. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . and enter the National Capital from the north, thusgiving him a free route to the great municipalities of the North. It is probable that heeven had visions of the capture of New York. While developing this military strategemhe met the Federals in the open at Antietam. It was the seventeenth of September in McClellan was in command and Lees fondest dreams were blasted. The men ofboth armies fought as they never fought before. Bradys cameras were soon on the sceneand secured many negatives o
. Original photographs taken on the battlefields during the Civil War of the United States . and enter the National Capital from the north, thusgiving him a free route to the great municipalities of the North. It is probable that heeven had visions of the capture of New York. While developing this military strategemhe met the Federals in the open at Antietam. It was the seventeenth of September in McClellan was in command and Lees fondest dreams were blasted. The men ofboth armies fought as they never fought before. Bradys cameras were soon on the sceneand secured many negatives of this bloody day. The one above reveals the west side ofHagerstown Road after the battle. The bodies of the dead are strewn thickly beside thefence, just as they fell. The guns succeeded in getting an excellent range of this road,and slaughtered the enemy like sheep. This view of some of the men just as they fell, isonly a glimpse of many groups of dead in that terrible combat. Brady caught the In-dependent Pennsylvania Battery E, well known as Knapps Battery, shortly after the SIGNAL CORPS WATCHING BATTLE FROM HILLSIDE AT ANTIETAM
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