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File Details: ABQBm, 1400 DPI, TIFF, Original Negative, 46.3 Mb

Image ID: ABQB

Credit:

by Russell (Andrew J.)

Date:

1864.11.20

Negative Size:

4.5 in. x 10 in. stereo

Equipment:

chain

Locations & Lines:

Dutch Gap Canal VA; Virginia

Military Units:

Army of the James; US Army

Sources:

Library of Congress

Susan E. Williams, (who credits Thomas C. Roche), The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 110, No. 4, p452: [On] the north bank of the James, [Andrew J. Russell and Roche] stood together to photograph the Dutch Gap Canal as army engineers prepared to blast open the ditch for navigation.

Anthony No. 2549.

Etched onto negative: 2549.