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GENERAL SHERMAN ON HORSEBACK IN FEDERAL FORT NUMBER SEVEN
Atlanta GA
September 1864

Sherman was very pleased with a small stereograph that Barnard took of him in Atlanta. Sherman wrote to his wife Ellen that his horse "...stood like a gentleman for his portrait." At this time a common way to make an enlargement of a small photograph was to rephotograph it with a larger camera. Since the new print was often of lower quality than the original, these blow-ups were frequently colored by hand to make the figure stand out.