Washington Roebling's Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge (Diane Monroe Smith - CH) 2020 RICHARD BROOKHISER

RICHARD BROOKHISER

My mind was spinning at this point

Absent a Secretary of Defense

He participated in the mid-December sprint to Luxembourg and the relief provided at Bastogne during the Bulge

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Washington Roebling's Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge (Diane Monroe Smith - CH) 2020 RICHARD BROOKHISERby 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