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File Details: APLKm, 800 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 11.4 Mb

Image ID: APLK

Credit:

by Ennis (George O.)

Date:

1865

Negative Size:

stereo

Locations & Lines:

James River and Kanawha Canal VA; Richmond Armory (Richmond VA)); Richmond VA; Virginia

Military Units:

CS Army

Structures & Establishments:

Virginia Manufactory of Arms (Richmond VA)

Sources:

Library of Congress

Photographic views of Richmond, Virginia. Ruins of the Arsenal, Richmond. Formerly Virginia State Armory, but subsequently turned over to the Confederate Government, and used as an arsenal. Here was manufactured every variety of small arms, and from which place hundreds of tons of ammunition were shipped for the work of destruction during the war. [Selden & Co. stereo card]

Library of Congress says: Photograph shows the ruins of the former Virginia State Armory along the canal in Richmond, Virginia after the Confederates abandoned the city.

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