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Gettysburg Pa. Bodies of Federal soldiers killed on July 1 near the McPherson woods – Antique Print

Gettysburg Pa. Bodies of Federal soldiers killed on July 1 near the McPherson woods, 1863 — historic photograph
Gettysburg Pa. Bodies of Federal soldiers killed on July 1 near the McPherson woods, 1863. Historic photograph from the Gettysburg collection.

(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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pa. Bodies of Federal soldiers killed on July 1 near the McPherson woods, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Gettysburg Pa. Bodies of Federal soldiers killed on July 1 near the McPherson woods

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Bodies of Union soldiers lie in the open ground near McPherson's Woods, where the fighting on July 1, 1863, opened the Battle of Gettysburg. The record also gives the scene's alternate title, the field where Gen. John F. Reynolds fell early that morning. The image is a stereograph, made from two glass negatives taken from slightly different positions so that viewers using a stereoscope saw the scene in depth. The catalog notes that the photographer was formerly credited to Alexander Gardner, whose team documented the battlefield soon after the fighting.

Created / published1863
Medium1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion.
NotesThis photograph is titled Field where General Reynolds Fell in Alexander Gardners Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0199 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.
SubjectsUnited States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Casualties--Union. Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863. War casualties.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Civil War Photographs
Original scan920 × 687 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-CIV-46773

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