Essential Lens: Analyzing Photographs Across the Curriculum
Witness (video) #591 Burying the dead on the battle-field of Antietam

Photograph shows Union soldiers standing near the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers September 19, 1862, on Miller farm.
Metadata
Date: September 1862
Location: Antietam, Maryland
Photographer: Alexander Gardner
Source: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ds-05180
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