Military Bridges: With Suggestions of New Expedients and Constructions for crossing Streams and Chasms; including, also, Designs for Trestle and Truss Bridges for Military Railroads.

Hermann Haupt

Military Bridges: With Suggestions of New Expedients and Constructions for crossing Streams and Chasms; including, also, Designs for Trestle and Truss Bridges for Military Railroads.

New York:

D. Van Nostrand

1864

Publisher D. Van Nostrand presented this copy of Military Bridges to Abraham Lincoln, who then presented the volume to Civil War General J.B.S. Todd, Chief of Engineers with the Army of the Potomac. Todd held this gift in such high esteem that he carried this book in his saddle bag during the war (as you can see by the condition of the binding).

Abraham Lincoln. Term: 1861-1865, Republican Party

From the Collection of Susan Jaffe Tane