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CivilWar@Smithsonian homepage. Same camera, different century: Stunning pictures that retrace the steps of ground-breaking Civil War photographer, 150 years later. By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 01:36 GMT, 19 September 2012 | Updated: 19:34 GMT, 19 September 2012 To mark the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam - the bloodiest single day in American military history - photographer Todd Harrington has retraced the steps of ground-breaking Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner. Photographic history changed forever at Antietam, as Gardner did something no one had done before and turned the lens on the grim reality of war, showing dead soldiers awaiting burial.
Present-day photographer Harrington was set a brief to capture the same scenes for the Sesquicentennial, minus the bodies of fallen soldiers, to document how the landscapes have changed. Then: Following the battle of Antietam in Maryland, on September 17, 1862, Confederate dead lay by a fence on Hagerstown road.