. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt : giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . ast, interfere with army transportation. The new bridge was a very beautiful and substantial structure. Itwas built on a new plan designed as a general one for military truss-bridges. Its peculiarities were that it was adapted
. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt : giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and with Generals McDowell, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . ast, interfere with army transportation. The new bridge was a very beautiful and substantial structure. Itwas built on a new plan designed as a general one for military truss-bridges. Its peculiarities were that it was adapted to any span orlocation; could be used either for deck or through bridges; could beconstructed to any extent in advance, and kept on hand ready for anemergency. It required no skilled labor to frame and raise it, the augerand the saw being almost the only tools required to put it together. Allthe parts were alike and interchangeable; any timber could be turnedor reversed end for end, and it would fit equally well. It was notnecessary to put any part of the bridge together until it was erected onthe spot which it was intended to occupy, and it could be raised in one-half or one-third the time of any other bridge. The trusses of thePotomac Creek bridge, four hundred feet long in three spans, wereraised in about a day and a half, and this was the first bridge of the. GENERAL HERMAN HAUPT. 275 kind ever constructed. I have but little doubt tbat with a proper drilland more perfect organization 600 lineal feet of this military truss-bridge might be set up in a single day. After the reconstruction of the Potomac Creek bridge nothing ofspecial interest occurred until after the battle of , order and absence of all complaints distinguished the opera-tions of the railroads in Virginia so far as they were under our continued until the movement of the enemy towards Maryland andPennsylvania compelled the abandonment of the Fredericksburg line,and Acquia
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