File:Lincoln and generals at Antietam.jpg

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English: Antietam, Md. President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers

SUMMARY: Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September–October 1862. 1. Col. Delos B. Sackett, I.G. 2. Capt. George Monteith. 3. Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer. 4. Gen. George W. Morell. 5. Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps. 6. Gen. George B. McClellan. 7. Scout Adams. 8. Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director. 9. Unknown. 10. President Lincoln. 11. Gen. Henry J. Hunt. 12. Gen. Fitz-John Porter. 13. Unknown. 14. Col. Frederick T. Locke, A.A.G. 15. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys. 16. Capt. George Armstrong Custer.

MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion.

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Civil War photographs, 1861–1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0148

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Additional information from Katz, D. Mark. Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner, 1991.

Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 75.
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  • 2006-07-05 18:23 Hlj 1226×909×8 (403944 bytes) Found a clearer version at LOC. [Antietam, Md. President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers]. Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer. CREATED/PUBLISHED 1862 October 3. SUMMARY Photograph from the main eastern theater of t
  • 2006-07-03 21:43 Hlj 2048×1435×8 (1068553 bytes) Photographed, cropped, and image-enhanced by Hal Jespersen. Taken from collection at US Army Military History Institute. {{PD-US}}

2009-06-27 Brian Downey Updated copyright tag for public domain by expiration of US Copyright. Author Alexander Gardner was _not_ US Govt or US Army employee, but rather a commercial photographer (d. 1882).

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