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Citations: Primary Source of Material in Sign Texts: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume 38 Citations: Base Map: Northern Alabama and Georgia 1864; H. Lindenkohl and Charles G. Krebs, Lithographers; U.S. Coast Survey Office, U.S. Engineers, Military Division of the Mississippi courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. Photos of Major General William T. Sherman, General Joseph E. Johnston, General John Bell Hood, and Major General George Stoneman courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. Photo of Brigadier General Edward M. McCook courtesy of U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, U.S. Army Military History Institute, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) Massachusetts, Civil War Photograph Collection, Vol. 74: 3678 Base Map: Northern Alabama and Georgia 1864; H. Lindenkohl and Charles G. Krebs, Lithographers; U.S. Coast Survey Office, U.S. Engineers, Military Division of the Mississippi courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. “The Bugle Call – From the painting by William Hunt” Battles “Railroad Destruction” by A.R. and Leaders of the Civil War, Waud, Harper’s Weekly, July 30, Robert Underwood Johnson and 1864; courtesy of Hargrett Rare Clarence Clough Buel, eds; vol. 1, New York: Century Company Book and Manuscript Library, Primary source of material in sign texts: 1887‐1888 University of Georgia Libraries Official Records of the Union and “Canvas pontoon bridge across the “Confederate Cavalry” Confederate Armies, Series I Volume 38 North Anna River” by T.H. by A.R. Waud, Harper’s O’Sullivan, May 1864; courtesy In Five Parts; Part II, III, V “Reports”, Weekly, September 27, 1862; Library of Congress, Civil War Glass Washington: Government Printing Office, courtesy of Hargrett Rare Negatives and Related Prints, Prints 1891 Book and Manuscript Library, and Photographs Online Catalog University of Georgia Libraries Eight (8) sign texts courtesy of David Evans “Confederate Supply Wagons Parked Near Fayetteville Georgia”, Harper’s Weekly, September 3, 1864 page 564; courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries Base Map: 1864 Manuscript Map, National Archives Record Group 77, Civil Works Map File, N221‐2 Photos of General Joseph Wheeler and Brigadier General William H. “Red” Jackson courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. Battles and Leaders of the “Cavalry Fight at Yellow Civil War, Robert Underwood Tavern” by Edwin Forbes, The Johnson and Clarence Clough Soldier in Our Civil War, vol. II Buel, eds; 4 vols, New York: by Frank Leslie, Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, Century Company 1887‐1888 1893. Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, Robert Underwood Centennial Magazine, Johnson and Clarence Clough Newnan Times‐Herald, Buel, eds; 4 vols, New York: December 1965, p. 142. Century Company 1887‐1888 Used by permission. “Cavalry Raid” by Edwin Forbes in Thirty Years After: An Artist's Story of the Great War, Told, and Illustrated with Nearly 300 Relief‐Etchings After Sketches in the Field, and 20 Half‐Tone Equestrian Portraits from Original Oil Paintings, New York, Fords, Howard & Hulbert, 1890; courtesy of David Evans Photo of Colonel Henry M. Ashby courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. Photo of Lieutenant Colonel William H. Torrey, Wisconsin Veterans Museum, used by permission Photo of Brigadier General Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, The Confederate Veteran, August 1903; courtesy of David Evans “In the Van”, Battles and Drawing of dismounted Leaders of the Civil War, cavalry by Walter Taber Robert Underwood Johnson courtesy of Heritage and Clarence Clough Buel, eds; 4 vols, New York: Century Auctions Company 1887‐1888 Both images from So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego by Joseph P. Eckhardt , James A. Michener The Pursuit “A Cavalry Attack” by Thomas Art Museum, University of Nast, Harper’s Weekly, May 30, Pennsylvania Press courtesy of 1863 page 143; courtesy of the James A. Michener Art Hargrett Rare Book and Museum Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries The Pell Mell Charge Photo of Colonel James P. Brownlow courtesy of U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, Military History Institute, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS) Massachusetts, Civil War Photograph Collection, Vol. 69:3404 Photo of Brigadier General Robert H. Anderson courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. “Army of the Potomac‐Buckland, Scene of a cavalry skirmish with Stuart” by A.R. Waud, Harper’s Weekly, November 14, 1863, page 723; courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries “Colonel Brownlow on a Picket Hunt” by Theodore R. Davis, Harper’s Weekly, August 13, 1864, page 575; courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries “The Army of the Potomac‐Colonel Wyndham’s Cavalry on a Reconnoissance”, by A.R. Waud, Harper’s Weekly, March 28, 1863, page 201; courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries Photo of Fannie Beers from Memories: A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Mrs. Fannie A. Beers, Press of J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1891 courtesy Google Books Andersonville Prison, GA, August 17, 1864 “Issuing “Confederate Hospital” rations from main gate”; courtesy Library of courtesy Civil War Glass Congress Prints and Negatives & Prints, Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Washington D.C. “Last train out of Atlanta, September 1864” courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington D.C. “Company G 8th Iowa “Terry’s Texas Rangers Volunteer Cavalry”, courtesy Company C”, Panhandle‐ U.S. Army Heritage and Plains Historical Museum, Education Center, Civil War used by permission Photographs Database, Collection RG98s‐Civil War Photos8.35 The Photographic History of the Civil War In Ten Volumes by Francis T. Miller, The Review of Reviews Co., New York, 1911 courtesy of Google Books History of the Wheeler Monument courtesy of United Daughters of the Confederacy Newnan Chapter 599 and David Evans .
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