. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT A CONFEDERATE FORT ON MARIETTA ROAD, NEAR ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AFTER CAPTURE BY SHERMAN, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864. WHILE Shermans Armywas literally standing atthe gates of Atlanta, thisphotograph was great general was with his staffin a Federal fort on the outlying was leaning on the breech of thecannon in one of his most characteris-tic attitudes. At this time Shermanwas forty-four years of age. Whensixteen years old he had entered WestPoint as a cadet, through the influ-e
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN AT A CONFEDERATE FORT ON MARIETTA ROAD, NEAR ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AFTER CAPTURE BY SHERMAN, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864. WHILE Shermans Armywas literally standing atthe gates of Atlanta, thisphotograph was great general was with his staffin a Federal fort on the outlying was leaning on the breech of thecannon in one of his most characteris-tic attitudes. At this time Shermanwas forty-four years of age. Whensixteen years old he had entered WestPoint as a cadet, through the influ-ence of his father, who was a Su-preme Court judge in Ohio. Attwenty years of age he entered theUnited States regular army and dur-ing the Mexican War was engagedin service in California. When thirty-three years of age, Sherman resignedfrom the army and became Presidentof the State Military Institute ofLouisiana. At the outbreak of theCivil War he left the South andoffered his services to the Union. I [ewas a colonel at the Battle of BullRun. After that battle, when theNorthern Army was reorganized,Sherman was appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers and command-ed the Department of the Cumber-land. He demande
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