Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap – Antique Print
![Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap, [1864 October] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/77/77f1a38ed49e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap, preserved in this historic drawing. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gen Butlers Canal at Dutch Gap
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Dutch Gap, a neck of land on the James River in Virginia, is where Union Gen. Benjamin F. Butler ordered a canal dug in 1864 to bypass a sharp bend of the river. The drawing shows the project at work, with soldiers and wagons crowding the cut as men labored to move earth. Butler hoped the channel would let Union gunboats slip past Confederate batteries and approach Richmond and Petersburg without running that gauntlet. The work was slow and was later abandoned in favor of other operations, but the drawing records the scale of the effort.
| Created / published | [1864 October] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing on light olive paper : pencil, Chinese white & black ink wash ; 17 x 49.1 cm. (sheet). |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Subjects | Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin),--1818-1893--Military service. Canals--1860-1870. Carts & wagons--1860-1870. Soldiers--Union--1860-1870. Construction--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Transportation. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Economic & industrial aspects. Petersburg (Va.)--History--Siege, 1864-1865.United States--Virginia--Dutch Gap |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 512 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-112370 |
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