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Looking Down the Valley of Running Water Creek Near Whitesides, Tenn -1864- Nashville and Chattanooga R. R. Bridge on the Left

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File Name	shades_loc_0029.tif
Creator	Barnard, George N. (1819-1902)
Title	Looking Down the Valley of Running Water Creek Near Whitesides, Tenn -1864- Nashville and Chattanooga R. R. Bridge on the Left
Alternate Title	Looking Down Near Whitesides, Nashville & Chattanooga RR Bridge on the Left
Date	1864
Genre	Photographs
Material/Technique	Albumen prints; Panoramic photographs
Dimensions	11" x 29"
Image Note	verso: "Running Water Bridge & Raccoon Valley between Chattanooga, Tenn. & Bridgeport, Ala."
Description	View of wooden railroad bridge and military encampment.
Historical note	Panoramic view of railroad bridge and encampment outside of Chattanooga. Col. James Whiteside was a Chattanooga industrialist and one of the main supporters of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, which was completed in 1854. Barnard was a photographer in the Topographical Branch of the Department of Engineers, Army of the Cumberland, United States Army. He traveled to Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga in 1864. Captain Orlando M. Poe had sent Barnard to Chattanooga in early February 1864 to document the landscape, during which time he focused on railroads, battlefields and on the Lookout Mountain area. The bridge near Whitesides was considered a highly strategic location. The bridge had been constructed some months prior to this photograph by Federal army engineers. Note the defensive blockhouse in the foreground.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation; Railroads
Theme	Visualizing the War Taking Care of Business Walking a Fine Line
Story	Orlando Poe Perez Dickinson James Cameron
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Chattanooga
Time period	1860-1869
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Library of Congress
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Library of Congress.
Identifier	LC-USZ62-115234 (b&w film copy neg.)
Credit line	Panoramic photographs (Library of Congress) Visual materials from the papers of O.M. Poe
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,111
Archival file	shades11/shades_loc_0029.tif