Tag: Berlin bridge (Potomac River)

Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book Of The War. Vol. 1, No. 25. Pontoon bridge across Potomac at Berlin. November, 1862. Berlin is a quiet little village on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, twelve miles from Point of Rocks. A fine bridge connected it with the Virginia shore until June, 1861, when the Confederates sacrificed it to the spirit of destruction that ruined Harper’s Ferry and laid waste the pleasant places of the border.