antietam battle of md

The fight in the cornfield; The Irish Brigade driving the rebels out, ...

Title inscribed below image. Formerly attributed to Alfred R. Waud, with the call number DRWG/US - Waud, no. 290 (A size). Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R2.2.290) Reference print available in the Civil W... More

Atlas of the battlefield of Antietam /

Public domain scan of a vintage map, city plan, atlas, cartoghraphy, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Where Sumner's Corps charged at Antietam

Stereograph showing dead soldiers, horses, and broken gun carriages after General Sumner's Corps charged over this field on the battlefied of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862. No. 568. Part of series: The War for the... More

View of ditch, which had been used as a rifle-pit at the Battle of Ant...

Photograph shows the ditch, called "Bloody Lane," where the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers lay awaiting burial on September 19, 1862. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 565. Entered according to Act of Congress, i... More

Killed at the Battle of Antietam

Photograph shows three dead soldiers, most likely killed September 17, 1862, by the rail fence on the Hagerstown Pike. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 559. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by ... More

The rebels covered by a ledge of rock repulsing the troops on the righ...

Signed lower left of image: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically right margin: Genl Sumners attack. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.300) Reference print available in the Civil War Dr... More

[Sharpsburg, Md. View with Episcopal church in distance]

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

Tunker (i. e. Dunker) Church, on battle field of Antietam

Stereograph showing exterior view of a church with two people standing at the door. No. 573. Part of series: Photographic Incidents of the War. Copyright 1862 by Alexander Gardner. Forms part of: Civil War Pho... More

View in the field, on the west side of the Hagerstown Road, after the ...

Photograph shows three dead Confederate soldiers by a rail fence on the Hagerstown Road on September 17, 1862.

Antietam Bridge, on Sharpsburgh and Boonsboro Turnkpike

Stereograph showing a stone bridge over a river. No. 583 1/4. Hand written on verso: William Pinkerton. Copyright 1862 by Alexander Gardner. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)... More

Completely silenced! Dead Confederate artillery men, as they lay aroun...

Photograph shows the bodies of dead Confederate soldiers, a dead horse with wagon, and the Dunker Church in the background after the Battle of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery. No. 552. Entered according to Act ... More

[Abraham Lincoln on battlefield at Antietam, Maryland, cropped version...

Abraham Lincoln with, from left: Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps.; Gen. George B. McClellan; Scout Adams; Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director; an unidentified person; and standing be... More

George Brinton McClellan Papers: Correspondence I, 1783-1888; 1862; Ma...

George Brinton McClellan Papers: Correspondence I, 1783-1888; 1862; Ju...

Signal tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking battlefield of Ant...

Photograph showing soldiers at the Elk Mountain Signal Station. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 22. Another... More

View on battlefield of Antietam, Confederate States of America.

Photograph shows four dead Confederate soldiers from General William Starke's Louisiana infantry along the Hagerstown Pike. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 567. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862... More

[Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in th...

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

[Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. Ruins of arsenal]

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

Gathered together for burial after the Battle of Antietam

Photograph shows dead bodies on the ground. Photographic Incidents of the War. From Gardner's Gallery, corner of 7th and D streets, Washington, D.C. No. 557. Negative by Alex. Gardner. Entered according to Act... More

Dr. A. Hurd, 14th Indiana Volunteers, attending to Confederate wounded...

Photograph shows wounded Confederate soldiers under tents at Smith's barn near Keedysville, Md. The barn was used as a hospital after the battle with Dr. Anson Hurd in attendance. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 588... More

[President Abraham Lincoln posed with Union officers and soldiers duri...

Photograph shows, left to right, Buck Juit, a soldier; Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's bodyguard (seated); Ozias M. Hatch; Marcy; Reeves; General McClernand; President Abraham Lincoln; General Fitz-John Porter; Gene... More

[Berlin (now Brunswick), Md. Pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bri...

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

[Ford near Shepherdstown, on the Potomac. Pickets firing across the ri...

Soldiers resting, and firing guns on the banks of the Potomac. Title devised from Harpers Weekly. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862. Inscribed upper left: 1st [illegible inscription] Gift, J.P. Mo... More

The rebels covered by a ledge of rock repulsing the troops on the righ...

