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Hi all,
While perusing the Auburn library for material for my grad school paper, I wandered down the Civil War section to look around, as I usually do. I came upon Frassanito's work on photography at Antietam. In it, he examines the photo of Knapp's Battery taken on September 19, 1862, just two days after the battle. He states in the book that the location of the photograph was around the area of the Smoketown Road looking north towards the cornfield and the Miller and Poffenberger farms.
I had never realized this before about the photo's location. Aside from being in the background of some of the Hagerstown Pike photos, and one of the Dunker Church ridge photos, we don't see the "clover field" as Priest calls it or the area of the cornfield in Gardner's study. I've always been fascinated by Antietam and in particular this roughly square mile's worth of battlefield that saw the heaviest and bloodiest 5 hours in American history. I was wondering if anyone could find a high res copy of the image so we could examine the background. I used the search engine but could find nothing as to where it has been discussed already. If it has, please accept my apologies and direct me to the link.
Thank You!
Ryan Alcaino
While perusing the Auburn library for material for my grad school paper, I wandered down the Civil War section to look around, as I usually do. I came upon Frassanito's work on photography at Antietam. In it, he examines the photo of Knapp's Battery taken on September 19, 1862, just two days after the battle. He states in the book that the location of the photograph was around the area of the Smoketown Road looking north towards the cornfield and the Miller and Poffenberger farms.
I had never realized this before about the photo's location. Aside from being in the background of some of the Hagerstown Pike photos, and one of the Dunker Church ridge photos, we don't see the "clover field" as Priest calls it or the area of the cornfield in Gardner's study. I've always been fascinated by Antietam and in particular this roughly square mile's worth of battlefield that saw the heaviest and bloodiest 5 hours in American history. I was wondering if anyone could find a high res copy of the image so we could examine the background. I used the search engine but could find nothing as to where it has been discussed already. If it has, please accept my apologies and direct me to the link.
Thank You!
Ryan Alcaino
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