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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 19: events in Kentucky and Northern Mississippi. (search)
l. In the course of a few hours he had at his command an army of workers and fighters forty thousand strong. While many did not believe that danger was so nigh, If the enemy should not come, after all this fuss, said a doubting friend to the General, you will be ruined. --Very well, he responded; but they will come, and if they do not, it will be because this same fuss has caused them to think better of it. all confided in the General, and the citizens and soldiers of Cincinnati, and Dickson's brigade of colored men, and the Squirrel Hunters from the rural districts of Ohio, streamed across a pontoon bridge that had been erected in a day under Wallace's Pontoon Bridge at Cincinnati. this is a view of the passage of the troops over the pontoon Bridge at Cincinnati on the night of the 3d of September, 1862. the Bridge was laid along the line of the Suspension Bridge since erected. The unfinished piers of that Bridge are seen on each side of the Ohio, in the picture. direct