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President Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.
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May 13, 2013 06:00 AM
Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front, of Abraham Lincoln, future 16th President of the United States, taken by Nicholas H. Shepherd. Photograph taken ca. 1846 or 1847. This daguerreotype is the earliest-known photograph of Abraham ...
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May 13, 2013 06:00 AM
View of the Gunboat Commodore McDonough in the distance with Union soldiers sitting in rowboat in foreground. Photograph taken between July and August 1863 on Morris Island, Charleston, South Carolina.
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May 12, 2013 06:00 AM
Looking out over Sickel Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. A group of soldiers can be seen conferring in the foreground of the facilities.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Looking out over Sickel Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia toward Fairfax Seminar. Photograph taken on January 5, 1865.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
General view of a Confederate Army hospital near Petersburg, Virginia. Photograph taken April 1865.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
General view of a railroad bridge on the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad crossing the Potomac River. Photograph taken in July 1864.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
"Rebecca, A Slave Girl from New Orleans" Portrait of Rebecca Huger, facing right. As part of a propaganda campaign to garner sympathy for the cause of emancipation for the Negro slaves, white children were in a number of instances, photographed and ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
"Isaac and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans" Portrait of Isaac White and Rosina "Rosa" Downs standing arm-in-arm, facing front. As part of a propaganda campaign to garner sympathy for the cause of emancipation for the Negro slaves, white ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
"Our Protection. Rose, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans." Portrait of freed slaves Rosina Downs, Charley Taylor, and Rebecca Huger, each wrapped in a portion of the U.S. flag. As part of a propaganda campaign to garner sympathy for ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph showing members of the construction corps engaged in building portable bridge trusses.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
General view of the construction yard in Alexandria, VA where members of the construction corps are seen finishing portable bridge trusses.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph showing men atop their bridge during testing on a third series of experiments with board trusses. The bridge was built for the purpose of testing its strength to the breaking point.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
A couple trains are seen here along the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire (AL&H) Railroad near the Junction of the Washington and Alexandria Railway in Northern Virginia.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
View of the docks at Alexandria, Virginia, where railroad cars are loaded and unloaded onto barges on the Potomac River. From here, goods could move either inland via rail or waterway to waiting troops of the Union Army.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Train wreck caused by the fracture of an axle on a railroad car traveling along the Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad line in Northern Virginia. The accident occurred on March 28, 1863. A large group of men is seen here attempting to clear ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph partially shows a section of both the railroad and wagon access to Burnside Wharf at Youbedam Point in Stafford County, Virginia. General Ambrose Burnside rebuilt Aquia Landing in November 1862 to supply his army during the Fredericksburg ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
General Herman Haupt testing a boat made of a pair of small pontoons on the Potomac River. Haupt was a both a civil and railroad construction engineer and executive, who during his time in the Union Army revolutionized military transportation.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Example of a pocket auger used in the construction of the frames of "blanket boats." These DIY boats were constructed of a single rubber blanket around a wooden frame, capable of carrying a soldier, knapsack, arms, and accoutrements.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph showing a group of men holding a blanket boat and blanket boat frame. These DIY boats were constructed of a single rubber blanket around a wooden frame, capable of carrying a soldier, knapsack, arms, and accoutrements.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
A group of men are seen here crossing the Potomac River in blanket boats. These DIY boats were constructed of a single rubber blanket around a wooden frame, capable of carrying a soldier, knapsack, arms, and accoutrements.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows the construction of an experimental suspension\/truss bridge. The workers are seen loading the structure with railroad iron for the purpose of testing its strength to its breaking point. The board suspension bridge slipped its ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Looking out over the original 1842 \'cornstalks and beanpoles\' version of the Potomac Creek Bridge on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in Stafford County, VA. During the Civil War, the bridge offered the only rail access between the ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
The 1862 \'cornstalks and beanpoles\' version of the Potomac Creek Bridge on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in Stafford County, VA. During the Civil War, the bridge offered the only rail access between the Potomac River and the ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
General view during the construction of an ark (barge) at the harbor in Alexandria, Virginia. This vessel, which was 60 feet long, 20 feet wide, and from 6 to 8 feet high, was used to move supplies and\/or troops up and down the Potomac River.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
General view of an ark (barge) docked at Alexandria, Virginia. This vessel, which was 60 feet long, 20 feet wide, and from 6 to 8 feet high, was used to move supplies and\/or troops up and down the Potomac River.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Transportation on the Potomac. Cars loaded at Alexandria can be carried on barges or arks to Aquia Creek, and sent to stations where the Army of the Potomac is supplied, without break of bulk.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
View of the docks at Alexandria, Virginia, where railroad cars are loaded and unloaded onto barges on the Potomac River. From here, goods could move either inland via rail or waterway to waiting troops of the Union Army.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
This May 1865 photograph shows a stockpile of captured Confederate artillery pieces at Rocketts Landing in Richmond, Virginia waiting to be transferred up to Washington, D.C.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Rows of artillery pieces line the yard of the Washington Arsenal (now known as Fort Lesley J. McNair).
