Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in the general's tent; another view

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0145

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Two plates form left (LC-B811-0602A) and right (LC-B811-0602B) halves of a stereograph pair.

Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress).

Selected Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865.

Alexander Gardner (October 17, 1821 - December 10, 1882) was a Scottish photographer who is best known for his photographs of the American Civil War. He emigrated to the United States in 1856 and worked as a photographer in Mathew Brady's studio. Gardner was sent to document the American Civil War and produced some of the most iconic images of the conflict, including photographs of the battlefields at Antietam and Gettysburg. After the war, Gardner photographed President Lincoln and the American West, including images of Native Americans, settlers, and the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

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