Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AQTS

Credit:

by O’Sullivan (Timothy H.)
Date:

1864.05.24
Negative Size:

8 in. x 10 in.
Equipment:

bridge pontoon (canvas); mule; pickaxe; shovel
Locations & Lines:

Jericho Mills VA; North Anna River VA; Virginia
Military Units:

5th Corps; 50th New York Engineers; 50th New York Engineers (Company H); Army of the Potomac; US Army
Structures & Establishments:

Jericho Mills (Jericho Mills VA); Jericho Mills pontoon bridge (North Anna River VA)
Transports:

bridge pontoon wagon; freight wagon
Sources:

Library of Congress; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Library of Congress says: Jericho Mills, Virginia. 50th New York Engineers constructing road on south bank of North Anna River.

Miller, Photographic History of the Civil War, Vol. 5, p221 says: A Closer View Making The Dirt Fly. Here the reader comes closer to the line of sturdy engineers exerting their muscles in behalf of the Union, The train is over the bridge by this time; only a single wagon is seen probably attached to the engineering corps. Farther up the river a number of the men on this detail have gone in swimming. A couple of tents are visible on the bank near the end of the bridge. The busy diggers do not even glance at the men floating on the river below. They are making a road where an army has to pass.

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