Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2011.

Confederate Dead in a Ditch on the Right Wing Used as a Rifle Pit, Antietam

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

CultureAmerican

Date1862

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 3 × 4 1/2 in. (7.6 × 11.4 cm)
Overall: 4 1/2 × 6 in. (11.4 × 15.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 17 in. (40.6 × 43.2 cm)

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

Object number98.32.333

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DescriptionThe David L. Hack Civil War Photography Collection. Photograph of corpses in a trench. Several men lined up and looking down into the trench. This is from _Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War_ (Hack Collection No. 2].

Label TextAlexander Gardner Confederate Dead in a Ditch on the Right Wing Used as a Rifle Pit, Antietam, 1862 Albumen print, 8 x 7 in. Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Gift of David L. Hack and by exchange Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 98.32.333Exhibition History"The Civil War and American Art," Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2012 - April 28, 2013; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 21 - September 2, 2013. Published ReferencesEleanor Jones Harvey, _The Civil War and American Art_ (New Haven, CT: Smithsonian American Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2012), 78.