Burning of Atlanta, November 15, 1864, artist's impression, detail

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 5, 2015.
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engraving
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Yes
Original caption
Destruction of the Depots, Public Buildings, and Manufactories at Atlanta, Georgia, November 15, 1864.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, January 7, 1864, p. 4.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here. 

Burning of Atlanta, November 15, 1864, artist's impression, zoomable image

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Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College
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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 5, 2015.
Image type
engraving
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No
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Destruction of the Depots, Public Buildings, and Manufactories at Atlanta, Georgia, November 15, 1864.
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, January 7, 1864, p. 4.

"Is All Dem Yankees Dat's Passing?," January 7, 1865, Harper's Weekly Magazine

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cartoon
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No
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Yes
Original caption
"IS ALL DEM YANKEES DAT'S PASSING?" One of the most amusing as well most striking features of SHERMAN'S march through Georgia was the utter amazement of the people, black and white, of the hitherto unvisited regions through which the army passed, at the immense numbers of the "Yankees." Our Artist sends us a portrait from life of one of the "colored population," who watched, hour after hour, the endless column of Blue-Coats cheerily filing by the plantation, from which, probably, she was never ten miles in her life, and finally broke out: "Is all dem Yankee's dat's passing?" Another exclaimed, to a daughter of her master, "Law! Miss HATTIE, jess look dar in the road: dem Yankees like so many blackbirds!"
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, January 7, 1865, p. 16.

James Deering Fessenden, detail

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Library of Congress
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Cropped, sized, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 3, 2015.
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photograph
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No
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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Public
Original caption
James D. Fessenden USA
Source citation
Civil War Glass Negative Collection, Library of Congress

James Deering Fessenden

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, February 3, 2015.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
James D. Fessenden USA
Source citation
Civil War Glass Negative Collection, Library of Congress

The controversially captured raider C.S.S. Florida sinks off Norfolk, Virginia after a collision

The capture a few weeks earlier of the British-built Confederate raider C.S.S. Florida in neutral Brazilian waters had trigggered an international incident. The captured raider, held off Norfolk, Virginia was conveniently holded in a collision and sunk, thereby making moot any possible diplomatic ruling for her return to her Confederate owners. (By John Osborne)  
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In western Virginia, Union forces drive Confederates from entrenched positions at the Battle of Fisher's Hill

Retreating after fighting yet another battle at Winchester, Confederate General Jubal Early's heavily outnumbered forces took up strong defensive positions near Strasburg, Virginia.  Union General Sheridan's cavalry pressured their flanks and his Sixth and Twenty-Ninth Corps made a spirited infantry assault that broke the Confederate line.  Early was again forced to retreat having suffered more than a thousand casualties.  (By John Osborne)  
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