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Title: 568. Where Sumners' Corps charged at Antietam
Alternative Title: The War for the Union. Photographic War History.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1862
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: 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.
Title from caption. Alt title from recto. Written on verso: This view shows where a battery of Rebel artillery was posted in the morning of Sept. 17, 1862. During the day Sumner's Corps charged over this portion of the field, and the dead bodies of men and horses, and the broken gun-carriages shows how the tide of battle carried destruction and death with it.
Extent: 1 stereograph ; 8.3 x 17 cm (3 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
Identifier: photSt War (568)
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/830
Language: English
Subject: Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
Battlefields--Maryland--Antietam--1860-1870. (lctgm)
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and pillage
Place: Antietam (Md.)
Source: Stereographs
War
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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