The American Civil War was the first war in w
both sides widely used entrenchments, repeati rifles, ironclad warships, and telegraphed communications. It was also the first America War to be extensively photographed. Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner and Timothy O’Sulliv are famous for having made iconic photographs
in the Civil War’s eastern theater. George N.
Barnard deserves to be ranked in this top tie
theater. A civilian photographer hired by Gen
pictures of fortifications around Atlanta, Ba
took several hundred of them in and around th
of Union Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson’s death
the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864. Thus fa comprehensive, definitive listing has been ma of the photographer’s work. For this book we chosen a hundred images we deem “significant.
for telltale clues. One of the most important e in the center, which Confederates had left
hief engineer in Hood’s army, called try for August 14, 1864, he remarked on , however, never assaulted the Confederate
