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Retreat Over the Railroad Bridge:
When Union troops set fire to the covered bridge, Lieutenant George Davis and the skirmishers who found themselves stranded on the north side of the river realized there was only one escape route: across the railroad bridge.
"... I saw our Union army retreating, and gave orders to my men to fall in and retreat over the iron bridge forty feet in the air, by stepping on ties and pursued so close by the enemy that five of my own Company were seized forcibly by the enemy grabbing the coat collar, so close to me that if one more man had been taken, it would have been me. Some of my men fell through the ties into the river forty feet below."
-- Captain George E. Davis, 10th Vermont |