Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AAEZm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 17.7 Mb

Image ID: AAEZ

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1863.02-03
Negative Size:	6.5 in. x 8.5 in.
Equipment:	rope
Locations & Lines:	Alexandria VA; Potomac River; Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Transports:	blanket boat
Sources:	Boston Athenaeum; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress

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

Library of Congress says: Raft of blanket boats ferries men across Potomac, Alexandria.