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Image Title: President Lincoln On Battle-Field Of Antietam, October, 1862

Creator: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer

Date: ?1866.

Summary: Photograph shows Abraham Lincoln at Antietam, Maryland, on Friday, October 3, 1862, during his visit to General McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac, to encourage "Little Mac" to attack the Confederate Army. Lincoln is posed standing by a chair and facing McClellan with other Union Army officers grouped outside a tent. From left to right: Colonel Delos B. Sacket, Captain George Monteith, Lieutenant Colonel Nelson B. Sweitzer, General George W. Morell, Colonel Alexander S. Webb [Chief of Staff, 5th Corps], General George B. McClellan, Scout Adams, Dr. Jonathan Letterman [Army Medical Director], unidentified soldier, President Abraham Lincoln, Colonel Henry J. Hunt, General Fitz-John Porter, Joseph C. G. Kennedy, Colonel Frederick T. Locke, General Andrew A. Humphreys, and Captain George Armstrong Custer. (Source: Ostendorf, p. 107)

Subjects: Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns & battles
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military personnel--Union

Original Media: Photograph

Collections: Civil War

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