Confederate Method of Destroying Rail Roads at McCloud Mill, Virginia, 1863, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image: 16.2 × 19.6 cm (6 3/8 × 7 11/16 in.), Photographs, Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830–1902), Russell made several photographs of the discovery by the Union army of the simple but effective method developed by the Confederates to destroy Union railroad track. Using the ties as fuel, the soldiers stacked the iron rails in X formations and burned them until they could be twisted and made unusable
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