Seeing the Civil War

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Image ID: AAKT

Credit:	by Russell (Andrew J.)
Date:	1865.06
Negative Size:	8 in. x 11 in.
Military Units:	US Military Railroads (USMRR); USMRR Construction Corps; US Army
Structures & Establishments:	USMRR Wharf (Manchester VA)
Transports:	boxcar; schooner
Sources:	Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection
Locations & Lines:	James River; Manchester VA; Richmond VA; Rockett’s Landing (Richmond VA); Virginia

Library of Congress says: View on the dock on south side of James River opposite Rocketts, Richmond, Va., April, 1865.

Gilder Lehrman: Derrick built by the U. S. Military Railroad Construction Corps for unloading cars and engines, Richmond; June 1865.

Etched onto negative: 713. Wharf at Manchester.