Washington Roebling's Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge (Diane Monroe Smith - CH) Section-Ghost Stories and the role off-duty activities

and the role off-duty activities played in helping the soldiers meet the demands of military service and the challenges of freedom

At the outbreak of the Battle of Gettysburg

tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of War

a time line

Raised in an antebellum culture that demanded restraint and shaped white men to embrace self-reliant masculinity

Washington Roebling's Civil War: From the Bloody Battlefield at Gettysburg to the Brooklyn Bridge (Diane Monroe Smith - CH) Section-Ghost Stories and the role off-duty activitiesby Diane Monroe Smith Washington Roebling is well known as the man who supervised construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. His path to overseeing that monumental task began during the Civil War. In addition to his brave, dramatic actions at Gettysburg, his Civil War service was remarkable: artilleryman, bridge builder, scout, balloonist, mapmaker, engineer, and staff officer. His story reveals much about Gettysburg but also about Civil War intelligence