Atlanta - Union Soldiers Devastate the City

After General Sherman's Union soldiers captured Atlanta, in November of 1864, they destroyed the city's depots and buildings in which Southerners produced war materiel.  This illustration - from Harper's Weekly - depicts such a scene. 

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Credits

Illustration from the January 7, 1865 issue of Harper's Weekly, online courtesy U.S. Library of Congress.

The drawing's caption reads:  "DESTRUCTION OF THE DEPOTS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND MANUFACTORIES AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 15, 1864."