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| Keywords: AtlantaNegroSalesLOC.jpg 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 Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/cwpb 03351 Largest resolution TIF image downloaded and lightly cropped to remove border but not print damaged secions and convereted to jpg before upload 1864 Picture taken by George N Barnard an American Civil War Army photographer PD-USGov Differently cropped lower resolution images from same source photo Image Slave Market-Atlanta Georgia 1864 jpg Image Atlanta1864 jpg PD-USGov cwpb 03351 1864 in the United States Atlanta in the 1860s Slavery in Georgia U S state George N Barnard | ||||
