Type - photograph or illustration

Photograph

Title - caption or label given by the creator

Antietam, Md. A cavalry orderly

Creator - photographer or artist

Gardner, Alexander (1821 - 1882)

AotW bio page

Date Created

October 1862

Abstract - summary of image contents

image of a soldier in Federal uniform, standing, holding his saber and the reins of a saddled horse

Subject - ex: soldier(s) in uniform, landscape, city street, interior scene, etc.

Soldier in uniform, horse

Spatial Coverage - the place depicted (geographical location)

Battlefield of Antietam near Sharpsburg, MD

Format - ex: ambrotype, glass plate negative, copy print, etc.

Wet collodion glass plate negative

Rights - a statement of any use restrictions or ownership

This item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States because copyright has expired, but we have not determined its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. You are responsible for your own use.

Source - owner or repository of original or digital image

Library of Congress

Original digital copy

Description - notes, provenance, or other information about the image

- Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0150
- Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.
- Corresponding print is in LOT 4172-F.
- Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.