Image: Fort-sanders-babcock-poe-1863-tn1

Description: Engineers O.E. Babcock (left) and Orlando Poe (right) at Fort Sanders in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, shortly after the failed Confederate assault on the fort. The inscription on the left reads: "Ft. Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn.: Showing salient assaulted by Longstreet's forces Nov. 29th 1863.
Title: Fort-sanders-babcock-poe-1863-tn1
Credit: Photograph from Library of Congress, cropped from stereo view by Hal Jespersen. TITLE: Ft. Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., showing saliant assaulted by Longstreets forces, Novr. 29th 1863 CALL NUMBER: LOT 13464, no. 1 [P&P] Check for an online group record (may link to related items) REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-stereo-1s01387 (digital file from original photograph, front) LC-DIG-stereo-2s01387 (digital file from original photograph, back) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Photograph shows U. S. Engineers O.E. Babcock, left, seated on a tree stump, and O. M. Poe, right, standing on a war damaged salient in Fort Sanders. MEDIUM: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. NOTES: Title from item. No. 27. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe. Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs Division
Author: Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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