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IMAGO Andrew J. Russell Archive, USA, American Civil War 1861-1865

Apr 24, 2026

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  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Second Battle of Fredericksburg, American Civil War, 1863 (1955). Creator: Andrew Joseph Russell. Copyright:x2924x IMAGO ,2365470 ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:2924x IMAGO
  • Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge, near Union Mills, Virginia ca. 1863 Andrew Joseph Russell American A. J. Russell, a captain in the 141st New York Infantry Volunteers, was one of the few Civil War photographers who also was a soldier. As a photographer-engineer for the U.S. Military Railroad Construction Corps, Russell was responsible for recording both the technical accomplishments of General Herman Haupt s engineers and the battlefields and campsites in Virginia. This view of soldiers and civilians below and upon a railroad bridge also shows a burned blockhouse (upper left corner) designed by Haupt and intended to protect a vital creek crossing.. Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge, near Union Mills, Virginia . Andrew Joseph Ru Copyright: xpiemagsx Metbot-137709
  • Rebel Cassion Destroyed by Federal Shells. At Fredericksburgh, May 3, 1863. Eight Horses Killed. May 3, 1863 Andrew Joseph Russell This photograph is as close to a spot-news battlefield view as was technically possible during the Civil War. Made just hours after a fierce fight above Fredericksburg, Virginia, the haunting picture shows the destruction by heavy artillery shell of a Confederate caisson (a two-wheeled vehicle for artillery ammunition) and its team of eight horses. On the afternoon the Union Sixth Corps captured Marye™s Heights (during the second battle of Fredericksburg), Andrew Joseph Russell crossed the Rappahannock River with his friend and superior officer General Herman Haupt, commander of the United States Military Rail Copyright: xpiemagsx Metbot-31807
  • Woodchoppers Huts in a Virginia Forest. On the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Wood Supplied U.S.M.R. Railroads under Supervision of Major Brayton June 1863 Andrew Joseph Russell Commissioned by the United States Military Railroad to document all its operations, Russell seized the opportunity to record perhaps the most curious habitations of the Civil War: the crude, teepee-shaped mud and timber dwellings built by migratory woodcutters along the forested route of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad in northern Virginia. The habitations were constructed and primarily inhabited by African American men employed by the Union army to chop timber for railroad ties and bridges and fuel for military locomotives.. Woodchoppers Huts in a Virginia Forest Copyright: xpiemagsx Metbot-31806
  • Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge, near Union Mills, Virginia , ca. 1863, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 12.3 x 20.1 cm (4 13 16 x 7 15 16 in.), Photographs, Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830–1902), A. J. Russell, a captain in the 141st New York Infantry Volunteers, was one of the few Civil War photographers who also was a soldier. As a photographer-engineer for the U.S. Military Railroad Construction Corps, Russell was responsible for recording both the technical accomplishments of General Herman Haupt s engineers and the battlefields and campsites in Virginia Copyright: Artokoloro AM170720_055134
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