A photograph of dead soldiers 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. The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War, with over 50,000 men killed or wounded during three days of fighting. Gettysburg 1st day... 1863-07
A photograph of a column of soldiers crossing a wooden bridge over the Chickahominy River in Virginia, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative produced by DB Woodbury (?-1866) in 1862. 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. The photograph captures a scene during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 to 1863, when a Union Army unsuccessfully tried to march on the Confederate capital at Richmond. Military Bridge... 1862