Seeing the Civil War

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Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1863.04
Negative Size:

11 in. x 14 in.
Equipment:

railroad switch; telegraph pole
Locations & Lines:

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

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

USMRR Offices (Alexandria VA) ; USMRR Superintendent’s Quarters (Alexandria VA)
Transports:

flatcar; locomotive; USMRR boxcar 1236
Sources:

Cowan Auctions; DeGolyer Library SMU; Gilder Lehrman Institute; Huntington Library; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; National Archives; Rosenbach Museum; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Viewed from the top of the O&A Round House in April of 1863, USMRR box car No. 1236 and twenty others, along with eight flat cars, sit on various tracks that converge heading west from the USMRR compound in Alexandria, Va. In the left foreground is one end of the USMRR Offices, and just beyond it one end of the Superintendent’s Quarters. A ghostly locomotive as at bottom.

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 125. – Orange & Alexandria Railroad, View from “Round House.”

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