This albumen print stereograph shows the bodies of two (2) deceased Confederate soldiers lying in front of a fence on the battlefield at Antietam, Maryland. A piece of clothing or a blanket lies in the right foreground. The print is mounted on yellow cardboard with a rounded square frame and a central divider that have an embossed design. The reverse of the mount is blank. Artist Alexander Gardner.
Field Where General Reynolds Fell, Gettysburg, July 1863.
A burial party, searching for dead on the borders of the Gettysburg battle-field, found, in a secluded spot, a sharpshooter lying as he fell when struck by the bullet, Gettysburg, PA, 1863. His cap and gun were evidently thrown behind him by the violence of the shock, and the blanket, partly shown, indicates that he had selected this as a permanent position from which to annoy the enemy.
Civil war in El Salvador-Dead body in San Salvador street.
Civil war in El Salvador-Dead bodies in the street after attack by guerrillas fighters of San Miguel City.
The Nyarubuye church is the site where four thousand civilians were murdered by Hutu militia men May 25, 1994 in Rwanda. Following the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana in April, 1994 genocide of unprecedented swiftness left up to one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead at the hands of organized bands of militia by early July, 1994.
An unidentified dead man's hand sticking up out of a riverbed on June 27, 1999 outside Suva Reka, Kosovo. Several mass graves were found in this area and hundreds of thousands of people fled into Macedonia and Albania during the Serb terror of Kosovo. The international community entered Kosovo in June 1999 and Serb troops fled to Serbia.
Somalis cover the bodies of victims killed in UN confrontations July 9, 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Tension continues to escalate following the deadly skirmishes between Somali rebels and Italian troops involved in the UN peacekeeping mission in the east African nation.
Trossell's House was located in front of the left of the position occupied by the Union army at the battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 1863. General Sickles established his headquarters nearby on the second day's fight, and it was in this immediate vicinity that he received his wound, from which he lost his limb. Dead horses, visible about the building, indicate the terrific character of the fight.
The body of one of the five victims of an attack on Kakate village near the town of Witu, Lamu county, lies on June 24, 2014 on the ground at the scene where they were killed overnight Monday by gunmen suspected to be islamist Shebab fighters. At least 11 people have been killed in a new attack on Kenya's coastal region, officials said on June 24, one week after some 60 people died in twin massacres nearby. Some were hacked to death with knives, others shot and executed at close quarters, mirroring similar tactics used in earlier attacks claimed by Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab.
Two bodies lie in a street after fighting between Communists and Nationalists in the Chinese district of Canton, 1928.
Picture taken 20 March in the Sudanese town of Yei showing a soldier of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) standing on canon near a dead body.
During the Battle of Antietam hundreds of Confederate soldiers died along the Hagerstown Pike beside the West Woods north of Dunker Church. These men belonged to Confederate General William Starke's command. September 19, 1862.
Dead of the Russian Civil War.
Body of a Red Cross member killed by a mujahedeen fighter near Kabul.
A man stands by the burial mound of a Union soldier. A dead Confederate soldier lies nearby, unburied.
The bodies of children killed when their school was bombed by rebel forces in the Spanish Civil War, are laid out in the cemetery ready for burial.