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Summary
Captain Alexander's corps of engineers constructing log barricade.
Title inscribed below image.
Date inscribed below image.
Sketch of soldier on verso, with inscription: 2nd barricade after leaving Vienna on the road to Fairfax. Put in any quantity of men with axes in their shirt sleeves skirmishers with a blanket over shoulder have sack canteen and ammunition rifles. If you please put in the extreme foreground a cannon and on the left continue the woods at the side of the road and make horse and foot winding through.
Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.597)
Published with descriptive text in: New York Illustrated News, 29 July 1861, p. 193 (cover).
Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.