Image ID: AALO

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864-1865

Negative Size:

10 in. x 13 in.

Locations & Lines:

City Point VA; City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); James River; Virginia

Military Units:

US Military Railroads (USMRR); US Army

Structures & Establishments:

Capt. Camp’s Wharf (City Point VA); Capt. Camp’s Wharf Storehouse (b) (City Point VA); Dispatcher’s and Forage Master’s Office (City Point VA); Quartermaster Forage Wharf Storehouse (City Point VA); Quartermaster’s Office – Capt. Camp’s Wharf (City Point VA); USMRR Carpenter Shop (a) (City Point VA); USMRR Engine House (City Point VA)

Transports:

schooner; USMRR floating pile driver (a); USMRR floating pile driver (b)

Sources:

Gilder Lehrman Institute; Library of Congress; San Francisco MOMA

Equipment:

pile driver

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 144. City Point R.R. Depot, looking toward Petersburg.

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 137.–City Point R.R. Depot, Flotilla of Transports and Barges in the distance.

San Francisco MOMA: City Point Depot and Quartermaster’s Buildings .

Both of the USMRR floating pile-drivers. The Dispatcher’s Office is under construction in the middle background.

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