Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter in The devils den. – Historic Print
(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 Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter in The devils den.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Dead Confederate sharpshooter in The devils den.
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A dead Confederate sharpshooter lying among the boulders of Devil's Den gives this glass negative its particular subject. Devil's Den, a jumble of granite outcrops on the southern end of the Gettysburg battlefield, was fought over in early July 1863, and its rocks offered good cover for riflemen on both sides. The negative is a wet collodion plate, a process that required photographers to coat, expose and develop each plate within minutes, so the scene was recorded close to the fighting. The image was formerly attributed to Alexander Gardner, a photographer who worked at Gettysburg that summer.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Battle of Gettysburg - Dead Sharpshooter. Confederate Sharpshooter the Devils Den. 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 × 4,131 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49357 |
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