Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AAIWm, 520 DPI, TIFF, Copy Negative, 3.9 Mb

SKU 09a79a7fd8ff Category Field Photographs Tags by Russell (Andrew J.), Dutch Gap Canal VA, gunboat, James River, side-wheeler, US Navy, USS Mendota, USS Pequot, Virginia

Image ID: AAIW

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1864.12.12
Negative Size:	4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo
Locations & Lines:	Dutch Gap Canal VA; James River; Virginia
Military Units:	US Navy
Transports:	gunboat; USS Pequot; side-wheeler; USS Mendota
Sources:	Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Looking down James River from Dutch Gap, February 1865.

The Metropolitan Museum says: U.S. Gunboat “Mendota”, James River.

A pencilled note on the mount of the MOLLUS Collection print says: Pequot James River – 1864.

Etched onto a copy negative: Looking up the James from Jones Landing.