pontoon-bridge love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A platform or roadway supported upon pontoons.

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Examples

  • While at the White House I received orders to break up that depot wholly, and also instructions to move the trains which the Army of the Potomac had left there across the peninsula to the pontoon-bridge at Deep Bottom on the James River.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Meanwhile Gregg marched to Littlepage's crossing of the Pamunkey, with instructions to make feints in the same manner as Torbert until after dark, when he was to retire discreetly, leaving a small force to keep up the demonstration, and then march rapidly to Hanovertown crossing, taking with him the pontoon-bridge.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • We steamed up to where my cavalry was crossing on the pontoon-bridge below the mouth of the Dutch Gap canal, and for a little while watched the column as it was passing over the river, the bright sunshine presaging good weather, but only to delude, as was proved by the torrents of rain brought by the succeeding days of March.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • In fact, he held all the ground between Long Bridge on the Chickahominy and the pontoon-bridge except the Tete de pont at the crossing.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Gregg's fight fully satisfied me that we could not get the trains up to the pontoon-bridge, for of course Hampton would now throw all his cavalry in my front, on the river road, where it could be backed up by Lee's infantry.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • When General Hampton discovered this, he moved to Drury's Bluff, and there, on the morning of the 27th, crossed the James by the Confederate pontoon-bridge.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • My instructions required me to cross the trains over the James River on this pontoon-bridge if practicable, and to reach it I should be obliged to march through Charles City Court House, and then by Harrison's Landing and Malvern Hill, the latter point being held by the enemy.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • During the 15th and 16th Wilson drew his troops in toward the James River, and next day crossed it on the pontoon-bridge and camped on the Blackwater, near Mt. Sinai Church.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • Therefore I determined to pass the Pamunkey River at the White House, and sent to Fort Monroe for a pontoon-bridge on which to make the crossing.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • One medical wagon and eight ambulances were also furnished, and one wagon was authorized for each division and brigade headquarters; enough canvas-covered boats for a small pontoon-bridge were also provided.

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

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