Completely Silenced! (Dead Confederate soldiers at Antietam)

Completely Silenced! (Dead Confederate soldiers at Antietam)

Photograph

Alexander Gardner

Maker
American, b. Scotland, 1821–1882

Completely Silenced! (Dead Confederate soldiers at Antietam)

From Brady's Album Gallery


1862
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 × 2 15/16 in. (7.6 × 7.5 cm)
Mount: 3 1/4 × 6 3/4 in. (8.2 × 17.2 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
Inscriptions mat recto-(printed) "Entered according to act of Congress, in the year
1862, by Alexander Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District of
Columbia"
mat verso-(printed label) "Brady's Album Gallery", "No. 552", title,
"Dead Confederate Artillery Men, As they lay around their battery
after the Battle of Antietam.", "The Photographs of this series were
taken directly from nature...infringing the copyright."
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