. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COMPLETING TIIE {RICADE AT _VLEX.\.\L)1{IA \ATieii Brigadier-GcniTal Her-man Haupt was put in chargeof all the railroads centeringin Washington in 18G1 hisfirst care was ti-i safeguardthem as far as possible fromthe destructive Confetlcrateraiders. He built a stockadearound the machine shops andyard of the Orange & Alex-andria Railroad, with block-houses at the points mostvulnerable to raiders. Thecitizens of Alexandria, terri-fied by their exposed positionacross the Potomac close tothe battlefield of Bull Run,entrenched themse
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . COMPLETING TIIE {RICADE AT _VLEX.\.\L)1{IA \ATieii Brigadier-GcniTal Her-man Haupt was put in chargeof all the railroads centeringin Washington in 18G1 hisfirst care was ti-i safeguardthem as far as possible fromthe destructive Confetlcrateraiders. He built a stockadearound the machine shops andyard of the Orange & Alex-andria Railroad, with block-houses at the points mostvulnerable to raiders. Thecitizens of Alexandria, terri-fied by their exposed positionacross the Potomac close tothe battlefield of Bull Run,entrenched themselves as bestthey could, before the greatforts about them were com-pleted. The lower view is. luoking up Duke Street fromPioneer !Mill. The heavystockade, inside the city, sug-gests how acute were theappreheasions of its inhabi-tants. The barrier is solidenough to stop a cavalrycharge, with the big gattsclosed. A couple of fieldpieces, however, could batterit down in short order. Laterin the war, such stockades asthis would have been built\\\[h twenty-five feet of earthbanked up in front of the hurried preparationsshown in the photograph, thetide (if war rolled away intosouthern Virginia. The stock-ade for a wiiile remained as amemento of a passing fear. A STOCKADE LN THE STREET r^
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