Antietam Md. Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial – Vintage 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. Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Antietam Md. Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial
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Bodies of Confederate soldiers, gathered together for burial, are the subject of this 1862 stereograph pair. The fighting at Antietam, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American military history, and burial details worked in its aftermath to deal with the dead. The pair is made from two glass plates, one for each view, and a third variant plate also survives. Stereographs like this were viewed through a special lens to create a sense of depth, bringing scenes of the war's losses into parlors across the North.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 2 negatives (3 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. 0134 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. Antietam Battle of Md. 1862. War casualties.United States--Maryland--Antietam. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,812 × 1,372 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46077 |
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