Image ID: AAPQ

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864.07.28

Negative Size:

10 in. x 13 in.

Equipment:

barrel; Sibley tent; wall tent

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); Quartermaster Forage Wharf Storehouse (City Point VA); USMRR Carpenter Shop (a) (City Point VA); USMRR Offices (City Point VA)

Transports:

passenger car; schooner; USMRR floating pile-driver (a), schooner; USMRR floating pile-driver (a); USMRR passenger car 6

Sources:

Boston Athenaeum; J. Paul Getty Museum; Library of Congress; National Archives; USAMHI – MOLLUS collection

Russell, United States Military Railroad Photographic Album. No. 156. – Quartermaster’s Buildings, City Point, July 28, 1864.

Butowsky, Appomattox Manor–City Point, A HIstory, p208 incorrectly says: President Lincoln’s private railroad car at City Point.

Etched onto negative: 171. City Point Store Houses & Camp of Construction Corps. 563.

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