Signed lower left of image: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically right margin: Genl Sumners attack. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.300) Reference print available in the Civil War Dr... More

View in the ditch, on the right wing, after the Battle of Antietam

Photograph shows dead Confederate soldiers in a ditch called "Bloody Lane" on September 19, 1862. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 563. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Alexander Gardner, in... More

Antietam bridge, Maryland / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

Stone bridge over Antietam creek. Copyright by A. Gardner. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 19. Alexander... More

View in the ditch, on the right wing, after the Battle of Antietam

Photograph shows dead Confederate soldiers in a ditch called "Bloody Lane," on September 19, 1862. A Union soldier stands above the ditch on the left side. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 563. Entered according to ... More

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP_1919:R1.2.0546). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file U. Reference print availabe in Ray, Plate... More

The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam / E. Forbes.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.39) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Antietam, Md. Seated: R. William Moore and Allan Pinkerton. Standing...

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

[Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in th...

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

View in the field, the west side of the Hagerstown Road, after the Bat...

Photograph shows dead Confederate soldiers by a fence on the Hagerstown Road, on September 19, 1862.

[Berlin (now Brunswick), Md. Pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bri...

Photo shows telegraph pole at left and pontoon bridge built by Union troops across the Potomac River at Barry, Maryland (earlier called Berlin and later Brunswick, Md.). This view, looking from Virginia towards... More

[Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General Jo...

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

Independent Pennsylvania Battery "E", (Knap's Battery)

Stereograph showing Captain J. M. Knap's Pennsylvania Independent Battery "E" Light Artillery approaching the battlefield at Antietam, Maryland after the battle in September 1862. A dead horse lay in the foreg... More

McClellan looking at the fight - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: Fight in the cornfield on the back of this sketch. Formerly Waud no. C-131. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1058) Forms part of: Morgan collection o... More

[Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General Jo...

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

Dead Confederate soldiers, as they fell, on the west bank, near the br...

Photograph shows two dead Confederate soldiers on the ground near the Burnside Bridge. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 555. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Alexander Gardner, in the Clerk'... More

Atlas of the battlefield of Antietam, prepared under the direction of ...

Relief shown by contour lines. Indicates roads and streets, houses, names of residents, fences, vegetation, drainage, bridges, and fords. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster imag... More

Dunker Church, battle-field of Antietam, Maryland / negative by J. Gar...

Photograph showing Dunker Church, which was damaged during the battle at Antietam. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v.... More

Sharpsburg citizens leaving for fear of the Rebels

Signed lower right: Alf. R Waud. Title inscribed lower left. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 11 1862, p. 641. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.262) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Skirmish between the Brooklyn 14th and 300 Rebel Cavalry [sic]

Drawing shows a scene that apparently didn't happen. The Brooklyn 14th did not fight in areas where there was Confederate cavalry. (Source: Antietam, by the editors of Time-Life Books, 1996, p. 69) Inscribed on... More

[Antietam, Md. Colonel John S. Crocker, Lt. Colonel Benjamin C. Butler...

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

The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam / E. Forbes.

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.39) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Group of Irish brigade as they lay on the battlefield of Antietam, 19t...

Photograph shows dead soldiers, members of the Irish brigade commanded by Gen. Thomas F. Meagher, on the battlefield of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 550. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the yea... More

[Antietam, Md. President Lincoln with General George B. McClellan and ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. 1. Col. Delos B. Sacket, I.G. 2. Capt. George Monteith. 3. Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer. 4. Gen. George W. Mor... More

Battle of Antietam, Maryland--Burnside's division carrying the bridge ...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 15, no. 367 (1862 Oct. 11), p. 33.

George Brinton McClellan Papers: Letterbooks and Telegram Books, 1852-...

George Brinton McClellan Papers: Notebooks, 1842-1885; European milita...

[Antietam, Md. Another view of Antietam bridge]

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

[Ford near Shepherdstown, on the Potomac. Pickets firing across the ri...

