Images from Harper's Weekly are sketches pulled from photographs taken by M. B. Brady. Includes dead soldiers and dead horses on battlefield, wounded under tents improvised with fence rails, and the bridge over Antietam Creek. Text on p. 663 of Harper's: "We reproduce on pages 664 & 665 a number of photographs of the BofA, taken by the well-known and enterprising photographer, Mr. M. B. Brady, of this city. The following description of these wonderfully lifelike pictures is from one who knew the ground: ...Minute as are the features of the dead, and unrecognizable by the naked eye, you can, by bringing a magnifying glass to bear on them, identify not merely their general outline, but actual expression. This, in many instances i perfectly horrible, and shows through what tortures the poor victims must have passed before they were relieved of their sufferings....A row of dead bodies, stretching out into the distance, in the form of an obtuse angle, and so mathematically regular that it looks as if a whole regiment were swept down in the act of performing some military evolution. Here and there are beautiful stretches of pastoral scenery, disfigured by the evidences of strife, either in the form of broken caissons, dead horses, or piles of human corpses." Note: no illustrator credited.
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1 bound volume ; 29.8 x 41.9 x 6.4 cm (11 3/4 x 16 1/2 x 2 1/2 in.)
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