Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882, photographer. still image Glass negatives 1860-1870. gmgpc Stereographs 1860-1870. gmgpc 1862 September 17 [i.e. 18]. eng Photo, probably taken on the afternoon of Sept. 18 (the day after the battle), shows a man with binoculars on the hill in front of McClellan's headquarters looking towards Antietam Creek. The smoke is from campfires, and the inactive artillery unit is thought to be General Andrew A. Humphreys' Fifth Corps division. (Source: Antietam, by William Frassanito, p. 70-73. Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862. Title from Milhollen and Mugridge. Corresponding print is in LOT 4167-C. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. General information about Civil war photographs is available at Forms part of: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress). Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. United States Antietam. Civil war photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.00307 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwp.4a39563 No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Civil war photographs, 1861-1865,"