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Title: Scene of Gen. McPherson's death
Creator: Barnard, George N., 1819-1902, photographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1864
1866
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: A wooded area near Atlanta, Georgia, that was the site of the death of Union General James Birdseye McPherson in 1864. There is a horse skeleton on the left in front of a tall tree.
Similar image can be found in Barnard's Photographic views of Sherman's campaign, plate 33.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 print : albumen ; image 27 x 35.8 cm (10 5/8 x 14 1/8 in.) ; overall 32.7 x 40.3 cm (12 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
Identifier: photCL 309 (30)
393215
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/5188
Language: English
Subject: McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864--Death & burial
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Battlefields
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Place: Atlanta (Ga.)
Source: John P. Nicholson Collection: Civil War Photographs.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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