George Barnard

(1819-1902)

    George Norman Barnard (December 23, 1819 – February 4, 1902) was an American photographer most well known for his photographs from the American Civil War era. He is often noted as G. N. Barnard.

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    Projects

    Capt. Rufus D. Pettit’s Battery G, 1st N. Y. Light Artillery, in Ft. Richardson, Fair Oaks, Va., June, 1862.(Collection The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.)
    Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign

    A chronicle of the Civil War capturing the destruction of the South during Sherman’s campaign with artistic and historical precision.

    Pontoon Bridge, Across the Rappahannock, May, 1863; Photo by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
    Photographic Sketchbook of the War

    A visual chronicle of the Civil War, created through the collaborative efforts of eleven photographers to preserve pivotal moments of 19th-century American history.

    Books

    Photographic Views of Sherman's March

    (Dover Publications, 2009)

    George N. Barnard: Photographer of Sherman's Campaign

    (Hallmark Cards, 1990)

    Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War

    (Dover Publications, 1959)

    Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the American Civil War 1861-1865

    (Delano Greenidge Editions, 2002)

    Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

    (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020)