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Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863 – Historic Reproduction

Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863, 1863 — historic photograph
Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863, 1863. Historic photograph from the Gettysburg collection.

(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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Union Dead at Gettysburg - in the wheat field, July 1863

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Unlike many Gettysburg views of the town and the ridges, this stereograph shows the dead of the Wheat Field, a few acres of grain where Union and Confederate troops fought on July 2, 1863, the second day of the battle. The card is numbered 245 in a photographic war history series, and its two halves were meant to be viewed through a stereoscope, which gave viewers a sense of depth in the scene. Battlefield photographs like this were made within days of the fighting and were sold to a public eager to see the war's aftermath. Its caption is brief, so the exact photographer and vantage point are not recorded here.

Created / published1863
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsStereo, The War for the Union. Photographic War History (no. 245). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: C.W.--Dead; US Hist.--July 1863; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,478 × 844 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-132823

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