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June 12th, 1864 Lt. Peter Michie of the Corps of Engineers, ordered to find the best place below City Point for a pontoon bridge, surveyed the area around Ft. Powhatan. At the point he selected, the river was 1,992 feet wide from Weyanoke to Flowerdew Hundred. . . . over 3,000 feet of timber was gathered at the mouth of Flowerdew Creek. 
The next day, Michie was given 150 axmen to cut logs, and by that night over 3,000 feet of timber was gathered at the mouth of Flowerdew Creek. Within 12 hours the Engineers turned this timber into corduroy roads leading to the bridge anchorage, which required a 150 foot pier on the Weyanoke end. The army was gathering, the roads were ready, but the pontoon boats hadn't arrived from Fort Monroe. |
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Grant's Crossing
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