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Image ID: AAGK

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864.04

Negative Size:

11 in. x 14 in.

Equipment:

telegraph pole

Locations & Lines:

Orange & Alexandria Railroad (O&A); Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Transports:

USMRR locomotive Commodore

Sources:

Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; National Archives; Swann Galleries; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection; Virginia Historical Society; William L. Clements Library

The USMRR locomotive “Commodore,” derailed by rebels near Brandy Station on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in April of 1864.

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 133. Engine “Government” [sic] down the “banks” near Brandy, April 1864.

Etched onto negative: 67. Picking up debris of trains Popes Retreat.