Alexander Gardner / Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-03855 President Lincoln and Gen. George B. McClellan in the general's tent at Antietam.

He retraced Gardner's steps at Antietam, using the same type of equipment: a stereo wet plate camera and glass plates. If you toggle using the "now" and "then" buttons, another image fades in and ...

When Alexander Gardner arrived on the bloody Antietam battlefield in 1862, with his cumbersome photography equipment, he set out to do something that no one had ever done. It was the first time a ...

1 of 4 — Todd Harrington holds a developed wet plate up to the light to check its exposure. 2 of 4 — The wet-plate camera used by Alexander Gardner after the Battle of Antietam was like this ...

Two days after the Battle of Antietam (September 17, 1862), which to this day is still the single worst day for the American military — with over 23,000 killed or wounded — Alexander Gardner ...

When you think of Civil War photography, you might think of the man known as the father of the genre, Mathew Brady, and not his one-time assistant, Alexander Gardner.Many of Gardner’s photographs are ...

Before Alexander Gardner made the most memorable photographs of the American Civil War, he had a hard time making up his mind. As a young man in Scotland, he had been an apprentice jeweler. Then ...

In the 1860s Alexander Gardner Captured a Native Life, Now Lost. By Melody Rowell. December 9, 2014 ... As the war worsened, Gardner lugged his equipment to Gettysburg and Antietam, ...

Alexander Gardner took breathtaking photos of the most violent and contentious period in American history, from the Civil War through westward expansion, before quitting abruptly to sell insurance.

Today's 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam got us thinking: What if Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner could revisit some of the original sites he photographed?