General William Tecumseh Sherman and Union troops enter Atlanta

On September 2, 1864 the Union forces of General William Tecumseh Sherman march into Atlanta. [Atlanta, Ga. Gen. William T. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort No. 7]. George N. Barnard, 1819-1902, photographer. CREATED, PUBLISHED [1864] SPECIAL TERMS OF USE No known restrictions on publication.

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SUMMARY: 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.

NOTES: Stereo filed in LOT 4191. Reference: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0689

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Two plates form left (LC-B811-3623A) and right (LC-B811-3623B) halves of a stereograph pair; with variant view plate (LC-B811-3623D).

Forms part of Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) MEDIUM: 2 negatives (3 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. CALL NUMBER: LC-B811- 3623.

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CSS Shenandoah (1864-1865)

CSS Shenandoah (1864-1865) Hauled out for repairs at the Williamstown Dockyard, Melbourne, Australia, in February 1865. Note Confederate flag (possibly retouched) flying from her mizzen gaff, and fresh caulking between her planks. Courtesy of Martin Holbrook, 1977. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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CSS Shenandoah, a 1160-ton screw steam cruiser, was launched at Glasgow, Scotland, in August 1863 as the civilian steamer Sea King. After the Confederate Navy secretly purchased her, she put to sea in October 1864, under the cover story that she was headed for India on a commercial voyage. Sea King rendezvoused at sea off Madeira with another ship, which brought Confederate Navy officers, some crew members, heavy guns and other equipment needed to refit her as a warship. This work was completed at sea under the supervision of C.S. Navy First Lieutenant (later Commander) James Iredell Waddell, who became the cruiser's first Commanding Officer when she was commissioned as CSS Shenandoah on 19 October.

Waddell took his ship through the south Atlantic and into the Indian Ocean, capturing nine U.S. flag merchant vessels between late October and the end of 1864. All but two of these were sunk or burned. In late January 1865, Shenandoah arrived at Melbourne, Australia, where she was able to receive necessary repairs and provisions, as well as adding more than forty "stowaways" to her very short-handed crew. Following three weeks in port, the cruiser put to sea, initially planning to attack the American south Pacific whaling fleet.

However, discovering that his intended targets had been warned and dispersed, Waddell set off for the north Pacific. He stopped in the Eastern Carolines at the beginning of April, seizing four Union merchantmen there and using their supplies to stock up for further operations. While Shenandoah cruised northwards in April and May, the Confederacy collapsed, but this news would spread very slowly through the distant Pacific. Following a month in the Sea of Okhotsk that yielded one prize and considerable experience in ice navigation, she moved on to the Bering Sea. There, between 22 and 28 June 1865 the now-stateless warship captured two-dozen vessels, destroying all but a few. Soon afterwards, Waddell started a slow voyage towards San Francisco, California, which he believed would be weakly defended against his cruiser's guns.

Though Shenandoah's late June assault on the whaling fleet was accompanied by many rumors of the Civil War's end, she did not receive a firm report until 2 August 1865, when she encountered an English sailing ship that had left San Francisco less than two weeks before. Waddell then disarmed his ship and set sail for England. Shenandoah rounded Cape Horn in mid-September and arrived at Liverpool in early November, becoming the only Confederate Navy ship to circumnavigate the globe. There she hauled down the Confederate Ensign and was turned over to the Royal Navy. In 1866 the ship was sold to the Sultan of Zanzibar and renamed El Majidi. She was variously reported lost at sea in September 1872 or in 1879.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Sherman as a major general in May 1865. The black ribbon of mourning on his left arm is for President Lincoln. Portrait by Mathew B. Brady. (1822 – January 15, 1896) Download High Resolution PDF Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted, Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted

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This This image (or other media file) is also in the public domain in countries that figure copyright from the date of death of the artist (post mortem auctoris) in this case Mathew B. Brady. (1822 – January 15, 1896), and that most commonly runs for a period of 50 to 70 years from December 31st of that year.

Creator(s): War Department. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (08/01/1866 - 09/18/1947) Type(s) of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials
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Coverage Dates: ca. 1860 - ca. 1865, Part Of: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, compiled 1921 - 1940, documenting the period 1860 - 1865


General Note(s): Use War and Conflict Number 125 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image. Variant Control Number(s): NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-B-1769

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* Subjects Represented in the Archival Material:
o American Civil War, 1861-1865

* Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Materials:
o Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washington, D.C.) (1858 - ?), Photographer.

Julia Ward Howe

Digital ID: cph 3b45644 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-99602 (b&w film copy neg.) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,524 kilobytes)

TITLE: [Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) , half-length portrait, facing front]. CALL NUMBER: BIOG FILE [P&P]. REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-99602 (b&w film copy neg.)MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: c1902. NOTES: H18619 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.E. Purdy, Boston.

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Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic.".

Howe's "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", set to William Steffe's already-existing music, was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the Union during the American Civil War.

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln

Photograph of President Abraham Lincoln. ARC Identifier 530413 / Local Identifier 111-B-6346. Item from Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1982

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Type(s) of Archival Materials: Photographs and other Graphic Materials

Contact(s): Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3530; FAX: 301-837-3621; EMAIL: stillpixorder@nara.gov.

Part Of: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, compiled 1921 - 1940, documenting the period 1860 - 1865

Access Restriction(s): Unrestricted, Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted

Variant Control Number(s): NAIL Control Number: NWDNS-111-B-6346. Other Identifier: 10410. This is the NARA Internal Exhibit Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit.