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Title: Burying the Dead on the Battle-Field of Antietam
Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer
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: A Union burial detail with shovels and pickaxes readying the ground for the burial of dead Confederate soldiers. A tall tree stands in the background, left-hand side of frame.
Title from verso: Brady's Album Gallery No. 561. Union burial detail on the Miller farm, Sept. 19, 1862.
Extent: 1 print : albumen ; 8.3 x 11.7 cm (3 1/4 x 4 5/8 in.)
Identifier: photPF 2648
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/4435
Language: English
Subject: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
Photographs United States Civil War, 1861-1865. (aat)
Place: Antietam, Md.
Source: Photo File
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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