Image: AtlantaNegroSalesLOC

Description: Scene in Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. Note building with sign reading "Auction & Negro Sales", a slave trade business. 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.
Title: AtlantaNegroSalesLOC
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division: [1]. Largest resolution TIF image, downloaded and lightly cropped to remove border but not print damaged secions, and convereted to .jpg before upload.
Author: Picture taken by George N. Barnard, an American Civil War, Army photographer.
Permission: PD-USGov
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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