City of Atlanta, Georgia, No. 2 (Primary Title)
Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign (Series Title)
George N. Barnard, American, 1819 - 1902 (Artist)
George Barnard—along with Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner—worked for Mathew Brady’s photographic studio and, like them, is remembered for documentary images of the Civil War. At the outbreak of the conflict, Barnard was sent to photograph various locations in Virginia, including Harpers Ferry (now in West Virginia), Bull Run, and Yorktown. In 1864 he was made the official photographer for the United States Army, Chief Engineer’s Office, Division of the Mississippi, commanded by General William Tecumseh Sherman. Barnard followed the Union officer’s infamous Southern march and in 1866 published an album of sixty one images, Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign. His depictions of a gutted Atlanta, including this one, are among Barnard’s best known.
On the original two toned printed mount
Photographer's credit and title printed in black ink in lower margin below image: "Photo from nature By: G. N. Barnard / City of Atlanta, GA No. 2".
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
"Five Years of Collecting", VMFA, 25 March - 4 May 1980
Barnard, George N. "Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign". (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1977) # 46.
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