Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AIGEm, 300 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 7.2 Mb

Image ID: AIGE

Credit:	unknown photographer
Date:	1864
Negative Size:	8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:	Barbette carriage (center pintle-iron); bayonet; cannon; long gun; Rodman gun
Locations & Lines:	Alexandria VA; Battery Rodgers (Alexandria VA); Potomac River; Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Structures & Establishments:	USMRR Wharf (Alexandria VA)
Transports:	schooner
Sources:	Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection; Vernacular Photography

The MOLLUS Collection, handwritten on mount: Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, Va, on right bank of Potomac.

Etched onto negative: No. 3 [crossed out]. 95.

Miller, The Photographic History Of The Civil War, Vol. 5, p87.