Elk Mountain, Md. Signal tower overlooking Antietam battlefield.
Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln and Major General John A. McClernand.
Antietam, Md. Allan Pinkerton ("E.J. Allen") of the Secret Service on horseback.
Keedysville, Md., vicinity. Smith's barn, used as a hospital after the battle of Antietam.
Antietam, Md. Another view of Antietam bridge.
Harper's Ferry, W.Va. View of town; railroad bridge in ruins.
Antietam, Md. Confederate dead in a ditch on the right wing used as a rifle pit.
Antietam, Md. Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial.
Probably taken on the afternoon of Sept. 18 (the day after the battle). A man with binoculars on the hill in front of McClellan's headquarters looks toward Antietam Creek. The smoke is from campfires, and the inactive artillery unit is thought to be General Andrew A. Humphreys' Fifth Corps division.
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