Gettysburg Pa. Dead Confederate soldiers in the slaughter pen at the foot of Little – 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 Pa. Dead Confederate soldiers in the slaughter pen at the foot of Little, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Gettysburg Pa. Dead Confederate soldiers in the slaughter pen at the foot of Little
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The stony ground at the foot of Little Round Top, which soldiers called the slaughter pen, is the place pictured here, with Confederate dead lying where they fell during the fighting of July 2, 1863. Photographers who worked the field after Gettysburg recorded scenes like this, and the stereograph pair was meant to be viewed through a stereoscope so the bodies appeared in depth. The wet collodion glass negative was formerly credited to Alexander Gardner, whose team documented the battlefield. Pictures like this showed many Northern viewers the war's dead in a way newspaper accounts could not.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative (2 plates) : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Civil War photographs 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge Washington D.C. : Library of Congress 1977. No. 0203 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. 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--Casualties--Confederate. Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863. War casualties.United States--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,404 × 1,366 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46776 |
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