Seeing the Civil War

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

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Image ID: AAEM

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:

1863.02-03
Negative Size:

6.5 in. x 8.5 in.
Equipment:

gaff; telegraph pole; telegraph wire
Locations & Lines:

Virginia
Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Sources:

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

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

Cutting telegraph wire and connecting the ends, so that the point at which the connection is broken cannot be seen from the ground.

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