Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2010.

Dr. Jonathan Letterman and Others, Including General Buford and Gibson or Gibbon

Artist Alexander Gardner (American (born Scotland), 1821 - 1882)

Date1862

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 7 1/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.1 × 23.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in. (40.3 × 50.5 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineGift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange

Object number98.32.21

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U.S. Civil War
Antietam, Virginia

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. This photograph contains the image of ten Civil War soldiers. All of the soldiers appear to be white except for one African American. Most of the men are laying or sitting on the grass near a tree while the African American man sits in a chair. Behind them are positioned several soldiers' pitched tents. Inside the closest tent there are chairs and a small table with a bowl. The tent behind the first seems to have a cot inside. Off to the right, the image is hazy but a man with two horses can be discerned. In the background view there are more tents and trees. This is Plate 10 from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_(Hack Collection No. 50).