Image ID: AJRW

Credit:

by Gardner (Alexander)

Date:

1862.09

Negative Size:

4 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

cannon; field carriage; flag; horse; Parrott Rifle gun; sponge and rammer staff; sponge bucket

Locations & Lines:

Antietam battlefield; Maryland

Military Units:

1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery; 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery (Battery E); US Army

Persons:

Knap (Joseph M.)

Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 577. Captain Knapp’s Battery, Pennsylvania Artillery, (Banks’ corps) on Battle-field of Antietam. [Gardner Co. stereo card]

Photographic War History. The War For The Union. 1861-1865. No. 577. Independent Pennsylvania Battery “E,” (Knapp’s Battery.) This is a view of the well known Knapp’s Battery, of the Army of the Potomac, at Antietam, Md., Sept., 1862. This view was taken shortly after the great battle of Antietam. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Gardner No. 577.

Etched onto negative: 577.

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