Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia. Artist: Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830-1902). Dimensions: Image: 25.6 x 36.5cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/8in.)Mount: 12 3/16 × 16 9/16 in. (31 × 42 cm). Date: 1863.Better known for his later views commissioned by the Union Pacific Railroad, A. J. Russell, a captain in the 141st New York Infantry Volunteers, was one of the few Civil War photographers who was also a soldier. As a photographer-engineer for the U.S. Military Railroad Con struction Corps, Russell's duty was to make a historical record of both the technical accomplishments of General Herman Haupt's engineers and the battlefields and camp sites in Virginia. This view of a slave pen in Alexandria guarded, ironically, by Union officers shows Russell at his most insightful; the pen had been converted by the Union Army into a prison for captured Confederate soldiers.Between 1830 and 1836, at the height of the American cotton market, the District of Columbia, which at that time included Alexandria, Vi

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Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia. Artist: Andrew Joseph Russell (American, 1830-1902). Dimensions: Image: 25.6 x 36.5cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/8in.)Mount: 12 3/16 × 16 9/16 in. (31 × 42 cm). Date: 1863.Better known for his later views commissioned by the Union Pacific Railroad, A. J. Russell, a captain in the 141st New York Infantry Volunteers, was one of the few Civil War photographers who was also a soldier. As a photographer-engineer for the U.S. Military Railroad Con struction Corps, Russell's duty was to make a historical record of both the technical accomplishments of General Herman Haupt's engineers and the battlefields and camp sites in Virginia. This view of a slave pen in Alexandria guarded, ironically, by Union officers shows Russell at his most insightful; the pen had been converted by the Union Army into a prison for captured Confederate soldiers.Between 1830 and 1836, at the height of the American cotton market, the District of Columbia, which at that time included Alexandria, Vi

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