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Signal Tower on Elk Mountain, Maryland, overlooking battlefield of Antietam

Date: September 1862
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of four Union soldiers at a signal station on Elk Mountain at Antietam. Three of the soldiers are perched atop a crude structure made of logs. One of the men holds a flag as a second holds a long telescope up to one eye.

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