[Stockade built by General Haupt for Protection of Government Property, Orange & Alexandria R.R., Alexandria, Virigina]

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[Stockade built by General Haupt for Protection of Government Property, Orange & Alexandria R.R., Alexandria, Virigina]

Creator

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
September 1863
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
American
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Men building a stockade around a railroad station. Some men are also digging a low trench in front of the stockade.

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