Soldiers resting, and firing guns on the banks of the Potomac. Title devised from Harpers Weekly. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862. Inscribed upper left: 1st [illegible inscription] Gift, J.P. Mo... More

Confederate soldier, who, after being wounded, had dragged himself to ...

Photograph shows a dead Confederate soldier lying on his back in a little ravine on the battlefield at Antietam, Md. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 554. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Al... More

The rebels covered by a ledge of rock repulsing the troops on the righ...

Signed lower left of image: ARW. Title inscribed below image. Inscribed vertically right margin: Genl Sumners attack. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.300) Reference print available in the Civil War Dr... More

Citizen volunteers assisting the wounded in the field of Battle

Signed lower right: Alf R Waud. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC?PP_1919:R1.2.0546). Reference print available in the Civil War Drawings file U. Reference print availabe in Ray, Plate... More

[Antietam, Md. General Randolph B. Marcy with officers and civilians a...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Capt. Wright Rives; John W. Garrett, Pres., Baltimore & Ohio R.R.; Orderly; Gen. Marcy; Lt. Col. Andrew P. Porter... More

[Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in th...

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

Group of Irish brigade as they lay on the battlefield of Antietam, 19t...

Photograph shows dead soldiers, members of the Irish brigade commanded by Gen. Thomas F. Meagher, on the battlefield of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 550. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the yea... More

[Antietam, Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing]

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

Farm house used as a hospital by the rebels; their dead and wounded ly...

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.40) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The Battle of Antietam, fought September 17, 1862

Includes General Burnside holding the hill, attack by General Franklin, and General McClellan to the rescue. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1862 Oct. 4, p. 632-633.

Antietam, Md. President Lincoln with General George B. McClellan and g...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. 1. Col. Delos B. Sacket, I.G. 2. Capt. George Monteith. 3. Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer. 4. Gen. George W. Morell.... More

[Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton ("E. J. Allen") of the Secret Service o...

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

McClellan looking at the fight - Public domain drawing

Title inscribed below image. Inscribed below title: Fight in the cornfield on the back of this sketch. Formerly Waud no. C-131. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1058) Forms part of: Morgan collection o... More

Group of President Lincoln, General McClellan, and suite, at headquart...

Photograph shows from left Buck Juit, Ward Hill Lamon, Ozias Hatch, Gen. Randolph B. Marcy, Capt. Wright Rives, Gen. McClernand, Pres. Lincoln, Lt. Col. Andrew B. Porter, Gen. McClellan, Joseph Kennedy, John Ga... More

Into the cornfield - Public domain scan / drawing

Title inscribed lower left. Formerly Waud no. C-131. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1058 verso) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Burning of Mr. Muma's [sic] houses and barns at the fight of the 17th ...

Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in: Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862, p. 648. Embossed stamp lower left: EB. Inscribed lower right: Rebel caisson blowing up. Gift, J.P. Mo... More

Laid out for burial at Antietam

Alternate title devised by Milhollen and Mugridge from the corresponding negative. Copyright 1862 by Gardner & Gibson. Hand written on verso: William Pinkerton. Forms part of: Civil War Photograph Collection (... More

[Antietam, Md. Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial]

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

View on battle field of Antietam where Sumner's Corps charged the enem...

Stereograph showing devastation after the battle with dead soldiers on the battlefield and a wagon in the background.

Maj. General George B. McClellan, U.S.A. / border designed by W. Mombe...

Print shows George B. McClellan, half-length portrait, facing left, with border of Civil War Antietam battle scenes.

Skirmish between the Brooklyn 14th and 300 Rebel Cavalry [sic]

Drawing shows a scene that apparently didn't happen. The Brooklyn 14th did not fight in areas where there was Confederate cavalry. (Source: Antietam, by the editors of Time-Life Books, 1996, p. 69) Inscribed on... More

View on battle-field of Antietam

Photograph shows four Union soldiers looking at dead Confederate soldiers on Miller Farm, looking toward the west woods on September 19, 1862.

[Antietam, Md. Seated: R. William Moore and Allan Pinkerton. Standing...

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

[Antietam, Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a...

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

Gen McClellan's HQ Army of the Potomac, Pleasant Valley, Md.

