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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Great Speckled Bird

Date: 01 08 1973
Description: Cover of "The Great Speckled Bird," an underground newspaper, featuring an illustration of a Frosted Flakes cereal box, pouring out atomic bombs on a Vietn...
Photograph

Confederate Breastworks

Date: 
Description: A view of Confederate breastworks, ridges in the hillsides for defense, at Western Heights. A fence divides the land in the foreground. Caption reads: "Con...
Postcard

Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial

Date: 1929
Description: A colored postcard showing the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial at an early stage of the bas-relief carving. Caption reads: "Stone Mountain Confederate ...
Photograph

City of Atlanta, GA No. 2

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view of commercial area of the city, taken after General Sherman marched through. Most of the buildings appear to be intact, but one of the build...
Photograph

City of Atlanta, GA No. 1

Date: 1866
Description: Elevated view of the ruins of the railroad roundhouse, with the city in the background. Men are posing on the train cars and engines.
Plate 45
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 5

Date: 1864
Description: Confederate defenses surrounding the city. A tripod style configuration of rifles with a bag and canteen hanging from it is in the foreground.
Plate 43<...
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 4

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses surrounding the city. This view is of the inside of the earthworks which includes two cannons. A Union soldier sits as a lo...
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 3

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with a cannon and earthworks in the foreground. Tents are in the background among trees.
Plate 41
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 2

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with several cannons behind earthworks. A Union soldier stands near one of the cannons.
Plate 40
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 1

Date: 1864
Description: View looking out from one of the Confederate defenses around the outside of the city. Wooden palisades surround the earthworks. Houses and other buildings ...
Photograph

The Potter House Atlanta

Date: 1864
Description: View of heavily damaged house and felled trees after General Sherman's army passed through.
Plate 38
Photograph

Battlefield of Atlanta, GA July 22nd 1864 No. 2

Date: 1866
Description: An empty battlefield with posts sticking out from an earthworks in the foreground.
Plate 37
Photograph

Battlefield of Atlanta, GA July 22nd 1864 No. 1

Date: 1866
Description: An empty battlefield with debris among trees.
Plate 36
Photograph

Scene of Gen. McPherson's Death

Date: 1866
Description: A clearing in some trees with an animal skull where Union General McPherson died.
Plate 35
Photograph

The Battle Field of Peach Tree Creek, GA

Date: 1866
Description: The aftermath of the Battle of Peach Tree Creek. Union graves are in the foreground, with a field in the middle, and a forest in the background.
Plate 3...
Map or Atlas

Military Map Showing the Marches of the United States Forces Under Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman During the Years 1863, 1864, 1865

Date: 1865
Description: Detailed map of the southeastern United States showing fortifications, "movements of Genl. J.H. Wilson's Cavalry Corps," "pursuit of Hood" and the lines of...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Siege of Atlanta, Georgia, by the United States Forces Under Command of Maj. Genl. W.T. Sherman

Date: 
Description: This detailed map shows fortifications, headquarters, location and dates of battles, street outline of Atlanta, roads, railroads, vegetation, drainage, rel...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Military Operations in Front of Atlanta, Ga. : From the Passage of Peach Tree Creek, July 19th, 1864, to the Commencement of the Movement Upon the Enemy’s Lines of Communication, South of Atlanta, August 26th, 1864

Date: 1865
Description: This map shows fortifications, headquarters, and location and dates of battles. Relief is shown by hachures. A list of authorities is included. Blue lines ...

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