#confederate dead

[thephilosopheroftheboudoir]

The Confederate Dead

Man Ray

[mccalllib]

Photograph of the Confederate Rest obelisk in Magnolia Cemetery. The Confederate Rest section, initially called Soldiers Rest, was added on November 25, 1861 for Confederate soldiers. This section of the cemetery contains 1100 war dead and various monuments, including the obelisk commemorating the men who died on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley.

Photograph from the T.E. Armitstead Photograph Collection held by The Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of South Alabama.

[chubachus]

"Confederate soldiers who had evidently been shelled by our batteries on Round Top." Confederate soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg believed to be photographed on the Rose Farm, July 1863. By Timothy O'Sullivan. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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[chubachus]

View of Confederate soldiers killed during the Battle of Gettysburg on the Rose Farm, July 1863. The photographers' supply and darkroom wagon can be seen in the background on the left. By Alexander Gardner. Animated stereoscopic photographs.

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[theamericanparlor]

The "Slaughter Pen" At Foot Of Round Top, After The Battle of Gettysburg, In Pennsylvania In July of 1863.

"Awful, awful rocks!!" For weeks after the battle, a delirious Alabama soldier suffering from his wounds repeated these words...

160,000 men fought at Gettysburg. Some 50,000 soldiers -- North and South -- were killed or wounded. It was the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil and it changed the course of U.S. history.

A portion of the battlefield of Gettysburg, located in front of Little Round Top, is known as the Slaughter Pen. Upon the conclusion of that engagement, the ground was found in many places to be almost covered with the dead and wounded.

Late on the afternoon of July 2, Confederates of Hood's Division captured Devil's Den and the ridge above in a bloody struggle that lasted an hour and a half. Devil's Den then became a nest of Confederate sharpshooters who took aim at Union officers and men on Little Round Top to the right. The sniping continued until the end of the battle on July 3. 

The rocks of Devil's Den and the Slaughter Pen have changed little since the time of the battle

http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMHM82_Devils_Den_and_the_Slaughter_Pen_Gettysburg_PA

[strangersintheroad]

Confederate Dead.