Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AAACm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 17.6 Mb

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Image ID: AAAC

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1863.02-03
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.
Equipment:

rope
Locations & Lines:

Alexandria VA; Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Potomac River; Virginia
Military Units:

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

USMRR Wharf (Alexandria VA)
Transports:

flatcar; USMRR locomotive Monitor
Sources:

Huntington Library; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress

USMRR locomotive “Monitor” at the Railroad Wharf on the Potomac in Alexandria, Va.

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 3. Exhibits the surface of a pair of barges, showing the tracks for loading and unloading cars, also the movable bridges by which the tracks on the floats are connected with those on the wharf.

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