Military Railroad Bridge across Potomac Creek, on the Fredericksburg Railroad

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Military Railroad Bridge across Potomac Creek, on the Fredericksburg Railroad

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A. J. Russell

American Photographer · 1830–1902

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Andrew Joseph Russell, a captain in the volunteer infantry, became a photographer during the American Civil War. As photographer-engineer for the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps, he was assigned to photograph battlefields and campsites in Virginia. He also photographed engineering projects and contributed images to what was probably the world's first technical manual illustrated

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Date
March 1863
Medium
Salted paper print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
e2399f52-48cd-4af7-9873-235caf1aae93

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View of the Potomac Creek Bridge along the Fredericksburg Railroad. The wooden trestle bridge sits among the railroad tracks that curve and stretch out across the landscape of Virginia to carry military supplies to Union troops.

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