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A Harvest of Death

Black and white photograph showing bodies lying on the ground, from the foreground to the horizon.
A Harvest of Death, 1863.

A Harvest of Death is the title of a photograph[1] by Timothy H, O'Sullivan. Taken during the American Civil War, between July 4 and 7, 1863. It shows the bodies of soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, stretched out over part of the battlefield.[2]

A Harvest Of Death Media

  • A Harvest of Death, 1863.

  • Photography caption, by Alexander Gardner.

  • Alexander Gardner, Confederate dead gathered for burial at the southwestern edge of the Rose woods, July 5, 1863, Library of Congress.

  • Portrait of Timothy H.O'Sullivan by Philp & Solomons, circa 1870.

  • Map of Gettysburg in July, 1863.

  • Abraham Lincoln inaugurates Gettysburg National Cemetery on November 19, 1863 (attribution disputed)

  • On the battlefield of Antietam, Mathew B. Brady, September 1862.

  • The harvest of death - Gettysburg, July 4, 1863 (Dead soldiers and horses on battlefield), Wood engraving after Gardner's photograph, Harper's Weekly, July 22, 1865, via Library of Congress.

References

  1. ↑ "Timothy H. O'Sullivan | A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved June 11, 2022.
  2. ↑ Collective (2001, p. 43)


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