Special Report
25 Horrifying Images of The Civil War
September 30, 2022 12:00 pm
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A dead Confederate soldier
A dead Confederate soldier lies in a trench at Fort Mahone during the nine-month-long siege of Petersburg, Virginia, in the waning days of the Civil War – a siege that ended with a Union victory in March 1865 and enabled the fall of nearby Richmond.
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Bodies awaiting burial
Bodies await burial in front of the Dunker Church at Antietam, Maryland, after the Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862 – the single bloodiest day in American history, with more than 22,000 casualties.
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A broken cartwheel
A broken cartwheel with an abandoned cannon nearby on a battlefield, circa 1863.
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The toll at Gettysburg
Dead soldiers piled up in a trench following fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.
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‘Rocks Could Not Save Him’
A staged photograph of a Confederate sharpshooter lying behind a pile of rocks at Devil’s Den, after the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863.
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