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

by Rosemary Miner Pelkey (Author)

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.