Seeing the Civil War

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Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1864.04
Negative Size:	11 in. x 14 in.
Equipment:	telegraph pole
Locations & Lines:	Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Transports:	USMRR locomotive Commodore
Sources:	Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; National Archives; Swann Galleries; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection; Virginia Historical Society; William L. Clements Library

The USMRR locomotive Commodore, derailed by rebels near Brandy Station on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in April of 1864.

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 133. Engine “Government” [sic] down the “banks” near Brandy, April 1864.

Etched onto negative: 67. Picking up debris of trains Popes Retreat.