Image ID: AJCK

Photographic War History. The War for the Union. 1861-1865. No. 173. How Sherman’s Boys Fixed the Railroad. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]

Abdill, Civil War Railroads, p15: This view taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan in October of 1863 shows the line of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad between Bristow Station and the Rappahannock River. Confederates have destroyed the track by heating the rails over burning piles of ties. The tangle of telegraph wire in the foreground bears mute witness to the fate of the lines of communication.

Written on negative: 173.