A photograph of dead bodies on Culps Hill on the battlefield at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, America, taken by an unknown photographer in July 1863. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort, who toured Canada and America in 1867. The Union defences on Culps Hill were unsuccessfully attacked by Johnston's Confederate Division early on the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. One of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, over 50,000 men were killed or wounded during three days of fighting. Fought between 1861 and 1865, the American Civil War saw the Northern Union or Federal forces fighting successfully to prevent the Southern Confederacy from leaving the United States of America to form their own country. In total some 558,052 soldiers were killed in what was America's bloodiest war.

Picture Reference: 10436055
Subject: SOCIETY & WARS > Wars (excluding WWII) > Us Civil War, 1860-1865
Inventory No.: 1995-5001_1_0031
Credit: NMeM

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