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品名（中）	[弗吉尼亚州城市点军械码头]
品名（英）	[Ordnance Wharf, City Point, Virginia]
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.94
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Thomas C. Roche【1826 至 1895】【美国人】
创作年份	公元 1865
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 21.7 x 25.5 厘米 (8 9/16 x 10 1/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	人们对托马斯·C·罗氏早期的职业生涯知之甚少。内战期间，他为E.&；H.T.Anthony，纽约的单点视觉和立体视觉出版商和摄影用品经销商。1865年4月初，战争即将结束，罗氏接到安东尼的特别命令，为蒙哥马利·梅格斯将军工作。作为联邦军的军需官，梅格斯负责从鞋带到火炮的所有物资的采购和运输。他也是一名业余摄影师，并认识到纪实摄影在军事上的用处这幅图展示了弗吉尼亚州城市角詹姆斯河上的军械码头，展示了军事秩序和效率。码头由两名来自非洲军团的武装士兵守卫，其中一名士兵在河边仔细地勾勒出轮廓，码头支撑着一长串四肢，这是一种可拆卸的两轮车，后面拖着炮车。一条用于加快补给船卸货的铁路轨道贯穿码头。City Point由Meigs于1864年建造，是联邦军对彼得堡为期十个月的围攻的主要补给基地，这是战争的最后一次重大战役。当它被军队接管时，它是一个只有几百人口的小村庄，一年内就成为了世界上最繁忙的港口。
介绍（英）	Very little is known of the early career of Thomas C. Roche. During the Civil War, he worked for E. & H. T. Anthony, New York publishers of cartes-de-visite and stereoscopic views and distributors of photographic supplies. In early April 1865, near the war's end, Roche received special orders from Anthony to work for General Montgomery Meigs. As quartermaster of the Union Army, Meigs was responsible for the procurement and transportation of everything from bootlaces to artillery. He was also an amateur photographer and recognized the military usefulness of documentary photography. This view shows the ordnance wharf on the James River at City Point, Virginia, and exemplifies military order and efficiency. Guarded by two armed soldiers from the Corps d'Afrique, one carefully silhouetted against the river, the wharf supports a long line of limbers, the detachable two-wheeled vehicles behind which gun carriages are towed. A single railroad track used to expedite the unloading of supply ships runs the length of the wharf. Built by Meigs in 1864, City Point was the Union Army's major supply base for the ten-month siege of Petersburg, the last major campaign of the war. A small village with a population of only several hundred when it was taken over by the military, it became in one year the busiest port in the world.