How the Antietam Dead Photos are Linked to an 1859 Italian Battle Alexander Gardner's haunting photographs of dead on the battlefield of Antietam shocked and fascinated Americans. Three years earlier, another photo of slain soldiers prior to burial reveals the same horrors of war—this time, on a far away battlefield in Italy. Here's the story. "Life on the Civil War Research Trail" is hosted by Ronald S. Coddington, Editor and Publisher of Military Images magazine. Learn more about our mission t

15K views · 926 reactions | Antietam National Battlefield ranger and historian Brian Baracz describes one of the numeorus ways we may use the newly-discovered S.G. Elliot Burial Map of Antietam in better understandin the field, sometimes one soldier at a time. https://www.battlefields.org/news/previously-unknown-map-showing-engagements-aftermath-amounts-rosetta-stone-battle-antietam | American Battlefield Trust | Facebook