View from within cemetery towards Union Artillery Brigade, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Artist Isaac H. Bonsall (American, active 1860s)

Date1864

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 1/8 × 12 9/16 inches (25.72 × 31.91 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2008.13.5

Signednone

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "HF.873.002.07", "IBH/1081"

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DescriptionImage of Union troops lined up in front of a cemetery fence with their barracks behind them.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 23. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 18 – May 28, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label

Isaac H. Bonsall made this image of Union soldiers during his service as a military photographer for the Engineer Brigade of the Army of the Cumberland. He worked far from actual combat, recording encampments, buildings, and bridges of military significance. Bonsall’s Civil War work has only recently been rediscovered.

He opened his first photography studio in Cincinnati. In the late 1850s, he worked briefly in Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, and New Orleans. At the start of the war, he returned to Ohio to enlist in the army.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2008.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2008.

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