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Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00552 Author/Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: July 1863 Pagination: 2 p. : albumen : b&w Height: 31.2 cm, Width: 41.7 cm Order a Copy

One photograph entitled, "Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter, Gettysburg taken by Alexander Gardner dated July 1863. Image is of a corpse of a Confederate Army soldier. Gardner includes a brief vignette in which he describes visiting the site four months after the battle to find the soldier's "skeleton" still laying there, undisturbed and fully uniformed.

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

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