. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . SIGNAL CORPS WATCHING BATTLE FROM HILLSIDE AT ANTIETAM. ARTILLERY AFTER THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM THIS is believed to be the first. photograph ever taken ofarmies in battle on the West-ern Continent. The historicnegative was taken from the hill over-looking the battle of Antietara. Itshows the artillery in terrific conflictand the fire belching from the can-nons month. The clouds of smokerising from the valley tell the fearfulstory of that seventeenth day of Sep-tember, in 1862, when 25,899 Confed-erates
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . SIGNAL CORPS WATCHING BATTLE FROM HILLSIDE AT ANTIETAM. ARTILLERY AFTER THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM THIS is believed to be the first. photograph ever taken ofarmies in battle on the West-ern Continent. The historicnegative was taken from the hill over-looking the battle of Antietara. Itshows the artillery in terrific conflictand the fire belching from the can-nons month. The clouds of smokerising from the valley tell the fearfulstory of that seventeenth day of Sep-tember, in 1862, when 25,899 Confed-erates were killed, wounded and cap-tured at the cost of 12,469 Unionmen. On the left of the lines standthe reserve artillery waiting for thecall to action. One can almost hearthe voice of Little Mac urging hismen on to victory. The defeat atManassas, and the destruction ofPopes trains, with the hot haste inwhich the troops had passed throughWashington, gave no time for theissuance of shoes, socks or other nec-essaries. The men who had trampedthrough the Chickahominy swampsand down the Virginia Valley wereragged and bleeding, but when rose
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