African American wood choppers’ hut on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad

African American wood choppers’ hut on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad. Black men, many of them formerly enslaved on the South’s railroads, chopped timber for railroad ties, bridges, and fuel for the U.S. Military Railroads. Stationed at remote camps, such as this, they also faced the constant danger of Confederate partisan and guerrilla raids.

About this Document

  • Source: African American wood choppers? hut on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad
  • Source: African American wood choppers? hut on the Orange & Alexandria Railroad
  • Publisher: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
  • Publisher: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
  • Author: Andrew J. Russell
  • Author: Andrew J. Russell
  • Date: N.D.