Adirondack Bridgebuilder From Charleston: The Life and Times of Robert Cogdell Gilchrist

by Rosemary Miner Pelkey

Overview

Here is the story of a Confederate Major who built the first suspension bridge across the Hudson River in 1871. How and why a Southerner came to the Adirondacks only a year after Appomattox to build a bridge is recounted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780925168238
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/01/1993
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	731,712
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.52(d)