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Oct 8, 2020 · Lessons From the Fallen: Depictions of the Dead of Antietam. The newly-discovered Elliot Map at Antietam not only tells us where many of the dead were buried, but confirms and disputes 158-year-old information. It’s as if the dead are still sharing their tragic stories with us.
- Civil War Photo Breakthrough
- Alexander Gardner Photographs Two Days After Battle's End
- Photos Bore Witness to War's Horrors
- Civil War Photos Sold Well
Brady and his photographers, as well as others, followed the armies to capture scenes from the battlefronts. Together, they produced as many as 10,000 documentary images, or perhaps even more, from the camps, battlefield and home front. Some, such as “The Dead of Antietam,” brought the gruesome realities of warfare home to the American public. From...
The photographer who captured “The Dead of Antietam” was Alexander Gardner, a burly Scottish immigrant with a round face and a long beard who managed Brady’s Washington gallery. On September 19, 1862, two days after the battle, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Leewithdrew his army into Virginia, leaving the battlefield in Union hands. That afternoon, Gar...
Back in Washington, Gardner and his staff made prints from the negatives and mounted them on stereo view cards and single-image “Album Gallery Cards.” Each image bore a label on the reverse with a title or caption as well as a number. Brady’s earliest Civil War photographs, including the Antietam images, are among history’s first numbered, collecti...
Gardner and Brady knew they were capturing history with their cameras, but their primary reason for taking battlefield images was because they knew they would sell. And sell they did. Civil War photos and stereo views sold well during and after the war. Their popularity is evidenced by the dozens of original views available today at online auction ...
Oct 9, 2023 · Two unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each others’ mouths. The war resulted in at least 1,030,000 casualties (3 percent of the population), including about 620,000 soldier deaths—two-thirds by disease—and 50,000 civilians.
Sep 24, 2012 · Titled “View in the Field, on the west side of Hagerstown road, after the Battle of Antietam,” it is one of the most reproduced photographs of Civil War dead. In October, Brady displayed...
Nov 10, 2021 · The Civil War was certainly the most catastrophic event in American history. More than 600,000 Northerners and Southerners died in the war, a greater number than all those who had died in all other American wars combined.
Thousands of Civil War photographs are available online for free. Many of these are scanned from the original glass plate negatives at ultra-high resolution. All Civil War photographs are now in the public domain, and reproductions can be used in any fashion by anyone.
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May 20, 2015 · It is impossible to think of a time when photos of war and destruction weren't plastered on the front page of newspapers. Order member Kelly Christian explores just such a time, and how the Civil War and technology came together to change our relationship to the visuals of death.
