Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 71
discover and dig them up.They begged hard, but he was inexorable, andthey stepped gingerly on, and removed ten of theconcealed torpedoes. In the swamp region it was often necessary to the rice fields had been flooded, and the onlyapproaches to the city were by five narrow cause-ways, each commanded… … MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA—CROSSING A RIVER ON A PONTOON-BRIDGE. build what the soldiers called corduroy roadsbecause they resembled the ribs in corduroy cloth.The rail fences were pulled apart, the trees cutdown, the branches stripped off, and the woodwas laid closely, stick by stick, and side by…
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