Rare Historic Photos of Alexandria, Virginia, in the 1860s

#1 Fifteen-inch gun in Battery Rodgers on the Potomac, 1861

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#2 Mansion House Hospital, Mansion House Hotel before and after the Civil War, Alexandria, Virginia, 1861

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#3 The Marshall House, Alexandria, 1861

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#4 An aerial view of the U.S. Military Railroad engine barn in Alexandria, Virginia, 1862

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#5 Gen. Slough’s headquarters, St. Asaph Street, Alexandria. Post office and veteran’s reserve headquarters in middle distance, 1862

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#6 Government coal wharf, Alexandria, 1863

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#7 Soldiers’ Cemetery, Alexandria, 1862

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#8 Government Bakery, Alexandria, 1863

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#9 Bird’s-eye view of Sickel Hospital, Alexandria, 1862

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#10 Sailors on Russian frigate “Osliaba,” harbor of Alexandria, 1862

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#11 Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy — the Federal Navy, 1864

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#12 Gen. S. P. Heintzelman and group, convalescent camp, near Alexandria, 1864

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#13 Camp of 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, 1864

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#14 Quartermaster’s corrall (i.e. corral), near Alexandria, 1864

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#15 Convalescent camp, near Alexandria, 1861

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#16 Slough Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, 1864

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#17 Convalescent camp, near Alexandria, 1863

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#18 Headquarters of convalescent camp, near Alexandria, 1860s

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#19 U.S. frigate Pensacola off Alexandria, Virginia, 1860s

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#20 Interior view of a slave pen, showing the doors of cells where the slaves were held before being sold. Building address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, 1862

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#21 Fort Ellsworth, Alexandria, 1864

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#22 Soldier’s Cemetery, Alexandria, 1864

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#23 Hunting Creek Bridge, near Alexandria, 1864

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#24 Christ’s Church, Alexandria, 1860s

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#25 Queen Street warehouse, Alexandria, 1860

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#26 Alexandria, Va. Magazine in Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, 1860

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#27 Headquarters Capt. J.G.C. Lee, A.Q.M, Alexandria, 1863

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#28 Convalescent camp near Alexandria, 1863

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#29 Camp of 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, 1864

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#30 Camp of 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, 1864

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#31 Marshall House, Alexandria. Scene of death of Col. Ellsworth, 1864

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#32 Private F. E. Brownell, 11th New York Infantry, “Ellsworth’s Avenger”, 1860s

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#33 Mansion House, Alexandria, 1860s

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#34 Practice Chapel Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, 1864

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#35 Quartermaster’s Wharf, Alexandria, 1865

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#36 A group of people in front of the Marshall House at the corner of King and St. Asaph Streets, Alexandria, 1863

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#37 Fairfax Seminary, near Alexandria, 1860s

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#38 Christ’s Church, Alexandria, 1860s

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#39 Slave pen, at 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, 1860s

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#40 Fairfax Seminary, near Alexandria, 1864

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#41 Fairfax Seminary, near Alexandria, 1864

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#42 Alexandria, Va, 1860s

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#43 Building stockade, Alexandria, 1864

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#44 Quartermaster’s Wharf, Alexandria, 1860s

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#45 Freedman’s Barracks, Alexandria, 1860s

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#46 Battery Rodgers, Potomac River, near Alexandria, 1860s

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#47 Battery Rodgers, Potomac River, near Alexandria, 1860s

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#48 Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, 1860s

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#49 Battery Rodgers, (interior), vicinity, Alexandria, 1860s

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#50 Building stockade, Alexandria, 1860s

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#51 Camp of the 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, 1864

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#52 Camp of 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria, 1864

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#53 Exterior of the Price, Birch & Co. slave pen, Alexandria, 1865

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#54 Union soldiers on the steps of Lyceum Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, 1865

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#55 Wolfe Street Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, 1865

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#56 Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, 1865

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#57 Christ Church Alexandria, Virginia, 1861

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#58 Wolfe Street Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, with Tuscan Villa Hospital in the distance, 1862

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#59 Transportation on the Potomac. Cars loaded at Alexandria can be carried on barges or arks to Aquia Creek, and sent to stations where the Army of the Potomac is supplied, 1862

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#60 Marshall House, Alexandria, 1866

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#61 An exterior view of Marshall House and adjoining buildings, 1862

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#62 A woman with two Union soldiers in front of the seminary which was headquarters for the Army of the Potomac, 1862

