Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee
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File Name |
shades_loc_0043.tif |
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Creator |
Barnard, George [attributed] |
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Title |
Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee |
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Date |
1864 |
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Genre |
Photographs |
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Material/Technique |
Stereographs; Glass negatives |
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Description |
This black and white image depicts a tree-stump studded landscape with trench and ramped earth fortification. A section of wooden railing is visible atop the earth mound at right. |
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Historical note |
The landscape in the foreground is now thought by scholars to show a portion of Fort Sanders. It was long thought to have been taken by photographer Sam A. Cooley, of Fort McAllister, South Carolina (near Savannah, GA) because the negative was found in a sleeve labeled Fort McAllister. However, since Cooley is not recorded as having been in Tennessee, the photograph has been attributed to George Barnard, who, as chief photographer for the U.S. Army's topographical engineers, was headquartered in Tennessee in 1863 and 186. |
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Subject |
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 |
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Theme |
Visualizing the War |
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Story |
Orlando Poe |
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Geographic Location |
United States -- Tennessee -- Knoxville |
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Time period |
1860-1869 |
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Language |
eng |
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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. |
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Type |
Still image |
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Format |
image |
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Contributing Institution |
Library of Congress |
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Digital Publisher |
Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University |
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Archival file |
shades11/shades_loc_0043.tif |
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