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Alexander
Gardner and James Gibson, working for Mathew Brady, visited Antietam
two days after the battle. A month later, the photographs went on view at Brady's studio in New York City where thousands of people viewed the devastating scenes. Gardner took 70 photographs of the battlefield starting just two days after the battle. This was the first time an American battlefield had ever been photographed before the dead had been buried. Gardner returned in early October when President Lincoln visited General George McClellan and the Army of the Potomac and took another series of images. A gallery of the image sis available on the Antietam National Park website. |
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Ditch-on-the-Right Wing, September 1862 Click image to enlarge. Copyright 2002 The Chicago Historical Society |
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