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[Tenn. - Nashville - the railroad bridge over the Cumberland..."]" – Antique Wall Art

[Tenn. - Nashville - the railroad bridge over the Cumberland..."]", 1862 — antique engraving
[Tenn. - Nashville - the railroad bridge over the Cumberland..."]", 1862. Antique engraving from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(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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The engraving shows the railroad bridge that spanned the Cumberland River at Nashville, Tennessee, a crossing that made the city a key link in the rail network of the upper South. Nashville fell to Union forces in February 1862, and both armies understood that control of its rail lines and river crossings could decide supply routes for the campaigns that followed. The image appeared in *Harper's Weekly* that year, when such engravings gave northern readers their main view of the war's western theater. The record's details are unverified, so the picture is best read as a period depiction of a strategic structure rather than a precise survey.

Created / published1862
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
NotesIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1862, p. 153. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,000 × 2,275 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123255

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