Image: Lincoln and generals at Antietam

Description: Antietam, Md. President Lincoln with Gen. George B. McClellan and group of officers SUMMARY: Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September–October 1862. 1. Col. Delos B. Sackett, I.G. 2. Capt. George Monteith. 3. Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer. 4. Gen. George W. Morell. 5. Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps. 6. Gen. George B. McClellan. 7. Scout Adams. 8. Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director. 9. Unknown. 10. President Lincoln. 11. Gen. Henry J. Hunt. 12. Gen. Fitz-John Porter. 13. Unknown. 14. Col. Frederick T. Locke, A.A.G. 15. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys. 16. Capt. George Armstrong Custer. MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass, wet collodion. NOTES: Civil War photographs, 1861–1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0148 Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Additional information from Katz, D. Mark. Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner, 1991. Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress ... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 75.
Title: Lincoln and generals at Antietam
Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-04352 (digital file from original neg.), uncompressed archival TIFF version (20 MiB), color level, cropped, and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.6.1
Author: Alexander Gardner
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License: Public domain
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