Antietam Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a rifle pit – Antique Photo 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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Step back in time with Antietam Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a rifle pit, a historic photograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Antietam Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a rifle pit
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A ditch on the battlefield's right wing, used as a rifle pit, holds the Confederate dead in this 1862 view of Antietam, Maryland. The battle, fought near Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, remains the bloodiest single day in American military history, and photographs of its aftermath were among the first to show the public the cost of war in such direct terms. The glass stereograph was made with the wet collodion process, which required photographers to prepare and expose plates on site. The record formerly credited it to Alexander Gardner, who worked with Mathew Brady's studio.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : 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. 0133 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. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies. Antietam Battle of Md. 1862. War casualties. Firearms.United States--Maryland--Antietam. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,710 × 1,374 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46081 |
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