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Online Exhibits > Civil War Photographs by George Barnard

 

DESTRUCTION OF HOOD'S ORDINANCE TRAIN & RUINS OF ROLLING MILL
Atlanta GA
1864

When the Confederate Army abandoned Atlanta, there were large amounts of gunpowder stored on a train they were unable to take with them. To keep the materiel out of Union hands, General Hood ordered the train set on fire, resulting in a series of enormous explosions.

 

 

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