Scouts and Guides to the Army of the Potomac

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Alexander Gardner / American, born Scotland, 1821–1882
Date: October 1862
Medium: Albumen print, pl. 28 from the album "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, vol. 1" (1866)
Dimensions: 17.7 × 22.9 cm (7 × 9 1/16 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: photograph
Style: 19th century
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Everett Kovler
Accession no.: 1967.330.28

Burying the Dead on the Battlefield of Antietam, September 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000511
Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 1, September 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000512
Antietam Bridge, On the Sharpsburg and Boonsboro Turnpike, No. 2, September 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000513
Pontoon Bridge, Across the Potomac, at Berlin, Maryland, November 1862
Alexander Gardner
1862 · Photograph
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of Art
AT-00000514