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President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent

Antietam, Md.

The complete photo is at the Library of Congress Online, and is part of their Civil War Photograph collection.



PHOTOGRAPHER Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882)

CREATED/PUBLISHED 1862 October 3.

MEDIUM 1 negative : glass, wet collodion.

REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

CALL NUMBER LC-B811-0602

REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-B8171-0602 DLC (b&w film neg.)

COLLECTION Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID (b&w film copy neg.) cwp 4a39539

NOTES Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0145.

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.