Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AALOm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 30.8 Mb

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Image ID: AALO

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1864-1865
Negative Size:

10 in. x 13 in.
Locations & Lines:

City Point VA; City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); James River; Virginia
Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Structures & Establishments:

Capt. Camp’s Wharf (City Point VA); Capt. Camp’s Wharf Storehouse (b) (City Point VA); Dispatcher’s and Forage Master’s Office (City Point VA); Quartermaster Forage Wharf Storehouse (City Point VA); Quartermaster’s Office – Capt. Camp’s Wharf (City Point VA); USMRR Carpenter Shop (a) (City Point VA); USMRR Engine House (City Point VA)
Transports:

schooner; USMRR floating pile driver (a); USMRR floating pile driver (b)
Sources:

Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; San Francisco MOMA

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 144. City Point R.R. Depot, looking toward Petersburg.

San Francisco MOMA: City Point Depot and Quartermaster’s Buildings .

Both of the USMRR floating pile-drivers. The Dispatcher’s Office is under construction in the middle background.

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