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View of Dunkard Church, from field where lives were cut short

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0886 Author/Creator: Place Written: Sharpsburg, Md. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 9.5 cm, Width: 11.8 cm Order a Copy

A view of Dunkard Church at Antietam from across a field. On the field, near the remains of an artillery piece, several bodies and a horse lay in their final resting places. Inscription on verso: "View near Dunker Church Antietam." Numeric notation on verso: "98."

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