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Title: General Haupt's Way of Crossing Rivers
Creator: Russell, Andrew J., photographer
Contributor: Clough, J. B. (Joel Barber), 1823-1881. (collector)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Brigadier General Herman Haupt (a civil engineer for the Union Army) in the Potomac River on a float made of two small rubber cylinders, commonly used for scouting purposes. There are two ships sailing in the background and random pieces of wood raising out of the water on both sides of the general. Title on mount: Gen. Haupt's way of crossing rivers. Handwritten in upper left corner: No. 40.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; image 15 x 20 cm, mount 23 x 27 cm.
Identifier: photCL 301 (8)
396476
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/264
Subject: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Haupt, Herman, 1817-1905
United States--Virginia--Potomac River
Albumen prints--1860-1870. (gmgpc)
Source: Joel B. Clough Collection of United States Military Railroad Photographs by Andrew J. Russell.
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Gift of Frank Clough, Capt. Clough's grandson, July 25, 1975.

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