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U. S. CIVIL WAR
PHOTOGRAPHS |
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JEB STUART'S RIDE
AROUND MCCLELLAN
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![]() Route (in red) from Tunstall's Station, upper left, to St. Peter's Church, Talleysville, and the Olivet Church, lower right.
![]() Talleysville.
![]() Road to Olivet Church. ![]() Olivet Church. ![]() Olivet Church. ![]() Route (in red) from Olivet Church, upper center, to the Malvern Hill Battlefield, middle left.
...At 12 o’clock at night the march was continued without incident under the most favorable auspices to Forge Bridge (8 miles), over the Chickahominy, where we arrived just at daylight. Lee, of the Ninth, by personal experiment having found the stream not fordable, axes were sent for and every means taken to overcome the difficulties by improvised bridges and swimming. I immediately dispatched to you information of my situation and asked for the diversion already referred to. The progress in crossing was very slow at the point chosen, just above Forge Bridge, and learning that at the bridge proper enough of the debris of the old bridge remained to facilitate the construction of another, material for which was afforded by a large warehouse adjacent, I moved to that point at once. Lieut. Redmond Burke, who in every sphere has rendered most valuable service and deserves the highest consideration at the hands of the Government, set to work with a party to construct the bridge. A foot-bridge was soon improvised, and the horses were crossed over as rapidly as possible by swimming. Burke's work proceeded like magic; in three hours it was ready to bear artillery and cavalry, and as half of the latter had not yet crossed, the bridge enabled the whole to reach the other bank by 1 p. m. Another branch of the Chickahominy still farther on was with some difficulty forded, and the march was continued without interruption toward Richmond ... ![]() Route 155 crossing the Chickahominy River (two channels). The arrow points to the second bridge. |
19th Century Photographs Notes
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