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Nashville, Tenn. Steps of the Capitol with covered guns; vista of the city beyond
[Nashville, Tenn. Steps of the Capitol with covered guns; vista of the city beyond]
[Nashville, Tenn. Steps of the Capitol with covered guns; vista of the city beyond]
Nashville, Tennessee. View from Capitol, American Civil War Glass Negative.
Nashville, Tennessee. View of city. American Civil War glass negative.
Nashville, Tennessee. View from Capitol. American Civil War glass negative.
Nashville, Tennessee. View from Capitol, American Civil War Glass Negative.
Nashville, Tenn. Steps of the Capitol with covered guns; vista of the city beyond
Summary
Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Hood before Nashville. Continuing his policy of the offensive at any cost, Gen. John B. Hood brought his reduced army before the defenses of Nashville, where it was overthrown by Gen. George H. Thomas on December 15-16, in the most complete victory of the war. If the date borne on this photograph is correct, it was taken in the course of the battle.
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0721
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
Two plates form left (LC-B811-2629A) and right (LC-B811-2629B) halves of a stereograph pair.
Corresponding print is in LOT 4165-F.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about Civil war photographs is available at loc.gov
Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.
During the Civil War, photographers produced thousands of stereoviews. Stereographs were popular during American Civil War. A single glass plate negative capture both images using a Stereo camera. Prints from these negatives were intended to be looked at with a special viewer called a stereoscope, which created a three-dimensional ("3-D") image. This collection includes glass stereograph negatives, as well as stereograph card prints.