[President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John A. McClernand (right), and E. J. Allen (Allan Pinkerton, left), Chief of the Secret Service of the United States, at Secret Service Department, Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Antietam, Maryland], October 4, 1862, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 22.4 x 18 cm (8 13/16 x 7 1/16 in.), Photographs, Alexander Gardner (American, Glasgow, Scotland 1821–1882 Washington, D.C.), Two weeks after he recorded the carnage at Antietam, Alexander Gardner returned to the battlefield to photograph the visit of President Abraham Lincoln. The president made the seventy-mile journey to Maryland to pay his respects to the wounded on both sides and to confer with his field generals
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President Abraham Lincoln, Major General John, McClernand, right, E, J, Allen, Allan Pinkerton, left, Chief, Secret Service, United States, Service Department, Headquarters Army, Potomac, Antietam, Maryland, October 4, 1862, Albumen silver print, glass negative, Image, 22.4 x 18 cm, 8 13/16 7 1/16, Photographs, Alexander Gardner, American, Glasgow, Scotland, 1821–1882, Washington, D.C., Two weeks, recorded, carnage, returned, battlefield, photograph, visit, Abraham, Lincoln, president, seventy-mile journey, pay, respects, wounded, sides, confer, field generals
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