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TITLE:  President Lincoln on battle-field of Antietam, October, 1862 / Alex. Gardner, photographer.

CALL NUMBER:  Illus. in E468.7 .G2 (Case Y) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-DIG-ppmsca-12544 (digital file from original photograph)
LC-USZC4-10198 (color film copy transparency)
LC-B8171-7951 (b&w film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY:  Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln at Antietam, Maryland, on Friday, October 3, 1862, during his visit to General McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, to encourage "Little Mac" to attack the Confederate Army. Lincoln is posed standing by a chair and facing McClellan with other Union Army officers grouped outside a tent. From left to right: Colonel Delos B. Sacket, Captain George Monteith, Lieutenant Colonel Nelson B. Sweitzer, General George W. Morell, Colonel Alexander S. Webb [Chief of Staff, 5th Corps], General George B. McClellan, Scout Adams, Dr. Jonathan Letterman [Army Medical Director], unidentified soldier, President Abraham Lincoln, Colonel Henry J. Hunt, General Fitz-John Porter, Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Colonel Frederick T. Locke, General Andrew A. Humphreys, and Captain George Armstrong Custer. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 107)

MEDIUM:  1 photographic print : albumen ; photo 7 x 9 in. on album page 12 x 15 5/8 in.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  Ã1866.

CREATOR:

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.

NOTES:

Illustration in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, [D.C.]: Philp & Solomons, [1865-66], v. 1, no. 23.

Title from item.

Ostendorf no. 62

Published in: Lincoln's photographs: a complete album / by Lloyd Ostendorf. Dayton, OH: Rockywood Press, 1998, p. 107.

Published in: Viewpoints; a selection from the pictorial collections of the Library of Congress .... Washington : Library of Congress ..., 1975, no. 75.

Exhibited: "With Malice Toward None : The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2009.

SUBJECTS:

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles.

FORMAT:

Book illustrations 1860-1870.
Portrait photographs 1860-1870.
Group portraits 1860-1870.
Albumen prints 1860-1870.

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from original photograph) ppmsca 12544 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12544
(digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g10198 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g10198

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CONTROL #:  2002713085

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