This fourth bridge rebuilt over the Potomac Creek was glibly referred to as the "Beanpole and Cornstalk" Bridge by Abraham Lincoln
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<ul><li><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/photographichist05mill#page/272/mode/1up">The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Five, Forts and Artillery</a></i>. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 272.</li></ul>