. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . A HOUGH-HE\\N (See facing page). THE AKMYS llAXDV MEN The Federal army, under Pope, in its advance against Lee needed mncli more than well drilled regiments of soldiers. Indeed, duringthe forward march the engineer corps was the busiest division of the army. Artillery battalions and provision trains had to havebridges to cross the numerous streams flowing into the Potomac and the Chesapeake. Three pictures on this iiayc and llic precedingshow us the men at their work in that summer of long ago. The polka-dot shirt of the f
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . A HOUGH-HE\\N (See facing page). THE AKMYS llAXDV MEN The Federal army, under Pope, in its advance against Lee needed mncli more than well drilled regiments of soldiers. Indeed, duringthe forward march the engineer corps was the busiest division of the army. Artillery battalions and provision trains had to havebridges to cross the numerous streams flowing into the Potomac and the Chesapeake. Three pictures on this iiayc and llic precedingshow us the men at their work in that summer of long ago. The polka-dot shirt of the foreman (page 14), the roughly hewntimbers cut from the banks, the improvised derrick, the piers built in the middle of the stream around which the water is nowrippling, the quiet trees on the banks—all these features stand out as clearly as they did in August of 1862, as the engineer corps wasworking on the north fork of the Rajipahannock, near Sulphur Sjirings. Tlie pictures are of the same bridge from different points of view.
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