Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign

Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign is a significant photographic book published in 1866 by George N. Barnard. Barnard served as the official army photographer for General William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War.1

The book documents Sherman's invasion of Georgia and his "March to the Sea". Barnard utilized the wet-collodion process, a common but time-consuming method for battlefield photography at the time. This process meant that action shots were not feasible, so the photographs primarily depict troops behind the lines, strategic locations, and scenes of destruction. After the war, Barnard revisited battle sites to capture the full extent of the war's devastation.12