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 and engineering and the politics and infighting within the Army of the Potomacs high command. Roeblings serviceleadership, engineering, decision-making, and managing personalities and politicsprepared him well for overseeing the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Weight: 762g
Dimensions: 161 x 237mm
Publication Date: 01 Sep 2019
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811737883
About Diane Monroe SmithDiane Smith
Diane Monroe Smith is the author of Fanny & Joshua: The Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Thomas Publications 1999; University Press of New England 2013) Command Conflicts in Grants Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity and the Army of the Potomac (McFarland 2012) and Chamberlain at Petersburg: The Charge at Fort Hell (Thomas Publications 2004). She is an expert on the Army of the Potomacs 5th Corps (in which Chamberlain served and which Gouverneur Warren commanded after Gettysburg). Smith has been a volunteer guide at the Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Museum and has spoken widely on Chamberlain and Maine in the Civil War including at National Park Service events Civil War roundtables and historical societies. She lives near Bangor Maine.