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File Details: ARRGm, 750 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 19 Mb

Image ID: ARRG

Credit:

by Gardner (Alexander)

Date:

1862.09

Negative Size:

4 in. x 10 in. stereo

Locations & Lines:

Antietam MD; Antietam Creek MD; Maryland; Sharpsburg & Boonsboro Pike

Military Units:

CS Army; US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Burnside’s Bridge (Antietam Creek)

Sources:

Library of Congress; University of Maryland (Baltimore County)

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 615. Burnside Bridge, across the Antietam, northeast view, with braves of Union soldiers. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

University of Maryland, Baltimore County says: Bridge known as Rohrbach Bridge, became known as “Burnside’s Bridge” after battle at Antietam when Union forces led by General Ambrose Burnside took the bridge from Confederate troops.

Gardner No. 615.

Etched onto negative: 38, 584 [both crossed out]. 1/2, 615.

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