Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter, a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter
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Few battlefield photographs from Gettysburg are reproduced as often as this view of a dead Confederate sharpshooter, lying on rocky ground where riflemen from both armies fought in early July 1863. The image survives as a stereograph pair on wet collodion glass plates. Its negative sleeve credits T. H. O'Sullivan, though it was long attributed to Alexander Gardner, whose team photographed the field soon after the fighting ended. Historians have argued that the body and rifle were likely repositioned before the exposure, a practice that still raises questions about how honestly war photographs recorded what they showed.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name from negative sleeve: T. H. OSullivan. Caption from negative sleeve: Dead Confederate sharpshooter at the battle of Gettysburg. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). · Gardner Alexander 1821-1882 formerly attributed to this photographer. |
| Subjects | United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 5,063 px · prints to 17 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49355 |
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