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File Details: AACKm, 600 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 17.5 Mb

Image ID: AACK

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1863.04.18

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

crate; long gun; saw; telegraph pole; telegraph wire

Locations & Lines:

Bull Run VA; Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Structures & Establishments:

O&A Bridge (b) (Bull Run VA)

Sources:

Boston Athenaeum; Huntington Library; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; Metropolitan Museum of Art

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. No. 45. Part of Construction Corps building new Military Truss Bridge across Bull Run, April, 1863.

The Getty Museum says: Part of construction corps building new military Haupt truss bridge across Bull Run. Several men are working on bridge. There is a log cabin in background on left-hand side and remnants of a wooden structure stands in stream on right-hand side of photo. Title on mount: Haupt Truss, Bull Run. [April 18, 1863]

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