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Also Known As George Norman Barnard
Born December 23, 1819 • Coventry • Connecticut
Died February 4, 1902 (aged 82) • New York

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Union troops southwest of Atlanta
William Tecumseh Sherman and his staff
American Civil War: Manassas, Virginia
Ruins of Charleston, South Carolina, photograph by George N. Barnard, c. 1865.
View of Atlanta, Georgia; photograph by George Barnard.On September 1, 1864, Union General William Sherman took Atlanta with small losses. Atlanta was a small city but an important railhead and supply center for the South; beyond its military importance, its capture assured Lincolns reelection. In November Sherman left Atlanta, now little more than a smoking ruin, and began his three-hundred-mile march to Savannah, destroying all possible military resources in his path.
American Civil War: Peninsular Campaign
Nashville, Tennessee
Bull Run, Virginia
Confederate fort on Peach Tree Street in Atlanta, Georgia
Bull Run, Virginia
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