African Americans of the Army of the James, digging a two hundred yard canal at Dutch Gap with shovels, Nov-Dec. 1864. The Civil War project was planned to divert the James River, that would allow Union gunboats to avoid the Confederate Battery Dantzler, as they advanced to Richmond. When General Benjamin Butler blew up the bulkheads of the excavation on New Years Day, 1865, the James River was insufficiently effected to bypass strong forts. Photo by George O. Ennis (BSLOC_2018_5_134)
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