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

Image ID: AAED

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1863.02-03

Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.

Equipment:

rail

Locations & Lines:

Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Union Mills VA; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Sources:

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

Haupt, United States Military Railway Department. Construction And Transportation. Unnumbered plate.

Huntington Library says: Confederate mode of destroying track at McCloud’s Mill. Two piles of stacked railroad ties under metal rails arranged in X formations. Title on mount: Destroying RR Tracks, Rebel Raid, destruction of tracks.