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Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee showing bastion which was assaulted on the morning of Nov. 29, 1863

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File Name	shades_loc_0028.tif
Creator	Barnard, George N.
Title	Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tennessee showing bastion which was assaulted on the morning of Nov. 29, 1863
Alternate Title	Babcock, Orville and Orlando Poe at Knoxville
Date	1864-03-24
Genre	Photographs
Description	Poe and Babcock are shown in the foreground against a landscape decimated by the battle of Fort Sanders.
Historical note	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. Orlando Poe and Orville Babcock were West Point graduates and engineers. Poe worked under Gen. Ambrose Burnside in Knoxville, Tennessee, to fortify the city after it was occupied by Federal troops in September 1863. Babcock served as an aide to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
Subject	United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields--Tennessee--Knoxville.
Theme	Visualizing the War
Story	Orlando Poe
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Fort Sanders (Knoxville); 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.
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,42
Archival file	shades11/shades_loc_0028.tif