Atlanta, Ga. General William T. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, and staff at Federal Fort No. 7

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to abandon the munitions center of the Confederacy. Sherman remained there, resting his war-worn men and accumulating supplies, for nearly two and a half months. During the occupation, George N. Barnard, official photographer of the Chief Engineer's Office, made the best documentary record of the war in the West; but much of what he photographed was destroyed in the fire that spread from the military facilities blown up at Sherman's departure on November 15.
Stereo filed in LOT 4186.
Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0688
Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
One plate (LC-B811-3626C) forms half of a stereograph pair; with copy negative plates (LC-B811-3626A and LC-B811-3626B).
Corresponding print is in LOT 4186-S.
Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
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Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).
Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.