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#63 Officers of 14th U.S. Infantry, March, 1862

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#64 African-American adults and children reading books while lined up in front of a barracks-like building. The same building is shown in “Freedman’s Barracks, Alexandria, 1860s

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#65 Grace Church General Hospital, 207-209 South Patrick Street, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863

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#66 Downtown Baptist Church Hospital, 212 South Washington Street, Alexandria, 1863

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#67 Deck view of Russian frigate “Osliaba,” harbor of Alexandria, 1863

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#68 A Union army guard and other men in front of a building designated Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves, at 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, 1865

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#69 Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, Va., interior view, April 3, 1864

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#70 Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, 1864

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#71 A ward in hospital at convalescent camp near Alexandria, 1866

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#72 Fifteen inch gun at Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, 1864

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#73 Tents used as barracks after the wood-frame barracks at Camp Slough were converted to medical buildings at Slough Hospital, 1864

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#74 Alexandria from Pioneer Mill, looking north-west, 1865

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#75 Sickel Hospital, looking toward Fairfax Seminary, January 5, 1865

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#76 New Bridge over Potomac River. On the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad, 1864

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#77 The Aqueduct Bridge., Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), 1865

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#78 View of Alexandria Bay, 1865

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#79 View near train depot showing a locomotive on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, Culpeper Court House, VA, 1862.

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#80 US military railroad boxcars travel along the Orange & Alexandria railroad line, Confederate fortifications are visible on the right, 1862.

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#81 Soldiers stand beside damaged rolling stock of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 1862

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#82 View of the tracks of the Orange & Alexandria Railroad, destroyed by the Confederates between Bristow Station and the Rappahannock, 1862.

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#83 Court House, Va. Freight train on Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Alexandria, 1862

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#84 Pope’s Head, near burnt bridge, Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 1863

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#85 New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad. Total length 5,104 feet, 1863

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#86 New bridge over Potomac River on the Washington, Alexandria and Georgetown Railroad, 1863

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#87 Engine W. H. Whiton, and President’s car, Alexandria, January,1865

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#88 Excavating for “Y” at Devereux Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 1863

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#89 Engine W. H. Whiton, and President’s car, Alexandria, 1865

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#90 Hay Wharf, Alexandria, 1863

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#91 Woodchoppers’ Huts in a Virginia Forest. On the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Wood Supplied U.S.M.R. Railroads under Supervision of Major Brayton, June 1863.

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#92 Confederate Trestle Work on Alexandria Railroad, 1861

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#93 Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge, near Union Mills, Virginia, 1863

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#94 Bull Run Orange And Alexandria RR Near Union Mills, 1865

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#95 Steam locomotive ‘Fire Fly’, used by Union troops, on a narrow field bridge of the Orange and Alexandria US Military Railroad, 1865

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#96 During the fighting on the Red River, Louisiana, a Union fleet of 33 vessels was trapped at Alexandria by low water, 1860s

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#97 Abatis surrounds the perimeter of Fort Lyon, Virginia, near where Union gunners pose with their cannons, 1860s

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#98 Rows of white grave markers fill a large Civil War cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, 1860s

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#99 A number of Union warships and transports were trapped by shallow water near Alexandria, 1864

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#100 During the American Civil War, Georgetown, D.C., served as an auxiliary port to the larger facilities at Alexandria, Virginia.

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#101 Guard boat of the Port of Alexandria, VA, 1860s

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#102 The slave pen and auction house at Alexandria, Virginia, in 1863.

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#103 The Field Hospital for the Second Army Corps, established at Brandy Station, VA, February 1864.

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#104 Rails of the Manassas Gap Railroad, Alexandria, 1863

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#105 Excavating for “Y” at Devereaux Station, Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 1863.

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#106 Bull Run. Orange and Alexandria R.R. near Union Mills, 1861

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#107 A winter view of Alexandria, Virginia, with Washington visible across the Potomac River, 1864

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#108 Union forces occupied Alexandria, 1864

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#109 Railroad Repair At Catlett’S Station, 1860s

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#110 Government hay barns, Alexandria, Va., July, 1863

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#111 Engine “E.M. Stanton,” Alexandria, July 1864

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#112 View on Pope’s Head, near burnt bridge, Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 1860

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#113 Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia, 1860s

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#114 The Marshall house, King & Pitt Streets, Alexandria, Virginia, 1860s

