Antietam Maryland. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Antietam Maryland. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Antietam Maryland. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing
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A ditch on the right wing at Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, holds the Confederate dead in this view, made shortly after the battle of September 17, 1862. That day was the bloodiest single day in American history, and photographs taken in the days that followed were among the first to show the war's dead to the public. The image survives as two glass negatives, variant views of a stereograph, made by the wet collodion process, which required each plate to be coated and developed almost immediately. It was formerly credited to Alexander Gardner.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Caption from negative sleeve: View in ditch on right wing after the Battle of Antietam. Sept. 1862. 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 × 4,088 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46977 |
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