Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

Road Crew.

June 6, 2012

Library of Congress

Richmond, Va., vicinity. Engineers building corduroy road.

Title: Richmond, Va., vicinity. Engineers building corduroy road.

June 1862

Photographer: David B. Woodbury

  • Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign
  • Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C.
  • Title from Milhollen and Mugridge.Civil War glass negative collection.  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

    Record page for this image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp2003000066/PP/


I cropped this image to frame the road crew tighter than the original, while still showing the wagons behind them.

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