Two soldiers are dead, but only one – the Union trooper – has been buried in this photograph taken after the battle by Alexander Gardner.When Mathew Brady, famous for his team's pictures documenting the Civil War, exhibited the images taken at Antietam at an exhibit in New York City, they illustrated the wages of war as never before seen by civilians. Said The New York Times: 'Mr. Brady has done something to bring home to us the terrible reality and earnestness of war. If he has not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along streets, he has done something very like it
In March 1862, the Confederates abandoned their position at Manassas Junction, Va., site of the July 1861 rebel victory, as they prepared for a Union invasionof Virginia, the Peninsula Campaign. In this photo, local children observe Union cavalry soldiers across Manassas Creek. In August 1862 a second great battle would be fought on this site
(Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)
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