Seeing the Civil War

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File Details: AAHEm, 400 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 26.8. Mb

Image ID: AAHE

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1864.05.18
Negative Size:	14 in. x 17 in.
Equipment:	Barbette carriage (center pintle-iron); cannon; rammer staff; Rodman gun; sponge staff
Locations & Lines:	Alexandria VA; Battery Rodgers (Alexandria VA); Virginia
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army
Structures & Establishments:	USMRR Wharf (Alexandria VA)
Sources:	Colgate University; Gilder Lehrman Institute; Huntington Library; Library of Congress

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 246. – FIFTEEN INCH GUN AT BATTERY RODGERS, Alexandria, Va. May 18, 1864.

The print at the Huntington Library has a handwritten title on the mount: Water Battery (400 Pounder) Alex Va.