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Updated: June 2, 2025
'Sumner's bridge, by which reinforcements crossed at the battle of Fair Oaks, was laid in this manner. Of course such bridges are liable to be carried away and to be easily destroyed. Some of the bridges over the Chickahominy were laid much more thoroughly. 'Cribs' of logs were piled in cob-house fashion, pinned together, and sunk vertically in the stream.
"It is so easy to sit still and pass judgment upon those who exert themselves. When I hear a person criticising a painting, a story, a building, a song who could not draw a straight line, write a sentence correctly, build a cob-house on just proportions, nor keep the key through 'Yankee Doodle, I long to insist upon his making a practical trial in such things before daring to make a criticism.
But he did ask his old friend if he thought he really could defend the cob-house fort, which Lee had laughed to scorn. Moultrie was a man of few words, and replied simply, "I think I can." "General Lee wishes you to give up the fort," added Rutledge, "but you are not to do it without an order from me, and I will sooner cut off my right hand than write one."
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