After capturing Atlanta on September 1, 1864, General William T. Sherman led Union forces on a "March to the Sea" to Savannah and the Carolinas. George Barnard, officially assigned to accompany Sherman, photographed many scenes of destruction along the way. After the war, Barnard published them in a volume entitled Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign, recognized as one of the most valuable documentations of the Civil War.

Note that while Sherman's troops forced the evacuation of Charleston early in 1865, they were not responsible for the destruction depicted in the photographs above.

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