Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AMQYm, 300 DPI, JPEG, Halftone Photograph, .4 Mb

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Image ID: AMQY

Credit:

unknown photographer
Date:

1865
Equipment:

bell
Locations & Lines:

Louisiana ; New Orleans LA; New Orleans Opelousas & Great Western Railroad (NOO&GW)
Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Structures & Establishments:

NOO&GW Algiers Station (New Orleans LA)
Transports:

USMRR locomotive Col. Holabird
Sources:

Private collection

Abdill, Civil War Railroads, p183: While the Union forces were in control of Louisiana, the shops of the New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad turned out this 4-4-0 woodburner, erected under the supervision of the U.S. Quarter Master Department. The engine was named the COL. HOLABIRD.

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