Camp of USMRR Construction Corps, City Point

[John Hartwell]

These photographs are from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and available at archive.org. They were originally from the Massachusetts Comandery of the Loyal Legion. They are large files, and have great detail when blown up.

[https://archive.org/details/mma_military_railroad_camp_city_point_virginia_268240]

[https://archive.org/details/mma_camp_of_construction_corps_us_military_railroad_at_city_point_268191]​

 

[John Hartwell]

This is labelled as being the same camp, though the dissimilarity of canvas architecture (notably a lack of Sibley tents) may put that in doubt:

[https://archive.org/details/mma_camp_of_construction_corps_us_military_railroad_at_city_point_268110]​

 

[USS ALASKA]

Great photo! The '...one-horsepower...' horse in the foreground and the 4-4-0 ferro-equines behind.

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[1950lemans]

Amazing. I've heard that City Point became the second or third busiest port in the entire world. It's ironic that it doesn't exist anymore as a city.