Civil War in Atlanta, 1864 Poster

Atlanta, Georgia newspaper the Daily Intelligencer office by the railroad depot. Nice Civil War photo with a locomotive, a spirits distributor and a sign that says 'Lager Deer'. Photograph by George N. Barnard, 1864. From LOC: "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 manoeuvring and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to abandon the munitions centre 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." LOC original medium: glass negative - wet collodion stereograph.