Image ID: ABKX

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864.12

Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

12-pounder Napoleon gun; bayonet; caisson; cannon; field carriage; ladder; limber; long gun

Locations & Lines:

City Point VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Structures & Establishments:

USMRR Car Repair Shop (City Point VA) ; USMRR Construction Corps Gang Houses (City Point VA); USMRR Engine House (City Point VA); USMRR Sand House (City Point VA)

Sources:

Library of Congress

African-american soldier guarding 12-pound Napoleon gun and row of limbers and caissons on the track leading to the coal and ordinance wharves, with the long US Military Railroad Engine House in the background, and the Gang Houses behind it on the right, at City Point, VA.

Anthony No. 2583.

Etched onto negative: 108. 2583.