Image ID: AAEY

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 75.

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. 75–Four Blanket Boats, tied together, form a very stable float, which may be paddled, poled or rowed, with great facility. Row locks are readily made by boring holed in the top rails and inserting pins. A float of four boats is represented in No. 75. It was used in paying out the rope to form a ferry, and answered perfectly.

Haupt, Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt, plate 21. Small Raft of Blanket Boats Crossing the Potomac River.