Barnard, George N., 1819-1902 Mission Ridge from Orchard Knob

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GLC#
GLC05111.01.0462-View header record
Type
Images
Date
circa 1864
Author/Creator
Barnard, George N., 1819-1902
Title
Mission Ridge from Orchard Knob
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 albumen : b&w Height: 40.9 cm, Width: 51.2 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Page removed from the album "Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign." Missionary Ridge visible in the distance. A brush-covered landscape occupies the area between the entrenchments and the ridge. Orchard Knob was the site of a battle that took place on November 23, 1863. Confederate soldiers had been stationed on the Knob, but were pushed back to Missionary Ridge upon the advance of about 14,000 Union soldiers. Union soldiers seized Missionary Ridge from Confederate control on November 25, 1863, and held it as a logistics base for General William T. Sherman's 1864 campaigns through Atlanta.

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