. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE ARMY PHOTOGRAPHER AHEAD OF THE WRECKING-TRAIN When the Confederate cavalry made life a burden for the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps in the vicinity of Wash-ington, the enterprising photographers on their part were not idle. This photograph shows the engine Commodore derailed andlying on its side. Even before the wrecking crew could be rushed to the scene, the photographer had arrived, as is attested by the bottleof chemicals, the developing tray, and the negative rack in the right foreground, as well as the
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THE ARMY PHOTOGRAPHER AHEAD OF THE WRECKING-TRAIN When the Confederate cavalry made life a burden for the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps in the vicinity of Wash-ington, the enterprising photographers on their part were not idle. This photograph shows the engine Commodore derailed andlying on its side. Even before the wrecking crew could be rushed to the scene, the photographer had arrived, as is attested by the bottleof chemicals, the developing tray, and the negative rack in the right foreground, as well as the photograph itself. Every negative hadto be developed within five minutes after the exposure, a fact which makes all the more marvellous the brilliant work that was accom-plished. In the buggy and wagon shown in the lower picture, Brady safely transported glass plates wherever an army could
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