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File Name	shades_loc_0043.tif
Creator	Barnard, George [attributed]
Title	Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee
Date	1864
Genre	Photographs
Material/Technique	Stereographs; Glass negatives
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.
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.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Theme	Visualizing the War
Story	Orlando Poe
Geographic Location	United States -- Tennessee -- Knoxville
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.
Type	Still image
Format	image
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Archival file	shades11/shades_loc_0043.tif