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows United States Military Railroad train going over Bull Run Bridge. Photograph taken in the spring of 1863.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
A U.S. Military Railroad train is seen here following its derailment on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad near Brandy Station, Virginia in April 1864.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph taken in April 1865 shows railroad tracks leading in to a United States Military Railroad station at Petersburg, Virginia.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows the remains of a train derailed in battle returning to Alexandria by train. This train was thrown from the track by the Rebels.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph showing an empty railway turntable at a railroad yard in Petersburg, Virginia. The word, "ambrotype" has been scrolled on a number of the buildings in the image.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
A group of soldiers tasked to the U.S. Military Railroad are seen guarding the railroad tracks at Petersburg, Virginia. The soldier in the foreground is posing next to a moveable mortar used in the protection of the line. Photograph taken on July 25,...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
A couple of Union Army soldiers stand guard at the roundhouse of the Petersburg Railroad in Petersburg, Virginia. The boxcar seen on the left reads P&WRR (Petersburg Weldon Railroad) which was a combination of the Petersburg and Weldon railway lines ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
September 1864 photograph shows railroad tracks leading to the engine house on the City Point and Army railroad line near City Point (now known as Hopewell, Virginia).
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
December 1864 photograph showing soldiers guarding a supply train on the City Point and Army railroad line near City Point (now known as Hopewell, Virginia).
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows a handful of soldiers sitting along the edge of a trestle bridge on the City Point and Army Railroad near City Point, Virginia.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows the ongoing construction on the City Point and Army railroad line at City Point (now known as Hopewell, Virginia).
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows the formation of a "Y" in the railroad tracks near City Point (now known as Hopewell, Virginia).
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows the President\'s Car, later used as Lincoln\'s funeral car, at the rail station in Alexandria, Virginia. Taken in January 1865.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
A locomotive is seen pulling away from the roundhouse on the Orange and Alexandria railroad yard in Alexandria, Virginia. Railroad signal lights are seen running up the pole in the foreground.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Looking out over the machine shops and railroad yard on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in Alexandria, Virginia, from atop the roundhouse.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows two men standing in a small flat boat near the spillway entrance to the Washington Water Works at the Great Falls of the Potomac River.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Photograph shows a United States Military Railroad locomotive, the "W.H. Whiton," and the President\'s Car, later used as Lincoln\'s funeral car, at the rail station in Alexandria, Virginia. Taken in January 1865.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Title: Great Falls, Potomac River Creator(s): Russell, Andrew J., photographer Date Created\/Published: 1864 March. Summary: Photograph shows men on rocks looking out over waterfalls. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-08255 (digital file from ...
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
Looking up 15th Street in Washington, D.C. towards the front of the Treasury Building. Photograph shows a lone man standing outside the southeast entrance.
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM
A group of Union Army soldiers are seen in this January 1865 photograph outside of the Provost Marshall\'s office at City Point (now known as Hopewell, Virginia).
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May 08, 2013 06:00 AM