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Large Raft of Blanket Boats Ferrying Infantry Across the Potomac River
Creator
A. J. RussellAmerican Photographer · 1830–1902
All works by this person →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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- July 1863
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
View of blanket boats lashed together on the Potomac River. The boats are filled with men to ferry them across. A rope hangs low above the boat and runs from one side of the river to the other so that the occupants of the boat can pull it across. Several men sit on the riverbank in the background to observe in front of blanket boats resting on the grass.
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