# William McIlvaine - The Chickahominy - Sumners Upper Bridge

- By: William McIlvaine (1813-1867)
- Date: 1862
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g06676. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_McIlvaine_-_The_Chickahominy_-_Sumners_Upper_Bridge.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
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Watercolour showing a bridge created by Edwin Vose Sumner's troops to allow crossing of the Chickahominy River, as part of the efforts of the two halves of the Union troops to recombine after the river flooded during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.

Very conservative restoration, mainly of the outer paper. Crop loose as artwork is not very square; a loose crop makes it look better.