The document describes several photographs from the American Civil War showing dead soldiers from both the Union and Confederate forces killed in major battles such as Antietam, Gettysburg, Petersburg, and the Wilderness. The photos depict disemboweled and slain soldiers lying on the battlefields amid the trenches and outside structures like Dunker Church that were used as field hospitals during the battles. One image also shows a group of Confederate soldiers awaiting burial after being killed at Rose Farm near Gettysburg.

1. Till Death Ended Their LivesBy:Brianna Neely

2. Rebel soldier killed in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers "Fort Damnation" This picture was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburg, Virginia, April 2nd, 1865.

3. Federal soldier disembowelled by a shell Dead Federal soldier on the battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

4. Dead Civil War Soldiers at AntietamPhotograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862.

5. Petersburg, Virginia. Dead Fed. SoldierThis is a Federal Soldier that died during the battle at Petersburg, Virginia.

6. Dead Confederate SoldiersDead Confederate soldiers await burial at Rose Farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. July 5, 1863.

7. Dead Confederate SoldiersA group of dead Confederate soldiers killed during the Battle of the Wilderness. May 1864.

8. Dunker Church, AntietamSeveral dead soldiers lying outside of Dunker Church, which survived the Battle of Antietam and was used as an aid station

9. Fort Mahone, PetersburgA dead Confederate soldier in the trenches of Fort Mahone, called by the soldiers 'Fort Damnation.

10. Slain Confederate Sharpshooter at GettysburgA Confederate sharpshooter lies dead in a trench at Gettysburg

11. Confederate Dead at Petersburg, VirginiaAfter a nine-month siege, the Confederates finally abandoned their position outside Petersburg in the spring of 1865.

12. “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”