Gettysburg Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devils Den – Historic 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 Gettysburg Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devils Den. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gettysburg Pa. Dead Confederate soldier in Devils Den
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Devil's Den, the jumble of granite boulders south of Little Round Top, is the setting, and the dead man lies among the rocks where Confederate sharpshooters had fired on Union lines during the fighting of July 2, 1863. Alexander Gardner's team made this wet collodion glass negative in the days after the battle, and it was published under the caption "The Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter." Historians have long noted that the scene was arranged, with the body and rifle positioned for the camera, which makes the picture as much a lesson in how battlefield photographs were made as a record of the dead.
| Created / published | 1863 |
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| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | This photograph is titled The home of a Rebel Sharpshooter Gettysburg In Alexander Gardners Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War (Reprint; New York : Dover Publications Inc. 1959) plate 41. Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0205 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. 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--Casualties--Confederate. Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863. War casualties.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 865 × 680 px |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46774 |
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