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#115 President’s rail car at the Alexandria station. Photograph probably taken in Jan. The car was later used as Lincoln’s funeral car, 1863

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#116 Officers of First District volunteers, City Hotel, Alexandria, 1863

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#117 Locomotive moving away from the roundhouse at the Orange & Alexandria railroad yard in Alexandria, Virginia, 1863

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#118 Marshall house, Alexandria, Virginia, 1862

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#119 Shed at carpenter shop at Alexandria, 1863

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#120 Track near the Potomac River, in Alexandria, 1863

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#121 Bird’s eye view of machine shops, with east yard of Orange & Alexandria Railroad, 1863

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#122 Ornately decorated locomotive J.H. Devereux, of the United States Military Railroad with two crew members on board outside the roundhouse at the Alexandria station, 1863

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#123 Bridge on Orange & Alexandria [Virginia] Railroad, as repaired by army engineers under Colonel Herman Haupt, 1863

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#124 A construction corps loads a bridge to test its strength, in the third of a series of experiments with board trusses, Virginia, 1863.

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#125 The ‘Firefly’ railroad engine crossing a river on a trestle, a narrow field bridge of the Orange and Alexandria US Military Railroad, 1863

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#126 Slave pen, Alexandria, 1863

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#127 U.S. Fire Department, Alexandria, Va., 1863

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#128 Wreck on the track, ready for transportation to Alexandria, 1863

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#129 Wharf at Alexandria, Va., used by U.S. Military Railroad Department, 1863

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#130 Wharf in Alexandria, Virginia from Pioneer Mill, 1863

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#131 U.S. Provost Marshal ‘s Office at Alexandria, 1862

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#132 Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, 1861

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#133 Sanitary Commission Office. Convalescent Camp, Alexandria, Virginia, 1861

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#134 Convalescent Camp Near Alexandria, 1865

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#135 Ward in Hospital Convalescent Camp, 1861

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#136 Fort Ellsworth, Alexandria, Virginia, 1865

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#137 Convalescent Camp Near Alexandria, 1861

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#138 Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia, August 1862.

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#139 A black woman holds a basket and stands among bare trees in a slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia, 1860s

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#140 Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, 1862

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#141 Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863.

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#142 Bridge On Orange And Alexandria Rail Road, 1865

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#143 Hunting Creek, near Alexandria, Virginia, 1861

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#144 The premises of Price, Birch & Co, Dealers in Slaves, at a slave market in Alexandria, Virginia, 1860.

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#145 A 15 inch Rodman gun in Battery Rodgers, Alexandria in Virginia, 1865

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#146 The crew of the Russian frigate Osliaba during the American Civil War in Alexandria, Virginia, 1863.

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#147 Drum corps, 8th New York State Militia, Alexandria, Virginia, 1861.

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#148 Mansion House Hospital, Alexandria, Virginia, 1864.

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#149 Cooks in the Kitchen of a Soldier’s Rest Home.

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#150 The military took over the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary for a hospital.

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#151 Group portrait of the crew, and a mortar gun, of an unidentified Union gunboat in port, Alexandria, Virginia, 1860s.

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#152 Workers build fortifications and barricades, Alexandria, Virginia, 1860s.

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#153 Slavery Business of Price, Birch and Company, Alexandria, VA, 1860s

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#154 USS Pensacola In Alexandria, VA, 1860s

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#155 Birch & Company, Dealers in Slaves, 1863

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#156 A US Military Rail Road (USMRR) yard full of rails to maintain Federal rail lines during the American Civil War, at Alexandria, Virginia, 1860

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#157 View of Alexandria, Virginia, tents of the 44th New York Infantry in foreground during the US civil war. Alexandria was captured by the Union in 1861.

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#158 Two soldiers stand beside slave pen cells in Alexandria, Virginia, 1861.

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#159 View of the trains yards, Alexandria, Virginia, 1862.

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#160 View of a man as he watches a locomotive pass on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, Alexandria, Virginia, 1862.

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#161 Birds eye of Alexandria, Virginia, 1863.

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#162 Wood burning locomotive “Gen. Haupt” named for Herman Haupt, chief of Construction and Transportation, in front of the roundhouse at the Alexandria station, 1863

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#163 Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia, 1863

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#164 Barricades on Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia during the US civil war, 1861

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#165 Washington Street, Alexandria, Virginia during the US civil war, 1861.

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#166 Laborers At Quartermasters Wharf, 1863

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