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File Details: ALOWm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 45.1 Mb

Image ID: ALOW

Credit:

by Cooley (Samuel A.)

Date:

1864.12

Negative Size:

4 in. x 6.5 in. stereo

Equipment:

sabot; solid shot; wheelbarrow

Locations & Lines:

Fort McAllister GA; Georgia; Savannah GA

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress

Library of Congress says: Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Sherman’s troops removing ammunition from Fort McAllister in wheelbarrows. 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.

Anthony No. 3503.

Etched onto negative: 3503.

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