Titled The Confederate Defences Protecting Atlanta, Taken in 1864. This 1910 dated photographic print was part of an advertising portfolio especially done to promote the soon to be published, monumental 10 volume work titled, "The Photographic History of the Civil War," Francis T. Miller, editor in chief. The book set was issued in 1911 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the start of the Civil War. Overall size is 11 x 12 1/8, image size is 7 1/2 x 9 1/2. Imprint below the image, Copyright, 1910, by the Patriot Publishing Co., Springfield, Mass. From the Photographic History of the Civil War, Published by Review of Reviews Co.

Includes the following descriptive text below the image: Sherman's soldiers charged and bombarded the city and its defences from July 20 to September 1. That day the Confederate General Hood realized that his brave resistance was useless. He withdrew, Sherman entered the next day, and the great supply depot of the Confederacy had fallen. The spot where this solitary sentinel sits is now in Peachtree Street in Atlanta, within sight of a 16 story office building. A stately city looks back on that scene, wild in 1864, with fighting and destruction. Even the sawed logs of the casemates have their story. Remember that every lumber mill in the South was kept busy supplying logs to the army from the beginning to the end of the war, all without pay, or for a currency worth little in gold. Few besides soldiers themselves have known that Brady's cameras made records of Confederate positions as well as Union. They penetrated to spots where death impended momentarily. Brady himself remarked after the war; "Many of these negatives almost cost me my life."

Excellent condition.