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Wilderness # 4. View taken from the wilderness tarvern, Lacy house in distance

Battle line lay just another mile over the hill. "Inscription on verso: "Distant view of Lacy House from old wilderness tavern." Additional inscription on verso: "Wilderness # 4." Stamp of the Century Co. on verso. Numerical notation: "29" & [in...

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Wilderness # 29. The entrenchments in field

Inscription on verso: "The entrenchments in field at junction of Brock and Piney Branch Roads. " Image of a field with a road on the left of the image. A fence is barely visible on the far left of the image. Numeric notation: "83." Stamp of...

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Wilderness # 31. Confederate & federal entrenchments (Spotsylvania)

Inscription on verso: "Confederate and Federal entrenchments in which the opposing forces lay in close proximity for 24 hours. Field between the two in which Confederate General Edward Johnson was captured." One of the trees has a sign on it...

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Wilderness # 30. Confed. entrenchments near McCool's house (Spotsylvania)

Title from inscription on verso. Close view of tree with sign reading: "On fame's eternal camping ground their silent tents are spread & glory guards with solemn round the bivouac of the dead." Stamp of the century co. on verso. Inscription on...

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Wilderness # 42. Trees shattered by artillery

Inscription on verso: "Trees shattered by artillery near junction of old and new Cold Harbor roads."

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Wilderness # 24. Confed. entrenchments across Orange Plank Road

Title from inscription on verso. Image of a man standing near the side of the road. Shattered trees in the background and debris everywhere. Stamp of the century co. on verso.

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Orchard Knob from Mission Ridge, photo from nature by G.N. Barnard

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Two trees appear in sharp focus in foreground. The camera is elevated and shows a landscape of the terrain below the ridge. Orchard Knob was the site of a battle that took...

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The crest of Mission Ridge, photo from nature by G.N. Barnard

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Top of a hill with a road running across in the foreground. Landscape with a tree on the left and a tree stump on the right. Missionary Ridge had served as a Confederate...

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Battle ground of Resacca, Ga. No. 4

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Entrenchments in the foreground with distant view of small town or village. Wagon tracks criss-cross across the image. The sky has been double-printed. Resaca was the site of a...

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Buzzard Roost. Ga. Photo from nature by G.N. Barnard

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Large road in the foreground is littered with tree debris. Logs lie in piles on either side of the road. A man sits on a fallen tree trunk on the right side of the road...

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Mission Ridge from Orchard Knob

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Missionary Ridge visible in the distance. A brush-covered landscape occupies the area between the entrenchments and the ridge. Orchard Knob was the site of a battle that took...

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Scenes from the battle-field at Gettysburg. Residence of the old patriot who entered the Union lines during the battle with his musket and was wounded thrice. The figure on the porch is the old patriot.

The name "John Burns" is penciled in on the mount next to the printed title to indicate that he is the "old patriot" in question. View of John Burns's house, which is no longer standing, and surrounding buildings. Very sharp and clear view of the...

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Photographs of Battlefields, a list of Gardner's work.

A list of Gardner's photographs with titles and indications as to whether they were single or double. Seven pages are present- a cover page and table of contents [pages 12 through 17]. The total on the last page is 1176 photographs. Gardner gave the...

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Earthworks in front of Petersburg [Fort Norton]. [duplicate] [1864-1865 ca.]

Same image as #615, but the print is cut smaller. A man in civilian dress stands in the trench supported by logs and support beams. Inscription on top of image in Fay's handwriting: "Earthworks in front of Petersburg. Federal lines at Fort Norton. P...

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Dead soldier, with rifle, hat and canteen, Petersburg, Va. [1864-1865 ca.]

The soldier's head and torso are in the foreground. His hands are slighty raissed off the ground, in front of his shoulders. A rifle lies across his body, and his canteen and hat lie beside him on the right. Formerly part of H.W. Fay's ("Keeper of...

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Interior of earthworks at Petersburg, Va. [duplicate] [1864-1865 ca.]

Same image as #612 but the print is cut smaller. The image shows the interior of the earthworks at Petersburg. There is a now roofless wooden structure in the foreground next to the ruins of a chimney. A man in civilian clothes is visible just left...

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Interior of earthworks at Petersburg, Va. [duplicate] [1864-1865 ca.]

The image shows the interior of the earthworks at Petersburg. There is a now roofless wooden structure in the foreground next to the ruins of a chimney. A man in civilian clothes is visible just left of the center of the image. The numbers "1071"...

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General Sherman and staff at Federal Fort No. 7, Atlanta, Ga. [1/2 stereocard] [1864 ca.]

The image is half of a stereocard. Caption below: "3626. General Sherman and staff." Above: "at Atlanta." The officers form a half circle around a heavy artillery cannon [Parot rifle]. Sherman leans on the breach of the gun. Two men stand in front...

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Earthworks in front of Petersburg [Fort Norton]. [duplicate] [1864-1865 ca.]

A man in civilian dress stands in the trench supported by logs and support beams. Inscription on top of image in Fay's handwriting: "Earthworks in front of Petersburg. Federal lines at Fort Norton. P.46." The numbers "1069" and "388" do not appear...

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Confederate dead on Rose Farm, Gettysburg, Pa. [July 5, 1863]

Inscription on image: "After first [inserted: day of] battle at Gettysburg." Photographer's labels were often incorrect [sometimes intentionally], and this is such a case. The image is actually of Confederate dead on the Rose farm, which was the...

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Long line of Confederate dead on Antietam battlefied, Md. [September 19, 1862 ca.]

Taken by Gardner. The image shows a long line of Confederate dead starting in the center foreground and continuing off into the background in a wide arc. Frassantio believes the location to be near the Mumma farm. Graphite numeric notation, "49" in...

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Fortress Monroe, as seen through a tree-lined, brick path. [1861-1865 ca.]

A tree-lined path, with a man near the middle of the path, leading to the large Fortress Monroe, Va. Inscription on verso: "Avenue Fortress Monroe." Numeric Notation on verso: "49."

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Brick path inside Fortress Monroe, Va.

Man sitting to the left of the road, a boy standing against a tree, and two men and a boy sitting in the left middleground. "Ghost" image on far right--standing man [an effect that ocurred when a person was moving while the picture was being taken]...

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Courthouse in Petersburg, Virginia.

A View of the Petersburg, Virginia courthouse, with the Treadway and Johnson Stove warehouse on the right side of the image. A sign on the buidling mentions "tin ware" and wood. Inscription on verso: "Courthouse Petersburg,Va." Numeric Notation on...

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Ruins of Mumma house, Antietam battlefield, Md. [September 19-20, 1862 ca.]

Although inscription on verso reads, "Ruins of Summit House," the image is clearly of the Mumma homestead at Sharpsburg [Antietam], Md. The image has also been identified by Frassanito in his book "Antietam" as "Ruins of the Mumma house" and was...

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