A photograph of dead soldiers lying at the foot of Little Round Top Hill on the battlefield at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative produced by Timothy H O'Sullivan (1840-1882) in July 1863. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867.
A photograph of dead soldiers lying at the foot of Little Round Top Hill on the battlefield at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative produced by Timothy H O'Sullivan (1840-1882) in July 1863. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States. 1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867.
Little Round Top was the scene of bitter fighting during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. One of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, over 50,000 men were killed or wounded during three days of fighting.
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1995-5001/1/27
- type:
- photograph
- credit:
- National Media Museum, Bradford
- copyright:
- National Science and Media Museum
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