File:Lincoln-and-officers-Antietam-1862.jpg

Summary
Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.

CREATED/PUBLISHED 1862 October 3.

SUMMARY Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. 1. Col. Delos B. Sacket, I.G. 2. Capt. George Monteith. 3. Lt. Col. Nelson B. Sweitzer. 4. Gen. George W. Morell. 5. Col. Alexander S. Webb, Chief of Staff, 5th Corps. 6. Gen. George B. McClellan. 7. Scout Adams. 8. Dr. Jonathan Letterman, Army Medical Director. 9. Unknown. 10. President Lincoln. 11. Gen. Henry J. Hunt. 12. Gen. Fitz-John Porter. 13. Unknown. 14. Col. Frederick T. Locke, A.A.G. 15. Gen. Andrew A. Humphreys. 16. Capt. George Armstrong Custer.

NOTES Reference: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0148

Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.

Additional information from Katz, D. Mark. Witness to an era: the life and photographs of Alexander Gardner, 1991.

Forms part of Civil War glass negative collection (Library of Congress).

Copyright
The photograph and the above information relating to it was taken from the Library of Congress web site.