Betcha haven’t seen this one!

By Stephen Davis · Originally published September 2019 · p. 25

Quick! What’s this view—a photograph taken by one of the Civil War’s most prominent cameramen? Chances are that you’ve seen a slightly different view of this same scene in • Francis Trevelyan Miller’s Photographic Views of the Civil War (1911), vol. 3, p. 135; • Lamont Buchanan, A Pictorial History of the Confederacy (1951), p. 243;

• William C. Davis, ed., The Image of War: 1861–1865 (1983), vol. 5, p. 292; or • Jeff L. Rosenheim, Photography and the American Civil War (2013), p. 210. Hint: it’s also in countless histories of the Atlanta Campaign. In the Brig. Gen. Clement Anselm Evans Memorial Research Collection—AKA my personal library at home—I found fifteen books in which the companion photograph has been published. But this one? Nada. We’re fortunate to have found it in the

Orlando M. Poe Collection at the U.S. Military Academy, its collection of George N. Barnard photographs. To our knowledge, it’s never been published… …until now, on page 112 of our new book, 100 Significant Photographs of the Civil War: Atlanta Campaign. The page is reproduced below. Editor’s note: we are delighted to announce that America’s Civil War is working with Steve Davis and Jack Melton to publish a dozen of the Barnard photographs shown in our book. The pictorial portfolio is scheduled for the magazine’s January 2020 issue.