This haunting photo is taken in 1864/5 by E.M. Recher of Hagerstown, MD. at Arlington Cemetery, and features headstones of Union soldiers who have likely fallen during U.S. Grant’s Overland Campaign to capture Richmond. The marker in the foreground is particularly interesting as it references an Unknown Union Colored Soldier, possibly signaling the cameraman’s pro-abolitionist leanings.
Union graves at Arlington in 1864
