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<ul><li><b>Scope and content:</b>  Nashville &amp; Chattanooga Railroad bridge over Running Water Creek (Whiteside), Tennessee. Rebuilt by the 59th Illinois Regiment, Union Army in 1863 after retreating Confederate Army destroyed the original bridge, at a cost of $95,000.00. At five hundred feet in length and ninety-five feet high, with the wooden trestle extending the length to 780 feet. it became one of the Civil War's greatest feats of military engineering. The bridge was washed away on March 5, 1867 in the great flood.</li></ul></div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Mathew_Brady" class="extiw" title="w:en:Mathew Brady"><span title="American photographer (circa 1823–1896)">Mathew Benjamin Brady</span></a>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._National_Archives_and_Records_Administration" class="extiw" title="en:U.S. National Archives and Records Administration">U.S. National Archives and Records Administration</a>