. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . 25th, struck the Orange and AlexandriaRailroad, at Manassas Junction, capturing an immense quantityof army supplies. This movement caused Pope to abandon theline of the Rappahannock and his communication with Fredericks-burg, and concentrate his whole army in the neighborhood of War-renton and Gainesville, to reopen the railroad to Washington, and,if possible, crush Jackson. But Longstreet succeeded in makinga junction with Jackson via Thoroughfare Gap, on the mor
. History of the Ninth and Tenth Regiments Rhode Island Volunteers, and the Tenth Rhode Island Battery, in the Union Army in 1862 . 25th, struck the Orange and AlexandriaRailroad, at Manassas Junction, capturing an immense quantityof army supplies. This movement caused Pope to abandon theline of the Rappahannock and his communication with Fredericks-burg, and concentrate his whole army in the neighborhood of War-renton and Gainesville, to reopen the railroad to Washington, and,if possible, crush Jackson. But Longstreet succeeded in makinga junction with Jackson via Thoroughfare Gap, on the morningof August 29th, on the same field on which the first battle ofBull Run was fought in 1861. Then followed the second battleof Bull Run. The Union army fought bravely, and General Popeshowed his usual energy, but on the following day, the 30th, theConfederates succeeded in driving his army across Bull Run toCentreville, from which they retired in good order to the defencesof Washington, but General Pope had succeeded in gaining timefor the Army of the Potomac, to assemble for the defence ofWashington. 304 THE TENTH REGIMENT. One of the officers of GeneralPopes staff, in the campaign ofJuly and August, 1862 (who hassince won a national reputation asa civil engineer), was WashingtonAugustus Roebling. Under hisdirection a suspension bridge wasconstructed across the Rappahan-nock River, early in 1862, and lateranother across the Shenandoah, atHarpers Ferry. He served tillJanuary, 1865. His greatest workis the building of the Brooklyn sus-pension bridge, which was begunin 1S69, and completed in structure, built by him, is the largest suspension bridge inthe world, and cost about $13,000,000. The picture shows itincomplete, as it was in 1877, when the writer crossed it by thepicket foot-path attached to the cables suspended from the tops ofthe towers. Its total length, including approaches, is about 6,000feet, or one and one-eighth miles. Charles H. Wildman, of the Tenth
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