Washington Roebling's Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge (Diane Monroe Smith - CH) 2020 S/L #25208

S/L #25208

Mary Todd Lincoln's seamstress

Absent a Secretary of Defense

the boredom

5" and is similar to the piece that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in 1865

Washington Roebling's Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge (Diane Monroe Smith - CH) 2020 S/L #25208by Diane Monroe Smith Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental task began during the Civil War. In addition to his brave, dramatic actions at Gettysburg, his Civil War service was remarkable: artilleryman, bridge builder, scout, balloonist, mapmaker, engineer, and staff officer. His story reveals much about Gettysburg but also about Civil War intelligence