Title inscribed lower left. Inscribed below image: Gen. Inglass[sic] H.Q.; Signal corp, "McC. Head Qu[arters]. Formerly Waud no. C-130. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1057) Forms part of: Morgan coll... More

Battle of the Antietam fought September 16 & 17, 1862

Scale 1:10,560. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 246 Pen and ink manuscript drawn on tracing cloth, showing "line of Hooker's advance," roads, houses and names of occupants, fences, vegetation, drainage, and relief... More

Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln, and Maj. General Joh...

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. : Libr... More

George Brinton McClellan Papers: Correspondence I, 1783-1888; 1862; Se...

President Lincoln on battle-field of Antietam, October, 1862 / Alex. G...

Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln at Antietam, Maryland, on Friday, October 3, 1862, during his visit to General McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, to encourage "Little Mac" to attack the Confedera... More

President Lincoln on battle-field of Antietam, October, 1862 / Alex. G...

Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln at Antietam, Maryland, on Friday, October 3, 1862, during his visit to General McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, to encourage "Little Mac" to attack the Confedera... More

[Antietam, Md. Burnside's bridge] during American Civil War

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

[Elk Mountain, Md. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield]

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

The "Sunken Road" at Antietam, Confederate States of America.

Stereograph showing dead Confederate soldiers in ditch on the battlefield at Antietam, Md. No. 553. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed to Alexander Gardner, ... More

[Antietam, Md. Burnside bridge] during American Civil War

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

Into the cornfield - Public domain scenic drawing

Title inscribed lower left. Formerly Waud no. C-131. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1058 verso) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

[Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. View of the town and railroad bridge]

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

[Sharpsburg, Md. View with Episcopal church in distance]

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

[Antietam, Md. Confederate dead by a fence on the Hagerstown road]

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

Ditch on right wing, where a large number of rebels were killed at the...

Photograph shows two men looking at dead Confederate soldiers in the ditch, called "Bloody Lane," on the battlefield at Antietam, Md. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 553. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the... More

[Antietam, Md. General Randolph B. Marcy with officers and civilians a...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Capt. Wright Rives; John W. Garrett, Pres., Baltimore & Ohio R.R.; Orderly; Gen. Marcy; Lt. Col. Andrew P. Porter... More

The President and General McClellan on the Battle-field of Antietam

Photograph shows President Lincoln and General McClellan seated inside a tent on the Battlefield of Antietam. Ostendorf, no. 66 Meserve, no. 43. Printed under photo: Entered according to act of Congress, in th... More

Antietam Sharpsburg and vicinity. Constructed and engraved to illustra...

Scale ca. 1:26,700. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 246.2 From Tomes, Robert. The war with the South. New York, Virtue & Yorston, 1862-1867, v. 2, between p. 426 and 427. Signed (facsim.): Charles: Sholl, Topl. En... More

Antietam, Md. President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in the...

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. : Libr... More

Antietam, Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a ...

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. : Libr... More

[Elk Mountain, Md. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield]

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

[Berlin (now Brunswick), Md. Pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bri...

Photo shows telegraph pole at left and pontoon bridge built by Union troops across the Potomac River at Barry, Maryland (earlier called Berlin and later Brunswick, Md.). This view, looking from Virginia towards... More

Burnside Bridge, Antietam, Sept., 1862 during American Civil War

Stereograph showing a partial view of a stone bridge over Antietam creek in Maryland. No. 608. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War History, 1861-1865. Attributed to Alexander Gardner, based... More

[Berlin (now Brunswick), Md. Pontoon bridge and ruins of the stone bri...

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

A lone grave on battle-field of Antietam

Photograph shows five soldiers near a single grave for Pvt. John Marshall, Company L, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers under a tree on the battlefield of Antietam. Brady's Album Gallery, no. 570. Entered according ... More

Independent Pennsylvania Battery "E" (Knapp's Battery)

Stereograph showing Captain J. M. Knap's Pennsylvania Independent Battery "E" Light Artillery approaching the battlefield at Antietam, Maryland after the battle in September 1862. A dead horse lay in the foreground.