I find the faces in photos here are somehow more expressive to me than those found in color photography. Then sometimes seeing the past hits harder than just reading of things.
Whitehall Street, Atlanta, 1864. This photo of a black Union soldier posted at a slave auction house in Atlanta is one of hundreds taken by George N. Barnard during Gen. Sherman's occupation of the city in the fall of 1864. Many were destroyed in the conflagration that erupted upon Sherman's...