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Union troops southwest of Atlanta William Tecumseh Sherman and his staff American Civil War: Manassas, Virginia Ruins of Charleston, South Carolina, photograph by George N. Barnard, c. 1865. View of Atlanta, Georgia; photograph by George Barnard.On September 1, 1864, Union General William Sherman took Atlanta with small losses. Atlanta was a small city but an important railhead and supply center for the South; beyond its military importance, its capture assured Lincolns reelection. In November Sherman left Atlanta, now little more than a smoking ruin, and began his three-hundred-mile march to Savannah, destroying all possible military resources in his path. American Civil War: Peninsular Campaign Nashville, Tennessee Bull Run, Virginia Confederate fort on Peach Tree Street in Atlanta, Georgia Bull Run, Virginia
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Union troops southwest of Atlanta Union troops southwest of Atlanta during the American Civil War, photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864. The photographer's darkroom can be seen at right centre.

George N. Barnard

American photographer
Also known as: George Norman Barnard
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George N. Barnard (born Dec. 23, 1819, Coventry, Conn., U.S.—died Feb. 4, 1902, Cedarvale?, N.Y.) was an American photographer who served as the official army photographer for Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s Military Division of the Mississippi during the American Civil War. Barnard began producing daguerreotype photographs in his 20s, opening his first studio in Oswego, N.Y., in 1846. While in Oswego he captured shots of a burning mill in 1853—some of the earliest news photos...

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