President Lincoln on battle-field of Antietam, October, 1862 (LOC)

    Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer.

    President Lincoln on battle-field of Antietam, October, 1862

    ©1866.

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

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

    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)

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

    Title from item.

    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.

    Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

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

    Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12544

    Call Number: Illus. in E468.7 .G2

    Comments and faves

    1. ★

      agnellina, ms thang, HeadOvMetal, Lidia Camacho, and 24 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. brad.schram (47 months ago | reply)

      One of the many interesting aspects, to me, of this much reproduced photo is the figure at right in the big hat with his hand on a saber: George Armstrong Custer.

    3. garww (47 months ago | reply)

      To my view, they are all little men but one. Sacket might give him a go.

    4. fw652830 (47 months ago | reply)

      I never visited the Antietam Battlefield, but I DID visit Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, Chancelorsville, and Fredericksburg. It's a sobering visit and moment in your lifetime to traverse soil that was drenched in the blood of Union and Confederate soldiers. Hallowed ground, that these sites are. But, in the words of Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse, " These (Confederate) men were once our enemy....they are now our fellow countrymen." And so, the confederates merely dropped their rifles, and went fishing for the rest of the day.

    5. artolog (47 months ago | reply)

      I wonder why this photo was copied with the book and the large margin included. It would be nice to be able to see the picture as it was originally taken,

    6. Lú_ (44 months ago | reply)

      This photograph is part of the Indicommons.org post The 1860s across the Commons.


    7. David C. Foster (42 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Veterans of the American Civil War, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    8. molnarattika (30 months ago | reply)

      Hello

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    9. Lisa Marie2 (14 months ago | reply)

      I had no idea that was Custer on the right. He was rockin' his sideburns back then....before he settled on the mustache and soul patch.

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