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Georgia Civil War Photographs
 
Photographs and Images
of Georgia in the Civil War


Georgians

Pvt. Sampson Altman, Jr., Co. C, 29th Regiment Georgia Volunteers, C.S.A.

 
 
Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon, C.S.A. (in uniform) (from National Archives)


Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon, C.S.A. (in civilian dress) (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
 
Capt. Matthew T. Nunnally and 1st Sgt. Josiah E. Nunnally, 11th Ga. Infantry, C.S.A.

Alexander Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederacy (from National Archives)

Lt. Gen. James Longstreet in Civilian Dress (National Archives)




Non-Georgians
 
Conf. Gen. John B. Hood, CSA (in uniform) (personal collection of Ed Jackson)
 
 
 
Union Maj. Gen. James McPherson (in uniform) (enhanced Library of Congress image)
 
Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA (in uniform) (Library of Congress)
 
 
 
 

Events and Places

1860

Secession demonstration in Savannah, Nov. 8, 1860 (Lithograph)

1861




1862



Fort Pulaski, exterior view

Fort Pulaski , interior view of front parapet (Library of Congress)

Fort Pulaski, interior view of rear parapet (Library of Congress)

Fort Pulaski, interior view of the breach (Library of Congress)

Fort Pulaski, the "Beauregard" Gun (Library of Congress)

Fort Pulaski, dismounted mortar, Savannah, April 1862 (Library of Congress)

Fort Pulaski, after capture by Union


1863


Lee and Gordon's Mills, Chickamauga Battlefield, 1863 (National Archives)

Union battery at drill, Ringgold, 1863 (National Archives)


1864

 
Battle of Rocky Face Ridge ( two engravings)
 
Battle of Resaca, 1864 (Color lithograph)
 
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (Color lithograph)

 
Battle of Atlanta, 1864 (Color lithograph)




Atlanta, Ga. Confederate palisades, on north side of city, 1864 (Library of Congress)
Atlanta, Ga. Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street, with wagon train, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Chevaux-de-frise on Marietta St.; photographic wagons and darkroom beyond (Library of Congress)

Confederate palisades and chevaux-de-frise near Potter house, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Gen. Sherman on horseback at Federal Fort No. 7, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Gen. Sherman, leaning on breach of gun, and staff at Federal Fort No. 7, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Union soldiers by gun in captured fort, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Union pickets near Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Shell-damaged Potter house, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Railroad depot, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Ruins of railroad depot, destroyed upon Sherman's departure (Library of Congress)

Union soldiers on boxcars at railroad depot, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Boxcars with refugees at railroad depot, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Atlanta Intelligencer office by railroad depot, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

View on Decatur St. showing Trout House and Masonic Hall, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Railroad depot and yard with Trout House and Masonic Hall in background, Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Trout House, Masonic Hall, and Union encampment on Decatur St., Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

2d Mass. Infantry on grounds of Atlanta City Hall, 1864 (Library of Congress)

"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall St., Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Whitehall St., Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)
 

Union prisoners in Andersonville Prison, Aug. 1864 (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Computer enhanced version of photo (176 k)


Wagon train on Marietta St., Atlanta, 1864 (Library of Congress)
Yankee Occupation of Atlanta

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Confederate gun at Fort McAllister, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Sherman's troops removing ammunition from Fort McAllister in wheelbarrows, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Interior view of Fort McAllister, 14 miles south of the city; the Ogeechee River beyond, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Fort McAllister; another view, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Army engineers removing 8-inch Columbiad gun from Fort McAllister, 1864 (Library of Congress)


Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Federal soldiers with big gun at Fort McAllister, 1864 (Library of Congress)

Savannah, Ga., vicinity. Signal station on the Ogeechee at Fort McAllister, 1864 (Library of Congress)

"Rebels Evacuating Savannah, Harper's Weekly

 

1865

Signalmen of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren's flagship receiving a message from the Georgia shore (exact location and date unknown)  (Library of Congress)



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