Dutch Gap Canal and group of soldiers including an African American solider at the left holding a rope

by Civil War

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Unmounted albumen half stereoview. 3-1/16 inches square. Item #346672 Located on the James River in Chesterfield County, Virginia, the canal's 1864-65 construction was initiated by Union forces during the American Civil War to bypass a meander loop of the river around a peninsula known as Farrar's Island which was controlled by Confederate artillery. Miller reproduces this image his Photographic History of the Civil War vol. 5, page 243 ,

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