Atlanta before being burnt, Georgia, 1864 – Antique Photo Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Atlanta before being burnt, Georgia, 1864. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Atlanta, before being burnt: by order of Gen'l. Sherman, from the cupola of the Female Seminary
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Atlanta before being burnt, Georgia, 1864
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Atlanta in 1864 was a railroad city, and its rail junctions made it one of the most valuable targets in the Confederacy. The city had grown quickly after the Western and Atlantic Railroad made it a terminus in the 1840s, and by the war years it handled supplies and troops moving between Virginia, Tennessee and the Deep South. Union forces under William T. Sherman laid siege to the city through the summer, and the Confederate army evacuated on September 1, after which the city's public buildings, depots and factories were destroyed in November before Sherman began his march to the sea. George N. Barnard, a photographer with Sherman's army, made this view in the months before that destruction.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Creator | barnard, george n. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Georgia |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,294 × 1,541 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Atlanta, before being burnt: by order of Gen'l. Sherman, from the cupola of the Female Seminary |
| Reference | GA Atlanta before being burnt 1864 |
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