War Photograph & Exhibition Company On the battlefield at Gettysburg

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GLC#
GLC08685
Type
Images
Date
1863 ; 1940s
Author/Creator
War Photograph & Exhibition Company
Title
On the battlefield at Gettysburg
Place Written
Hartford, Connecticut
Pagination
1 stereocard Height: 10.2 cm, Width: 17.7 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

A stereocard of the Patriot Publishing Company. Description of the photograph reads "A group of Union dead on the right of the federal lines on the first days' fight, July 1, 1863. These soldiers were killed by one discharge of "cannister" from a Rebel gun during a charge. "Cannister" is a tin can filled with small balls about the size of a marcle. When the cannon is fired the force of the discharge bursts open the can, and the shower of canniseter balls sweeps everything before it." This stereocard reproduced is the 1940s

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