. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . PROTECTING LOCOMOTIVES FROM THE CONFEDERATE RAIDER The United States railroad photographer. Captain A. J. Russell, labeled this picture of 1864: Engines stored in Washington to pre-vent their falling into Rebel hands in case of a raid on Alexandria. Here they are. almost under the shadow of the Capitol domei which had just been completed). This was one of the precautions taken by the authorities at Washington, of which the generalpublic knew little or nothin
. The Civil War through the camera : hundreds of vivid photographs actually taken in Civil War times, together with Elson's new history . PROTECTING LOCOMOTIVES FROM THE CONFEDERATE RAIDER The United States railroad photographer. Captain A. J. Russell, labeled this picture of 1864: Engines stored in Washington to pre-vent their falling into Rebel hands in case of a raid on Alexandria. Here they are. almost under the shadow of the Capitol domei which had just been completed). This was one of the precautions taken by the authorities at Washington, of which the generalpublic knew little or nothing at the time. These photographs are only now revealing official secrets recorded fifty years ONE OF WASHINGTONS DEFENDFUS Heavy artillery like this was of comparatively little use in repulsing such an attack as Early might be expected to make. Not onlywere these guns hard to move to points of danger, but in the summer of 64 there were no trained artillerists to man them. Big asthey were, they gave Early no occasion for alarm. 7 € VmmM~7K^ \\t Hafii (EoufitrtH in ihf ^lmtaufonah •$• *
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