Two wooden coffins lay on the ground, the bare feet of a dead soldier protruding between them (PHOTO 4) while two other bodies wrapped in blankets lay nearby. The scene at the top of this post, photographed by Mathew Brady's operators in Fredericksburg, Va., on May 19 or 20, 1864, probably was repeated hundreds, if not thousands, of times in the town and the surrounding, war-ravaged countryside during the Civil War. Like this blog on Facebook | Follow me on Twitter 3: An extreme close-up of Sergeant Harvey Tucker's wooden grave marker. A shovel obscures the rest of the writing on the marker. Tuck" appear on the grave markerīy the solder's right foot. 2: In this enlargement of the original image, "SAR" and "H. 1: A photographer employed by Mathew Brady made this image of the burial of Federal dead,
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