Planning the Capture of Booth

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Artist: Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.)
Date: 1865
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 27.1 × 24.5 cm (10 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.1223

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

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.