September 14, 2012 | Barry Costa

Antietam, Maryland; Confederate dead at Bloody Lane

Antietam, Md., Confederate dead at Bloody Lane. (Wikimedia Commons, photo from' Civil War Images. Plate of Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War,' Vol. 1, Philp & Solomons Publishers, Washington, D.C. (1866))

Antietam, Md., Confederate dead at Bloody Lane. (Wikimedia Commons, photo from' Civil War Images. Plate of Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War,' Vol. 1, Philp & Solomons Publishers, Washington, D.C. (1866))

Antietam, Maryland; Confederate dead at Bloody Lane, looking east from the north bank. (Civil War Images. Plate of Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War, Vol. 1, Philp & Solomons, Publishers, Washington, DC (1866). This image is cropped from the copy published by the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division)