Sherman, William Tecumseh, Major General, United States Army

Signature ("W. T. Sherman, Maj Genl"), written on the card mount at the foot of a carte-de-visite size albumen portrait print (4 x 2  3/8  in.; 102 x 60 mm) mounted on card with the imprint of Barnard Photo, [n.p., ca. 1864]; minor spotting.

Signature ("W. T. Sherman, Maj Genl"), written on the card mount at the foot of a carte-de-visite size albumen portrait print (4 x 2 3/8 in.; 102 x 60 mm) mounted on card with the imprint of Barnard Photo; minor spotting.
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A fine portrait of an appropriately fierce-looking General Sherman, with slightly dishevelled hair. The Northern photographer, George N. Barnard, was sent to Atlanta, after the city's fall in the autumn of 1864, and consequently accompanied Sherman's troops on their march to Savannah.  It is most likely during this period that Sherman sat for Barnard, who is best known for the series of photographs he took to document Sherman's "March to the Sea," published in 1866 as Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign.