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Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Dunker Church at Antietam battlefield, with dead artillery horse.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0758 Author/Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882 Place Written: Sharpsburg, Md. Type: Photograph Date: 19 September 1862 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 10.2 cm, Width: 12.1 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "Dunker[d] Church." Variant view of Dunker Church. In other views, the bodies of Confederate soldiers can be seen piled together amongst horse carcases and an abandoned limber. Numeric notation on verso: "48."

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