Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, built by the U.S.M.R.R. Construction Corps, C.F. Nagle, supervisor / photographed by Capt. A.J. Russell, chief of Photographic Corps, U.S.M.R.R.

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Military railroad bridge over Potomac Creek on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad, built by the U.S.M.R.R. Construction Corps, C.F. Nagle, supervisor / photographed by Capt. A.J. Russell, chief of Photographic Corps, U.S.M.R.R.

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Photograph shows a trestle railroad bridge built of timber by the United States Military Railroad Construction Corps over Potomac Creek.
Printed below image: Total length, 414 feet. Height, 82 feet. Contains 204,000 feet timber board measure. Work begun Friday, May 20, 1864, at 5 A.M. Train passed over May 22d, at 4 P.M. Actual time of construction, 40 hours.

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01/01/1864
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Russell, Andrew J., photographer
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