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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Battle of Spottsylvania-Hancock's position-assault of Warren's and Wright's corps-upton promoted on the field-good news from Butler and Sheridan (search)
ylvania without crossing either of these streams. Lee's army coming up by the Catharpin Road, had to cross the Po at Wooden Bridge. Warren and Hancock came by the Brock Road. Sedgwick crossed the Ny at Catharpin Furnace. Burnside coming by Aldriat Early had left his front. He had been forced over to the Catharpin Road, crossing the Po at Corbin's and again at Wooden Bridge. These are the bridges Sheridan had given orders to his cavalry to occupy on the 8th, while one division should occu. But for the lateness of the hour and the darkness of the night he would have attempted to cross the river again at Wooden Bridge, thus bringing himself on the same side with both friend and foe. The Po at the points where Hancock's corps crosst. Just below his lower crossing — the troops crossed at three points — it turns due south, and after passing under Wooden Bridge soon resumes a more easterly direction. During the night this corps built three bridges over the Po; but these were
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bridges. (search)
et above high-water. The bridge will be 2 miles in length, with two channel spans of 846 feet each, and one across Blackwell's Island of 613 feet. Girder and miscellaneous bridges. Arthur Kill Bridge, between Staten Island and New Jersey, consists of two shore-spans of 150 feet each, covered by fixed trusses, and a draw 500 feet in length; can be opened and closed in two minutes; bridge authorized by act of Congress June 16, 1886; completed at a cost of $450,000, June 13, 1888. Wooden bridge, over the Connecticut at Hanover, with a single arch of 236 feet; erected in 1796. Potomac Run Bridge, a famous trestle-work 400 feet long and 80 feet high; built in nine days by soldiers of the Army of the Potomac under the supervision of Gen. Herman Haupt. It contained more than 2,000,000 feet of lumber, chiefly round sticks, fresh cut from the neighboring woods; erected May, 1862. Portage Bridge, over the Genesee River, on the line of the Erie Railroad at Portage, N. Y. An iron
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
w-bridge. Chinka-bridge.Steel-bridge. Counterpoise-bridge.Stiffening-girder. Drawbridge.Stone-bridge. Electric bridge.Suspension-bridge. Ferry-bridge.Swing-bridge. Fire-bridge.Swivel-bridge. Flame-bridge.Tension-bridge. Floating-bridge.Trainway for ferry-boats. Flying-bridge.Trestle-bridge. Foot-bridge.Truss-bridge. Furnace-bridge.Tubular-bridge. Girder-bridge.Tubular-arch bridge. Half-lattice girder.Turn-bridge. Hoist-bridge.Viaduct. Hose-bridge.Weigh-bridge. Iron bridge.Wooden bridge. Iron-arch bridge. 2. (Steam.) a. A lower vertical partition at the back of the grate-space of a furnace. The flame in passing the bridge is deflected upward against the bottom of the boiler. Bridges are of metal or fire-brick. They may be hollow and form a part of the water-space of the boiler. Such are called water-bridges. When a hollow water-bridge depends from the bottom of the boiler of which it forms a part, it is called a hanging bridge. A bridge in the mid-
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
ve been principally employed in Europe; while the lattice, or truss, or some combination of it with the arch, has been very extensively made use of in the United States. One of the best examples of the former, the bridge over the Limmat, in Switzerland, was built shortly after the middle of the eighteenth century, by the Grubenmann brothers; the span of its wooden arch was 390 feet, with a rise or versed sine of 43 feet; this is said to have been the widest span ever formed of timber. Wooden bridge. A bridge over the Seine, at Paris, built in 1802, has a span of 104 feet, with a versed sine of but 6 feet 6 inches. The lattice bridge has generally, in practice, where great strength and rigidity are required, been combined with the arch, though examples of smaller structures more especially, in which the whole weight of the bridge and its load are borne by the truss, are extremely common. The widest single-span wooden bridge ever built in the United States is believed to have be