Antietam Md. Burnsides bridge – 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. Burnsides bridge, 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. Burnsides bridge
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Burnside's Bridge, a three-arched stone span over Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, is the subject here, and it was the site of some of the bloodiest fighting of the battle fought there on September 17, 1862. Union troops under Ambrose Burnside took hours to force their way across the narrow crossing against Confederate defenders on the far bank. This wet collodion glass negative from 1862 records the bridge in the aftermath of the battle, when its stonework and approaches became a focus of attention. The negative was once credited to Alexander Gardner, who photographed the battlefield that autumn, though the attribution has since been revised.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass 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. 0130 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--Transportation. Antietam Battle of Md. 1862. Bridges.United States--Maryland--Antietam. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Civil War Photographs |
| Original scan | 1,724 × 1,370 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-CIV-46078 |
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