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- "Completely Silenced! Dead Confederate Artillery Men," Battle of Antietam, September 16-18, 1862 - Mathew Brady provided extraordinary documentation of the American Civil War by bringing photographers and a portable photographic studio right to the battlefields. Many of these images were reproduced and sold as carte-de-visite photographs or stereographs (which appeared three-dimensional when viewed through a stereoscope), bringing--for the first time--scenes of war and its harsh realities directly into American homes.
- 16 September 1862-18 September 1862
- Collections - Artifact
"Completely Silenced! Dead Confederate Artillery Men," Battle of Antietam, September 16-18, 1862
Mathew Brady provided extraordinary documentation of the American Civil War by bringing photographers and a portable photographic studio right to the battlefields. Many of these images were reproduced and sold as carte-de-visite photographs or stereographs (which appeared three-dimensional when viewed through a stereoscope), bringing--for the first time--scenes of war and its harsh realities directly into American homes.