Confederate Dead on Antietam Battlefield

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War. By the end of the day of September 17, 1862. 4,710 were dead, 18,440 lay wounded, and another 3,043 were missing. Two days later the photographer Alexander Gardner took this haunting photograph of Confederate dead along the fence-lined Hagerstown Pike.

Date:
September 19, 1862
Original Format:
Photographic Print
Item#:
MES14477
Photographer:
Alexander Gardner
Height:
968px
Width:
1089px
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