Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest DayDuring the battle that left twenty-six thousand Civil War soldiers dead or wounded, two photographers recorded the grim battlefield scenes, a study of war's carnage that horrified the American public. |
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
PART ONETHE QUEST FOR REALITY | 13 |
Bringing the War Home | 14 |
Copyright | |
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Alvin Antietam battlefield Antietam Bridge Antietam Creek artillery background barn battle of Antietam Bloody Lane Boonsboro Brady brigade Burnside Bridge camera position cameramen campaign Carolina casualties Civil colonel commander Company Confederate dead Cornfield Dunker Church East Woods Elk Ridge enemy enlisted Fifth Corps fighting fire foreground Gardner's caption Gardner's photograph George Georgia Gibson Hagerstown Pike Harpers Ferry hospital infantry John Keedysville located Louisiana Maryland Maryland campaign Mathew Brady McClellan McClellan's headquarters miles Miller farm modern version morning of September Ninth Corps North Woods Northern October Oliver Wendell Holmes Parran Peninsula campaign Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Volunteers portraits Potomac recorded regiments Rushin scene Sedgwick's division September 17 September 21 Sharpsburg Sherrick Smith farm Smoketown Smoketown Road South Southern sunken road taken Thomas tion Twelfth Corps Union army Union forces Union soldiers unit vicinity view looking village of Sharpsburg Virginia visible West Woods wounded York