Shadows of Antietam

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, with 23,000 casualties on both sides. After the battle, two photographers, Alexander Gardner and James Gibson, recorded the horror of war with the first-ever images of dead American soldiers. In Shadows of Antietam, Robert J. Kalasky has painstakingly re-created Gardner's and Gibson's output, retracing their footsteps by location, date, and time to chronologically and sequentially place their images.