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Nicholson (John Page) Collection: Photographs (Forty-four) Illustrating General Sherman's Campaigns in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, 1864: from the negatives in the possession of the War Department, U.S.A., 1877
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Box 1

Photographs (forty-four) illustrating General Sherman's campaigns in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia, 1864: from the negatives in the possession of the War Department, U.S.A., 1877

Scope and Contents

  • p. 1. Title page
  • p. 2. Inside leaf
  • p. 3. Whiteside Valley below the Bridge
  • p. 4. Chattanooga from the Water
  • p. 5. Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge
  • p. 6. Mission Ridge. Scene of Sherman's Attack.
  • p. 7. Untitled; view of a road coming down from the hills.
  • p. 8. Chattanooga Valley from Lookout Mt.
  • p. 9. Chattanooga Valley from Lookout Mt.
  • p. 10. Lu-La Lake. Lookout Mt.
  • p. 11. Battlefield of Chickamauga (Note: Three-story white painted clapboard house with a sign reading: Lee & Gordon's Mills. Several men posed in scene.)
  • p. 12. Rocky Faced Ridge, Georgia
  • p. 13. Untitled; view of rocks and vines.
  • p. 14. Buzzard Roost, Georgia
  • p. 15. Battlefield of Resaca, Georgia, No. 1
  • p. 16. Battlefield of Resaca, Georgia, No. 2
  • p. 17. Battlefield of Resaca, Georgia, No. 3
  • p. 18. Allatoona from the Etawah [i.e. Etowah River]
  • p. 19. Allatoona, Georgia
  • p. 20. Pine Mountain, Georgia
  • p. 21. Untitled; view of main street of an unidentified town.
  • p. 22. View of Kennesaw Mt., Georgia
  • p. 23. Untitled; view of mountain and trees, with some guns and clothing on ground.
  • p. 24. Untitled; view of foxholes on top of a mountain.
  • p. 25. Untitled; view of mountain top, trees and vegetation; logs for a foxhole.
  • p. 26. Untitled; view of mountain ridge and battle fortifications.
  • p. 27. Untitled; view of foxholes with guns and clothing.
  • p. 28. Untitled; view of trees and road.
  • p. 29. South Bank of the Chattahoochie, Georgia [i.e. Chattahoochee]
  • p. 30. Scene of General McPherson's Death (Note: Horse head skeleton lying by a tree trunk. Union Army General James B. McPherson was killed in Atlanta, July 22, 1864.)
  • p. 31. Battlefield of Atlanta, No. 1
  • p. 32. Battlefield of Atlanta, No. 2
  • p. 33. The Potter House, Atlanta, Ga. (Note: Bullet-scarred brick house, with second story blown out.)
  • p. 34. Rebel Works in front of Atlanta (Note: Four soldiers sitting in tent, gun carriages nearby. One watchman sitting atop earthworks holding a gun with a bayonet.)
  • p. 35. Rebel Works in front of Atlanta
  • p. 36. Rebel Works, Atlanta, Georgia (Note: Three men with guns, foxhole.)
  • p. 37. Rebel Works in front of Atlanta (Note: Nine men among sandbags and dugout fortification.)
  • p. 38. Rebel Works in front of Atlanta
  • p. 39. Destruction of Hood's Ordnance Train (Note: Severed railroad tracks)
  • p. 40. Atlanta, Georgia (Note: View of railroad roundhouse with several locomotives, one marked "A & W Pt RR, Georgia" [Atlanta and West Point Railroad]. City buildings in background.)
  • p. 41. Fountain, Public Park, Savannah, Georgia