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Antietam battlefield, with Federal soldier surveying the field with binoculars from atop a hill, near McClellan's headquarters.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0755 Author/Creator: Place Written: Sharpsburg, Md. Type: Photograph Date: 18 September 1862 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 10.2 cm, Width: 11.4 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "Battlefield-Antietam." Soldier looks over the battlefield the day after the battle, showing reserve artillery stationed on the left side of the image and a Federal soldiers bivouacked on the right. Numeric notation on verso: "80."

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