Seeing the Civil War
Image ID: AAET

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Image ID: AAET

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1863.03-04
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.
Locations & Lines:

Alexandria VA; Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Potomac River; Virginia
Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Structures & Establishments:

USMRR Wharf (Alexandria VA)
Transports:

blanket boat; boxcar; schooner
Sources:

J. Paul Getty Museum; Lehigh University; Library of Congress

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 71.

Haupt, Photographs Illustrative of Operations In Construction And Transportation, As Used To Facilitate The Movements Of The Armies Of The Rappahannock, Of Virginia, And Of The Potomac, Including Experiments Made To Determine The Most Practical and Expeditious Modes To Be Resorted To In The Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction Of Roads And Bridges. No. 71–Forty men, working in pairs, with the material place in front of them, (see No. 70) put together twenty frames in sixteen minutes. and several of the pairs finished in eight minutes. No. 71 represents the frame partly, and No. 72 entirely, finished.

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