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Infantry Company in Formation, Chattanooga Navy Yard

Description: Image of a union infantry company standing in formation. A rock filled patch cleared ground dominates the foreground. In the background are various buildings and a long wooden fence.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1863-1864
Call number: photCL 491
Creator: Bonsall, I. H (1833-1909)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Boland, December 2008.; Purchased for the Huntington from the Andrew Smith Gallery by the Library Collectors' Council, January 2009.

The Navy Yard Chattanooga Tenn Capt. Slayton's Mill

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Image of the Union Navy Yard in Chattanooga. There is a large building with a cupola in the center of the image, probably Captain Slayton's Mill. In the foreground, on the right, is an enclosed yard with various wagons; in the center is a large barn-like building.

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Camp of U. S. Colored Infantry at Chattanooga, Tennessee, near Sanitary Garden

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Image of several cabins and a small cleared area between the cabins next to the Tennessee River. In the clear area, African-American troops stand or sit with muskets stacked. There is a drummer to the right; two white officers stand off to the right.

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House presented to Lt. Genl. U. S. Grant by the Citizens of Galena, Ills

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Photograph of a brick, two story home. There are men standing outside the home. A white picket fence is in the foreground.

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[Military Bridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee, taken from the Navy Yard]

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This collection contains 54 photographs by photographer Isaac H. Bonsall chiefly depicting the landscape and Union Army operations during the American Civil War in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Lookout Mountain, Georgia, Corinth, Mississippi, and the surrounding regions, from approximately 1862 to 1865. The prints primarily document encampments, buildings, artillery, steamships, railroad bridges, and soldiers. The collection also includes some portraits of soldiers and Union officers, including the officers of the 1st United States Veteran Volunteer Engineers and Generals William S. Rosencrans, John H. King, George H. Thomas, and Joseph Hooker. Among the images are two images of African American Union troops. A landscape view of grazing farm animals near Arkansas City, Kansas, is the only image in the collection that does not date from the Civil War, and also the only image carrying Bonsall's imprint. There are also two additional images that were not taken by Bonsall and include copyright information for N. Brown.

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Steamboat, U. S. Navy Yards, 1864

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Image of a steamboat being built; the framing for the hull sits on the slipways. There are a number of workmen standing either next to or inside the unfinished hull. Just beyond are two vessels, a steamboat not yet completed, and the Steamboat Bridgeport.

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Close order Black Platoon Drill in Parade Plaza near Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Image of a large parade ground surround on three sides by cabins. On the right there is a platoon of African-American soldiers grouped closely together; they face an officer standing at attention on the other side of the parade grounds. There are numerous onlookers, including a woman, on the right behind the platoon. In the middle of the image is the Tennessee River, while dominating the background is Lookout Mountain.

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Infantry Company in Formation, Chattanooga Navy Yard

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