Dead horses of Bigelow's (9th Massachusetts) Battery – Vintage Print
![Dead horses of Bigelow's (9th Massachusetts) Battery, [photographed 1863, printed later] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/1a/1ae21c7540eb-L.webp)
(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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Dead horses of Bigelow's (9th Massachusetts) Battery comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Dead horses of Bigelow's (9th Massachusetts) Battery
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Few images from Gettysburg are as blunt about the cost of the battle as this one. It shows the horses of Bigelow's 9th Massachusetts Battery, lying where they fell after the artillery unit fought in the fields around the Peach Orchard on July 2, 1863. Artillery teams were essential to moving and firing guns, so a battery's horses were as vulnerable as its men, and their carcasses often littered the ground around the guns. The photograph was taken in 1863 but printed later, and it belongs to a series of battlefield views that helped Americans see the aftermath of the fighting.
| Created / published | [photographed 1863, printed later] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1860-1910. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 266. |
| Subjects | Dead animals--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Animals. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,316 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215975 |
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