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Stephens Bluff on the Black Warrior River, taken from the Steamer Lily, May 14, 1864

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Stephens Bluff on the Black Warrior River, taken from the Steamer Lily, May 14, 1864

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File Name	shades_adah_0003.tif
Creator	Gutherz, Frederick G.
Title	Stephens Bluff on the Black Warrior River, taken from the Steamer Lily, May 14, 1864
Alternate Title	Gutherz drawing
Date	1864-05-14
Genre	Drawings
Material/Technique	Pencil
Description	A grouping of buildings is situated on top of a bluff. Vegetation is sparse with a few trees and shrubs.
Historical note	Carl Gutherz's older brother Fred joined the 154th Senior Tennessee Volunteer Regiment as an army engineer for the CSA. Fred later served with the Confederate forces fighting Sherman in North Georgia in 1864. The Steamer Lily was a side-wheel steamboat that transported troops through Alabama during the Civil War. Here it transports Fred and other Confederate soldiers down the Black Warrior River, which runs from a forested area of high bluffs at the extreme southern end of the Appalachian Mountains to the suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Art and the war
Subject (TGM)	Buildings Rivers
Theme	Visualizing the War
Story	Samuel Bell Palmer
Geographic Location	United States--Alabama
Time period	1860-1869
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History
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 Alabama Dept. of Archives and History.
Identifier	Q26186
Credit line	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
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,28
Archival file	shades3/shades_adah_0003.tif