[Dead horse on battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania] – Vintage Print
![[Dead horse on battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania], [photographed 1863, printed later] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f3/f3d54f93b5e7-L.webp)
(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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[Dead horse on battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Dead horse on battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]
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A single dead horse lies on the Gettysburg battlefield in this 1863 view, a reminder that the battle's losses fell on animals as well as men. Thousands of horses were killed during the three days of fighting in early July, many by artillery fire and many more in the cavalry charges and wagon movements that shaped the battle. This print is numbered 226 in the Civil War Photograph Collection and was printed from a glass negative, probably some time after the original exposure. Photographers working in the weeks after Gettysburg often recorded the abandoned ground and carcasses in the same way they recorded the dead soldiers, which makes this picture a useful record of the battle's aftermath.
| Created / published | [photographed 1863, printed later] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Photographic prints 1860-1910. |
| Notes | Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 226. |
| Subjects | Dead animals--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Animals. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,469 × 1,168 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-215973 |
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