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Title: Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Eaton, Edward Bailey Brady, Mathew B., ca. 1823-1896 Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959. Martyrs on altar of civilization
Subjects: Eaton, Edward Bailey War photography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : E.B. Eaton
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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eenth of July. On the nine-teenth, the troops were so near At-lanta, and were meeting such feebleresistance that it was supposed theConfederates were evacuating, untilthey poured out of their entrench-ments and opened furious fire on thenorth side of Peach Tree Creek.The war cameras were busily en-gaged and one of the negatives is anabandoned Confederate fortificationon the road leading to Atlanta. Acamera was taken into this fortshortly after its capture by Sherman.It shows the extent to which the Con-federates had protected themselves.It is one of the rare pictures in whichchevaux-de-frise construction isshown. It is here seen that the de-fense is a temporary obstruction byplacing rails in a row with their point-ed ends directed against the enemy.They impeded the advance of the foeand afforded cover for the defenders.During the conquest of Georgia theConfederates were much awed by theBrady what is it ? wagons. It isthe first time that field photographywas witnessed in the far South.
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PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT A CONFEDERATE FORT ON MARIETTA ROAD, NEAR ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AFTER CAPTURE BY SHERMAN, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864

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