when you become famous and your work become popular critics always want a loopholes to bring your popularity down. Gardner falls in the categorical of people whose work of photographs was envy by his contemporaries, they wanted to prove to the world that Gardner did not actually took its shots in the battlefield, or that the confederate soldier in the battlefield looks alike with the one Gardner took and called the home of the rebel sharpshooter, it does not make any sense a photograph is a photograph whether stage managed or fabricated the most important thing Gardner took a fantastic photograph.