Rebel Prisoners, Gettysburg

Photography Studio Brady & Co. American

July 1863

Not on view

Mathew B. Brady and his team of field operatives came across this trio of Confederate prisoners on Seminary Ridge two weeks after the Battle of Gettysburg. Beautifully posed by the photographers, it offers a rare glimpse of captured Confederates, possibly spies, on their way to a Union prison.

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Title: Rebel Prisoners, Gettysburg
Photography Studio: Brady & Co. (American, active 1840s–1880s)
Publisher: E. & H. T. Anthony (American)
Date: July 1863
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: 8 x 15.9 cm (3 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, by exchange, 2022
Object Number: 2022.143
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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