Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Confederate soldiers who had evidently been shelled by our – Historic Reproduction
(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 Pennsylvania. Confederate soldiers who had evidently been shelled by our, 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 Pennsylvania. Confederate soldiers who had evidently been shelled by our
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Lying where they fell, these Confederate soldiers were, according to the original caption, killed by Union artillery fire from the batteries on Round Top during the fighting at Gettysburg in early July 1863. Photographers such as Alexander Gardner's team followed the armies to the field soon after the battle, and they recorded the dead before burial crews moved them. The image survives as a wet collodion glass stereograph negative, a format that was meant to be viewed in pairs through a stereoscope. Earlier cataloging credited Gardner, but that attribution has since been questioned, so the photographer remains uncertain.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Title from Civil War caption books. Caption from negative sleeve: Confederate soldiers who had evidently been shelled by our batteries on Round Top at the battle of Gettysburg. July 1863. 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 × 2,111 px · prints to 17 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-49352 |
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