He'll be comin' to Atlanta...

[18thVirginia]

Another of our photo threads of important cities in the Civil War. Atlanta.

Atlanta, Georgia Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street, with wagon train

 

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Atlanta View on Marietta Street

 

[18thVirginia]

Federal army wagons and railroad depot, Barnard.

 

[Chattahooch33]

Another of our photo threads of important cities in the Civil War. Atlanta.

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Atlanta, Georgia Northward view across the tracks on Whitehall Street, with wagon train

Today, roughly. Barnard took his picture from the top of the Atlanta Intellegencer building.

 

[Chattahooch33]

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Federal army wagons and railroad depot Barnard.

Today, the street level is a good 20' higher than it was then.

The old railroad gulch was bridged at several places after the war. Eventually plazas were built connecting the bridges which basically created a new level of the town and the ground where the track is became "Underground Atlanta".

 

[Chattahooch33]

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Atlanta View on Marietta Street

Today you can still see the hill but it's been flattened over time. The roundhouse in the Barnard photo out in the distance is where the Georgia World Congress Center and CNN Center is now.

 

[18thVirginia]

Cool, Chattahooch33.

Thanks so much for helping us know where things are today.

 

[18thVirginia]

Peachtree Street, 1866

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wb4kdi/Military Service/Confederates/Atlanta/Peachtree St 1866.jpg

 

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View on Decatur Street, showing Trout House and Masonic Hall

http://www.old-picture.com/pics/civil-war/006/Decatur-Street-showing-Masonic.htm

 

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Federal officers standing in front of house. (Formerly headquarters of General John Bell Hood.)
http://www.old-picture.com/pics/civil-war/006/Atlanta-Georgia-officers-standing.htm

 

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Railroad Depot, Barnard, 1864.

http://www.old-picture.com/pics/civil-war/001/Atlanta-Georgia-Railroad-depot.htm

 

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Soldiers on boxcars at railroad depot, Barnard, 1864.

http://www.old-picture.com/pics/civil-war/001/Atlanta-Soldiers-railroad-boxcars.htm

 

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Federal pickets before the city. Barnard, 1864.

http://www.old-picture.com/pics/civil-war/004/vicinity-Georgia-Atlanta-Federal.htm

 

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Tents of the 2nd Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers on the grounds of Atlanta City Hall, 1864

http://collections.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/athpc&CISOPTR=1094

 

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View of Public Square, Atlanta.
http://cdm.georgiaarchives.org:2011/cdm/singleitem/collection/adhoc/id/72

 

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Atlanta House, 1864
http://www.old-picture.com/pics/civil-war/001/Southern-Home.htm

"This unidentified house is simply noted by George N. Barnard as Atlanta. There are two scenes of the residence; this is the closer view. In addition to the war's impact on the residents, houses, and transportation and other facilities of Atlanta, the environmental impact was heavy. Thousands of trees were leveled as the surrounding woods became a clear cut. As the land was denuded, the lumber from the trees was used to construct a ring of defensive fortifications encircling the city, as well as simply opening up the land to have a clear view of the approaching Union Army. Colonel Lemuel P. Grant was the engineer who designed and constructed Atlanta's defense works. A witness wrote of the landscape surrounding Atlanta: "Many trees had fallen by the army-woodsman's ax, and those left standing were but the shattered remnants of their former selves. The woods and fields were strewn with the bodies of dead and decaying animals."

http://www.atlantapreservationcenter.com/Preserved_on_Glass

 

[KansasFreestater]

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Federal army wagons and railroad depot Barnard.

I have to admit the "Gone With the Wind" movie people didn't do too bad a job recreating that area by the depot.

 

[Allie]

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Federal officers standing in front of house. (Formerly headquarters of General John Bell Hood.)
http://www.old-picture.com/pics/civil-war/006/Atlanta-Georgia-officers-standing.htm

What a funny old lurcher of a horse in the background - he's built like a moose!

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Atlanta RR Depot ( and forgive me if I repeat any 18th has already posted please? It's not like these lovely old things are burning the eyes anyway, worth a second look. )

Something called the ' Trout House ' and Masonic Hall

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

This is in LoC just as ' Atlanta Street', I am more than sure members here know exactly which church this would have been?


Battlefield, Atlanta- only posting this in contrast to the amazing old buildings, how stark.

I was handed down the copy of my grgrgraunt's guide book for the Atlanta Cotton Exposition not a huge amount of years post-war. She was one of the representatives from New York. It's a great book- goes into the before/after on the war pretty intensely. You can't believe this city was once damaged at all much less economically challenged. The governor, mayor and various bigwigs give speeches which are recorded- gosh, you can see how proud they are of what Atlanta had become.