- Collection:
- Civil War
- Title:
- [Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun from Fort McAllister]
- Publisher:
- [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889]
- Date of Original:
- 1861
- Subject:
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- albumen prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Description:
- Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman at the sea, December 1864. After marching through Georgia for a month, Sherman stormed Fort McAllister on December 13, 1864 and captured Savannah itself 8 days later. These seven views are limited to the former stronghold and its dismantling preparatory to Sherman's further movement northward. This operation was ordered on December 24, and Gen. William B. Hazen [2d Division, 15th Corps] and Maj. Thomas W. Osborn, Chief of Artillery, had it completed by December 29, storing the guns at Fort Pulaski.
No. B623.
Title from item.
Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. - Local Identifier:
- LOT 4172-E (Georgia), no. 2 [P&P]
2012649049
ppmsca 33121 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.33121
LC-DIG-ppmsca-33121 (digital file from original item) - Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/2012649049/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 photographic print on card mount : albumen.
- Original Collection:
- Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)
- Holding Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
-
