Image ID: AAJM

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1865.04
Negative Size:	10 in. x 13 in.
Equipment:	cannon; Howitzer gun; Parrott Rifle gun; solid shot
Locations & Lines:	Canal Basin (Richmond VA); Richmond VA; Virginia
Military Units:	CS Army; US Army
Structures & Establishments:	Custom House (Richmond VA); Exchange Bank (Richmond VA); St. Pauls Episcopal Church (Richmond VA); State Capitol (Richmond VA); Sycamore Church (Richmond VA)
Sources:	Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection; Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society says: Richmond Across the Canal Basin Showing Ruined Buildings, Capitol in Distance, April, 1865.

Library of Congress says: View taken from south side of canal basin, Richmond, Va., – April, 1865–showing Capitol, Custom House, etc.

Etched onto negative: Ruins Richmond. 562.

Seeing the Civil War