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File:USMRR Potomac Creek Bridge.jpg

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Description
English: The Haupt bridge across Potomac Creek on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad constructed during the Civil War. On May 28, 1862, President Lincoln told members of the War Committee that he had "seen the most remarkable structure that human eyes ever rested upon. That man Haupt [General Herman Haupt, Commander of the United States Military Railroad] has built a bridge four hundred feet long and one hundred feet high, across Potomac Creek, on which loaded trains are passing every hour, and upon my word, gentlemen, there is nothing in it but cornstalks and beanpoles." In May 1862, using unskilled infantry, Haupt rebuilt this destroyed by Confederates bridge in only nine rainy days, however, with considerably more than cornstalks and beanpoles.
  • Medium: 1 photographic print : salted paper.
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-10325 (digital file from original photo, front) LC-DIG-ppmsca-10326 (digital file from original photo, back) LC-USZ62-51806 (b&w film copy neg.)
  • Call Number: LOT 9209, no. 13 [P&P]
  • Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Date [ca. 1862 or 1863]
Source

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsca/10300/10325v.jpg

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsca.10325.
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Author
Andrew J. Russell  (1829–1902)  wikidata:Q4757433
 
Andrew J. Russell
Alternative names
Andrew Joseph Russell; A. J. Russell; Capt. A. J. Russel
Description American photographer
Date of birth/death 20 March 1829 Edit this at Wikidata 22 September 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Walpole Edit this at Wikidata Brooklyn Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1862-1902
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creator QS:P170,Q4757433
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