Close-up of dead Confederate soldier as he lay on the field, after the battle of the 19th May, near Mrs. Allsop's, Pine Forest, 3 miles from Spottsylvania [i.e. Spotsylvania] Court House, Va. Title from caption. Alt title from recto. Written on verso: This view was taken near Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, after Ewell's attack on the Federal right. The dead man is one of the Rebel General Ewell's soldiers, just as he fell. There is very little of the "romance of war" to be found in such scenes as this; the fair face of nature is smeared and stained with the blood of the poor victims of war. Every rod of ground hereabouts has one or more dead soldiers lying on it.
Extent
1 stereograph : albumen ; 8.3 x 17 cm (3 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 United States--Virginia--Spotsylvania United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties Battlefields--Virginia--1860-1870. (lctgm)
Place
Spotsylvania (Va.)
Source
Stereographs War United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
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