The practice had been around since Caesar.

Pontoon bridge battle of fredericksburg. Lee ordered it to occupy a range of hills behind the town reaching from the Rappahannock on its left to marshy Massaponax Creek on its right. This was taken from hallowed ground. Lee placed his men in a sunken road that was protected by a stone wall.

The Pontoon Bridge crossing. Across the Rappahannock on Pontoon Bridges II Posted on January 28 2018 Alfred Waud sketched the 50th New York Engineers supported by artillery assembling a pontoon bridge across the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg on December 11. Re-enactors built two replica pontoon boats to reenact the amphibious landing made by Union troops in 1862 during a reenactment of the Battle of Fredericksburg VA.

The River Crossing Longstreets corps appeared at Fredericksburg on November 19. With the late arrival and deployment of the pontoon bridges Ambrose Burnsides Fredericksburg Campaign was doomed to failure. RG 77 Fortification File Drawer 150 Sheet 29.

An engineering construction used throughout history to get armies across rivers. Union troops moved across the bridges and occupied Fredericksburg on December 12 looting the smoldering city and readying for the main attack which was scheduled for December 13. Waud Building Pontoon Bridges at Fredericksburg Dec.

November 22 1862 Federal Major General Ambrose E. The game can be played by four to six players on each side and takes about six hours to play. A pontoon bridge consists of a series of open flat-bottomed boats placed in the river from one side to the other bows facing the rivers current and securely anchored in place and lashed together.

Drawing by Alfred R. Posted on March 28 2017 by Chris Kolakowski Yesterday Sarah Kay Bierle looked at the ancient uses of pontoon bridges and its perspectives on the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. Lees army outside Fredericksburg.