[George N. Barnard (1819-1902)]. Sherman and His Generals. Albumen silver print. ca 1865. Subjects identified by ink inscription to mount recto lower margin. 

An iconic photograph of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, seated at center, taken just after the conclusion of the war. 

Standing behind, left to right: Oliver Otis Howard, William Babcock Hazen, Jefferson C. Davis, and Joseph A. Mower.

Seated left to right: John A. Logan, WIlliam Tecumseh Sherman, Henry Warner Slocum, and Francis P. Blair.

Published in Barnard's monumental 1866 work, Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. An early daguerreotypist and colleague of Matthew Brady, George N. Barnard (1819-1902), was the only photographer to accompany General Sherman during his famous “March to the Sea.” As the official photographer of the Military Division of the Mississippi, Barnard operated under the command of General Sherman.

An important portrait of the men who executed Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, March to the Sea, and Carolinas Campaign. The victories in these campaigns led directly to Abraham Lincoln's reelection and thus ensured the war would continue, resulting in the eventual Union victory and the universal emancipation of enslaved African Americans.

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