Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: ABBW

Credit:

unknown photographer
Date:

1863.04
Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:

bell
Locations & Lines:

Clifton VA; O&A Devereux Station (Clifton VA); Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Virginia
Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Persons:

Devereux (John H.)
Transports:

USMRR locomotive Gen. Haupt/Gen. J. C. Robinson
Sources:

DeGolyer Library SMU; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Engine ”Gen. Haupt”, U.S. Military Railroad, at Devereux Station. The man in the cap, standing just outside the locomotive cab, appears to be John H. Devereux, Superintendent of U.S. Military Railroads in Virginia.

The MOLLUS collection says: Built by William Mason, Taunton Mass. Jan 19, 1863.

Abdill, Civil War Railroads, p9.

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