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Dead soldiers lying among boulders beside a stream – Antique Print

Dead soldiers lying among boulders beside a stream — historic image
Dead soldiers lying among boulders beside a stream. Historic image from the Gettysburg collection.

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A window into the past: Dead soldiers lying among boulders beside a stream, preserved in this historic image. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Dead soldiers lying among boulders beside a stream

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Boulders at the foot of Little Round Top set this scene apart, with soldiers lying among the rocks beside Plum Run, the stream that ran through the fighting on July 2, 1863. The ground around Devil's Den and the slope of Little Round Top saw some of the battle's heaviest fighting, and the low valley here came to be called the Valley of Death. Photographs of the dead were made in the days after the battle by teams working for Alexander Gardner, and they showed the cost of the fighting to a public far from the field. The photographers chose to show the bodies plainly, which makes the picture a stark record of the battle's aftermath.

Original scan2,006 × 1,939 px · prints to 7 × 6 in at 300 dpi
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