1862
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Standing Tall at Antietam: Alexander Gardner’s Portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the Bloodiest Battlefield
Standing toweringly in a dark frock coat and stovepipe hat amidst the tents of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln is captured by Alexander Gardner on October 2, 1862, just two weeks after the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
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Abraham Lincoln at the Antietam Battlefield: A President Confronts the Cost of War
Standing on the scarred, silent earth of the Antietam battlefield in October 1862, Abraham Lincoln appears as a weary architect of a fractured nation in this haunting, unflinching portrait captured by Alexander Gardner.