Pontoon bridge across James River Va.

Grant pontoon bridge james river. The engineers began assembling the ponton bridge around 1600 on 14 June after a further delay to allow the river passage of the XVIII Corps past Weyanoke Point. Army engineers to that point and would remain so until World War II. A Pontoon Bridge that spans 1992 feet across the narrowest point of the James River to Flowerdew Hundred Owners use 1804 house as a hunting lodge and bachelors quarters for sons until 1948 Flowerdew Hundred becomes a modern 1323 acre working farm 1864 1915 1967 1864 Pontoon Bridge Main house built on site of 1804 dwelling Original 1850 school house is adapted into the Flowerdew.

H Trevilian Station Cavalry fought here June 11-12 1864 as Grant began infantry move. Engineers then dismantled the bridge. At 400 PM on June 15th Union engineers began work on a 2200 feet pontoon bridge on the James between Windmill Point to Fort Powhatan and completed it seven hours later.

Comstock and Porter were then to select the best crossing point on the river for the ponton bridge. June 1864 1 photograph. As his last act as commander of the Landing Abbot asked Grant to keep the pontoon bridge at the landing for the townsfolk to use.

More Details Cite This Item Image ID 1150142. Pontoon bridge opened for steamers. On the morning of June 14 Grants engineers began to span the majestic James with a pontoon bridge measuring 2100 feet in length and 13 feet in width making it.

At Wilcoxs landing where the bridge was made the James River was 21oo feet wide almost half a mile and nearly 100 feet deep in the middle. Grant refused and an 1866 map of. Multiple Trails sites H Long Bridge Union troops crossed Chickahominy River here after disengaging at Cold Harbor.

Union engineers labored all night to construct a 2100-foot pontoon bridge over the river at nearby Weyanoke. Photograph shows soldiers and civilians at pontoon bridge on the James River Virginia with sailing ships in the background during Grants Wilderness Campaign May-June 1864. Three miles downstream at Weyanoke Point Union engineers built a 700-yard-long pontoon bridge in seven hours on 14 June.