Civil War Atlanta

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My brother sent me this, he lives in Atlanta, and is a ACW historian of sorts:

Hello Atlanta history fans --



Denney Media put together an interesting interactive view of Atlanta at the time of the Civil War. Basically, they pieced together photographs into a panorama and highlighted prominent buildings of the time so they can be clicked on to display some information about the building and where it is located on a map.



The photographs were taken from the top of the Atlanta Female Institute, a two story school building. They were taken by George Barnard in the short interval after Atlanta was captured by the Federals in September 1864, and before they destroyed the city just weeks later on November 14.



As you scroll through the photo from left to right, you are panning from South to West, or approximately 180 degrees to 270 degrees. In the western view you see the Herring-Leyden house. You will also notice that other houses are in line with it from side to side. These houses are on Peachtree Street. The Herring-Leyden house is on the block that is now the site of the Peachtree Westin Hotel. You see in the photo that Ellis Street goes up and intersects perpendicularly with Peachtree Street. On the near side of that angle is now the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. All of this area is a highly developed metropolitan city-scape at this time.



Very little remains from then, and that is why I mentioned the Herring-Leyden house. When it was finally torn down, they saved the columns and moved them to a school in Ansley Park, now apartments. If you drive down Peachtree Circle in Ansley Park you cannot miss seeing this building with its huge, impressive old white columns—from the Herring-Leyden house.



I was surprised to see the Ivy Homestead because I did not know that any photograph of it existed. Hardy Ivy was the first person of European descent to settle in what is now downtown Atlanta. At the time this photograph was taken, Mr. Ivy had already been deceased for 23 years. When Mr. Ivy occupied that building, there was nothing else around except forest. Mr. Ivy also did not live to see railroads operating in Atlanta. Although railroad building had been going on for a decade, the first locomotive did not arrive in Atlanta until late 1842. By the time of these photographs, however, Atlanta was a major railroad hub, and a target of the Federal army.



Here is the link:

http://www.denneymedia.com/atlanta1864/ ... stitue.swf