01 November 2015

Before & after Civil War photos

Rico's friend Doug forwards this interactive Civil War photo gallery from The Guardian:

A hundred and fifty years after the last shots were fired, Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across America, photographing sites scarred by the Civil War:

Antietam: The Dunker Church
Bodies at the Dunker Church in Antietam, Maryland in September of 1862. The battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, and the Dunker Church was the focus of Union attacks against the Confederates.
Archive photograph by Alexander Gardner:


In 1921, a storm destroyed the church, but it was rebuilt for the hundredth anniversary of the Battle in 1962:


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