tmh10
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- Mar 2, 2012
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- Pipestem,WV
I like the picture. I haven't seen it before.
I am lost. jess said it was middle bridge and somehow there is a discussion about it not being the Burnside bridge. Where is mistake? It looks like it is middle bridge as title of thread says.
The only way a mistake is a mistake is if you don't learn something from it. Don't sweat it, Jess!
I like the picture. I haven't seen it before.
Hell, it's still a great picture. Thanks for sharing!
On post #30 the first photo is the Burnside bridge and the second is the extinct middle bridge. The last is Janet Leigh and a duck
Just for the record, here is a wartime photograph of Burnside's Bridge.View attachment 6483
The Eastern bank of the creek dominated the western bank completely as far as elevation and thus undefenseablejess, it is the twin to the Burnside Bridge....no problemo. Two things to note are that there is no steep hill on the side where Burnside's men had to cross--and not really anything on the other, either....two factors that made crossing difficult (so put it mildly). We have a number of pics posted around here of the Burnside Bridge in modern times, and you can see the terrain differs pretty substantially.