File:"A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep." Compare the two photos of a Confederate killed at Gettysburg. Why might the photographer Alexander Gardner and his team move the body? LOC 9160159658.jpg

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English: Gardner, Alexander,, 1821-1882,, photographer.

A sharpshooter's last sleep, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
1863 July, c1866.
1 photographic print : albumen.
Notes:
 Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, no. 40.
Copyright by A. Gardner.
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Photograph showing a dead soldier and his gun.
Subjects:
 War casualties--Pennsylvania--Gettysburg--1860-1870.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties.
Format: Book illustrations--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
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.12561

Call Number: Illus. in E468.7 .G2, v. 1, no. 40
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current10:39, 10 February 2017Thumbnail for version as of 10:39, 10 February 2017531 × 409 (63 KB)Sebastian Wallroth (talk | contribs)Cropped 48 % horizontally and 47 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.
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