A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor / negative by J. Reekie ; positive by A. Gardner. – Antique Print
![A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor / negative by J. Reekie ; positive by A. Gardner., 1865 April [printed later], c1866. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/27/27f98f1595dc-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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor / negative by J. Reekie ; positive by A. Gardner.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor / negative by J. Reekie ; positive by A. Gardner.
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Few scenes from the Civil War were as stark as this burial party at work on the Cold Harbor battlefield in Virginia. The fighting there in late May and early June 1864, during Ulysses S. Grant's campaign toward Richmond, left many Union and Confederate dead on open ground for days. The record dates the view to April 1865 and credits Alexander Gardner, with the negative attributed to J. Reekie. Gardner later published it in his *Photographic Sketch Book of the War*, which brought images of battlefield dead to a public that could not see the front for itself.
| Created / published | 1865 April [printed later], c1866. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 2, no. 94. Copyright by A. Gardner. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commentary by Alan Brinkley. New York : Knopf, 1997. |
| Subjects | Dead persons--Virginia--Cold Harbor--1860-1870. War casualties--Virginia--Cold Harbor--1860-1870. Gravedigging--Virginia--Cold Harbor--1860-1870. Cold Harbor, Battle of, Va., 1864. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties--Union--Virginia--Cold Harbor. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,701 × 3,782 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223464 |
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