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Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863 – Historic Print

Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863, 1863 — historic photograph
Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863, 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863

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The wheat field south of Gettysburg, where this card places its subject, was among the most fiercely contested ground of the battle, and on the afternoon of July 2, 1863, it changed hands several times as Union and Confederate units fought over it. Stereographs like this one were made by photographers who reached the field in the days and weeks after the fighting, and the dead in the view show the ground before burial details had cleared it. Stereo cards were sold to a public eager for images of the war, so viewers were meant to see the scene in three dimensions and reckon with its cost. The caption data on this record is unverified, so the exact date and photographer should be checked against other sources.

Created / published1863
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo, The War for the Union. Photographic War History (no. 245). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: C.W.--Dead; US Hist.--July 1863; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 906 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132823

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