Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AAECm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 17.6 Mb

Image ID: AAEC

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1863.02-03
Negative Size:	6.5 in. x 8.5 in.
Equipment:	cant hook; rope
Locations & Lines:	Alexandria VA; Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR); Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Transports:	passenger car; PRR passenger car 18
Sources:	DeGolyer Library SMU; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. Unnumbered plate.

DeGolyer Library says: Military railroad operations in northern Virginia: men using levers for loosening rails.

African-american laborers.

At left is Pennsylvania Railroad passenger car #18, with another unidentified PRR passenger car.

Etched onto negative: 51.