Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Body of Confederate sharpshooter – 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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A window into the past: Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Body of Confederate sharpshooter, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gettysburg Pennsylvania. Body of Confederate sharpshooter
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Shown lying among the rocks where he fell, this Confederate sharpshooter is one of the best-known images of the dead from the Gettysburg battlefield. The Library of Congress holds three copy negatives made from one half of a original stereograph glass negative. The negative sleeve names Alexander Gardner, who claimed the view in his *Sketch Book*, but historian William Frassanito credits Timothy O'Sullivan, so the authorship is still debated. The picture is a sober record of the cost of the fighting in early July 1863.
| Created / published | 1863 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 3 negatives : glass stereograph wet collodion. |
| Notes | Photographer name on negative sleeve: Gardner. Caption from negative sleeve: Body of dead sharpshooter Battle of Gettysburg. Each of these glass negatives is a copy of one half of an original stereograph glass negative. (See neg. The number 942 is on variant A; 251 is on variant B; and 942 is on variant C. William Frassanito in Gettysburg: A Journey in Time credits Timothy OSullivan as the photographer of this image. Although Gardner claimed credit for this view in his Sketch Book the original catalogue issued only two months following the battle identified the cameraman as OSullivan. Published in: Published in: Gardner Alexander / Gardners photographic sketch book of the War. Washington D.C. : Philp & Solomons [1865] plate 41 with the title Home of a rebel sharpshooter Gettysburg. Clipping from Conf |
| Subjects | War casualties--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg. Gettysburg Battle of Gettysburg Pa. 1863. United States--History--Civil War 1861-1865--Casualties--Confederate. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,120 × 4,811 px · prints to 17 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46786 |
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