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Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: Remains of Fort Jackson, at the Long Bridge
Additional Description: “This is from a sketch made by the author at the close of April, 1865, and shows the embankments of Fort Jackson on the right, and the remains of the pickets, with the railway, in the foreground. On the left is a public house of entertainment, and just beyond it is seen a portion of the Long Bridge. The Capitol is seen in the distance.” – B. J. Lossing.
from The Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War in the United States of America by Benson John Lossing, 1874, Vol. 1, page 582.
Submitted: January 14, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p563005
File Size: 1.361 Megabytes

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