Antietam Cemetery

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• Title: Antietam Cemetery in foreground, South Mountain in background - gap shows location of Signal Station during battle. View taken after the war

• Date Created/Published: [photographed between 1861 and 1865, printed between 1880 and 1889]

• Medium: 1 photographic print on card mount : half stereograph, albumen.

• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-32885 (digital file from original item, bottom right) LC-B8184-5078 (b&w film copy neg.)

• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

• Call Number: LOT 4167-C, no. 2 [P&P]

• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

[AndyHall]

The dark lettering on two boards reads MASS and MICH.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

It can't have been taken very long post battle. Some graves are still marked with sticks. Those always give me chills.