<p>Watercolour showing a bridge created by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Vose_Sumner" class="extiw" title="en:Edwin Vose Sumner">Edwin Vose Sumner</a>'s troops to allow crossing of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickahominy_River" class="extiw" title="en:Chickahominy River">Chickahominy River</a>, as part of the efforts of the two halves of the Union troops to recombine after the river flooded during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsula_Campaign" class="extiw" title="en:Peninsula Campaign">Peninsula Campaign</a> of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>.
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Very conservative restoration, mainly of the outer paper. Crop loose as artwork is not very square; a loose crop makes it look better.
William McIlvaine (1813-1867)
1862
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