View source for File:Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge.jpg

== Summary ==
The inscription on this Edwin Forbes drawing reads, “General Burnside’s Corps marching over the pontoon bridge into Virginia, at the town of Berlin on Thursday, October 27th, 1862.”

This was around the time of Alexander Gardner's famous photos of Union encampments at the river bottom in Berlin. Could that have been the toll house on the Virginia side of the river?

Burnside was one of four men to command the Army of the Potomac in Virginia. He replaced General George McClellan on November 7, 1862.

(Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division via David McIntosh) 

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