roll down to the waters edge, andburst, giving their watchful enemies the impression that the fort
Text Appearing After Image:
WEST POINT. was rilled with infernal machines. The garrison were in novery robust condition for fighting, for salt pork was nearly theirsum total in the meat line. Meanwhile, arguing went on between the Confederates andthe garrison, to the effect that the United States governmenthad gone to pieces and they ought to evacuate the fort quietly.But that was not the sort of material that Major Anderson wasmade of. And when fire was opened upon him, he returned itin kind, and fought valiantly. It was not till the 13th that hehad to surrender. Twice the wooden frame on the inside tookfire, and when the flag staff on the fort was shot away, a serv- 2Q4 GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. ant named Peter Hart made a staff of a spar, and nailed itto the gun carriages on the parapet under the hot fire of theenemy. On the 14th Major Anderson and his garrison sadly leftthe fort after saluting the dear old flag, and went on board theBaltic, which bore them to New York. In May, 1861, Robert Anderson was made bri

Note About Images