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Antietam

The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day

by William A. Frassanito

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During the battle that left twenty-six thousand Civil War soldiers dead or wounded, two photographers recorded the grim battlefield scenes, a study of war's carnage that horrified the American public.

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