by Barr & Young

CBS Interactive Inc., To catch the shadow: Photographers in occupied Vicksburg says: Among the first, if not the first, photographers to establish a gallery in Vicksburg after the siege was the team of D. P. Barr and J. W. Young, operating their business under the name Barr and Young, Army Photographers. Originally working at Fort Pickering, Memphis, the exact date Barr and Young moved to Vicksburg is not known but CDVs of Generals Ulysses S. Grant and John A. Logan with Vicksburg backmarks taken by the pair have a printed notation on the front that they were ‘Entered according to Act of Congress, A.D. 1863 by Barr & Young, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. District of Ohio.