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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
Photograph

Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman

Date: 1864
Description: Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain....
Photograph

Fort Crawford

Date: 1864
Description: Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho...
Photograph

View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
Print

Prison for Confederate Soldiers at Rock Island

Date: 1864
Description: Aerial view, probably from a lithograph, of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island.
Print

Andersonville Prison

Date: 1864
Description: "Andersonville Prison, Camp Sumter, Ga., as it appeared August 1st 1864 when it contained 35,000 prisoners of war."
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.
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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. 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

Pass in the Raccoon Range Whiteside No. 2

Date: 1864
Description: View down hillside of Union soldiers standing in front of a group of tents. There is a valley and mountains in the distance.
Plate 07
Photograph

Pass in the Raccoon Range Whiteside No. 1

Date: 1864
Description: Union soldiers stand by their tents in front of a trestle bridge on the railroad line that spans a valley. A mountain is in the background.
Plate 06
Photograph

Whiteside Valley Below the Bridge

Date: 1864
Description: View down to valley of Union soldiers posing on the roof of a log building. A log bridge crosses a stream, and many trees are on the hillsides.
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Map or Atlas

Battlefields in front of Nashville where the United States forces ... defeated and routed the rebel army ... December 15th & 16th 1864; surveyed and drawn ... by M. Peseux

Date: 1864
Description: (U.S. 39th Cong. 1stt Sess. Report of Chief engineer) The legend in the upper left corner contains a brief resume of each day's action while the map sho...
Map or Atlas

Map of the country in the vicinity of Todd’s Tavern with the position of the 2nd Army of the Potomac, May 8th, 1864

Date: 1864
Description: This map depicts the battlefield at Todd's Tavern, Va., the site of a battle on May 7-8, 1864. Depicted are roads, houses, drainage, vegetation and troop p...
Map or Atlas

Gettysburg and Vicinity : Constructed and Engraved to Illustrate "The War with the South" : A Topographical Map of the Battles of Gettysburg, July 1st, 2nd & 3rd, 1863

Date: 1864
Description: This map of the Battle of Gettysburg indicates Union positions in red and Confederate positions in blue. Also shown are artillery positions, roads, railroa...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing Route of Marches of the Army of Gen. W.T. Sherman from Atlanta, Ga. to Goldsboro, N.C.

Date: 1864
Description: This map shows the routes of the cavalry and of the 14th, 15th, 17th, and 20th Army Corps Atlanta, Ga., to Goldsboro, N.C., during February and March, 1865...
Map or Atlas

Map Illustrating the Siege of Atlanta, Ga. By U.S. Forces

Date: 1864
Description: This map of the Atlanta area shows entrenchments, relief by hachures, vegetation, drainage, roads, railroads, towns, and the names of a few residents in th...
Map or Atlas

Map Showing the Operations of the National Forces Under the Command of Maj. Gen. W. T. Sherman During the Campaign Resulting in the Capture of Atlanta. Georgia

Date: 1864
Description: This map of northwestern Georgia shows dates and troop positions between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Jonesboro, Georgia, May-September, 1864. Wisconsin uni...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Battle Fields of North Anna Showing the Field of Operations of the Army of the Potomac

Date: 1864
Description: This map of the battlefield on the North Anna River at Hanover Junction illustrates the Union positions in blue and Confederate positions in red. Roads, ra...
Map or Atlas

Bacon’s New War Map Showing 50 Miles Round Richmond

Date: 1864
Description: This colored map shows cities, rail lines, and geographic features in eastern Virginia. Circles around Richmond at 10 mile intervals indicate distances fro...

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