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Photographer: Internet Archive
Caption: Section of Fort Runyon, Va.
Guarding the Road to Alexandria
Additional Description: Occupied by
The Twenty-First Regiment, New York Volunteers,
August, 1861.
“Fort Runyon, named after the commander of the New Jersey regiments which were formerly stationed there, entirely commanded the road to Alexandria. Our sketch shows the battery erected on this important point, The spot was a most picturesque one, commanding a splendid view all around, the background being the Potomac and Washington.”
From Frank Leslie's Scenes and Portraits of the Civil War by Frank Leslie, 1894.
Submitted: January 21, 2021, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p564702
File Size: 2.068 Megabytes

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