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Title: A history of the Fifth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 (electronic resource)
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Child, William, b. 1834
Subjects: United States. Army. New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1865)
Publisher: Bristol, N.H. : R.W. Musgrove, printer
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
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n, andI know some that didnt fetch it till morning. The writer has given an account of the Grapevine bridge asabove, from private to colonel. These accounts agree in allessentials. That it was a substantial, solid, useful and permanent structure is true beyond a doubt. That it was ex-ceedingly useful to the country is true; and that it savedthe left wing of the Army of the Potomac is evident, as theaccount of the battle of Fair Oaks will show That it waswholly the production of the officers and men of the FifthRegiment, is also true, with the exception of a comparativelysmall detail, as related. While some acknowledge the im-portance of the structure, yet they do not allow proper creditto its builders. Grapevine bridge was built across the Chickahominy river,some six miles above the crossing of the Williamsburg andRichmond stage-road at Bottoms bridge, for the passage ofSedgwicks Division of Sumners Corps of the Army of thePotomac, from the north to the south side. It was built in two
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X; 6 GRAPEVINE BRIDGE. 73 daj-s, May 27 and 28, 1862, by the Fifth Regiment, directedby Colonel Edward E. Cross, aided bj a detail of two hundredand fifty men from the Sixty-fourth Regiment New YorkVolunteers, and one hundred and fiftj^ men from MeaghersIrish Brigade. More than one thousand men were employedin its construction, working constantly and vigoroush in thewater and mud. It was built wholly of logs, unsawn andunhewn, cut from the forest as required, being rolled orfloated into position bj^ men wading or swimming. Thechannels and deeper parts of the swamp were bridged byfelling or floating large trees across and fixing them uponpiers made of logs, to stumps, or to the firm earth upon eitherbank. Other stringers were placed upon the bottom of theshallows, all being about upon the same level. Thus a con-tinuous support for a roadwaj was laid for a distance ofseventy- rods. Then, upon these stringers, were laid, trans-verseh as planks might be, other logs, as long as the bridgew

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