Image ID: AICN

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1864-1865
Negative Size:	8 in. x 11 in.
Equipment:	barrel; crate; portable steam engine; sawhorse
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:	Building 65 (City Point VA); Capt. Camps Wharf (City Point VA); Capt. Camps Wharf Storehouse (b) (City Point VA); Quartermaster Forage Wharf Storehouse (City Point VA); Quartermasters Office – Capt. Camps Wharf (City Point VA); USMRR Wharf (City Point VA)
Transports:	boxcar; schooner
Sources:	National Archives

National Archives says: City Point Docks, Va.

From the Railroad Wharf, looking north, showing activity at Camps Wharf. The two-story building at left is the Quartermaster Department Office, and just beyond it is the first of the Camps Wharf Storehouses. The second, a clothing storehouse, would soon be constructed just beyond it, completing the Capt. Camps Wharf complex. In the distance can be seen the Forage Wharf Storehouse, with USMRR box cars on the wharf-side tracks. A variety of vessels line the long wharves.

Etched onto negative: 163.

Seeing the Civil War

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