fosse-bridge

Updated: May 22, 2025

Broken in spirit, grown old already, he faltered toward the town, and, stopping on the fosse-bridge, looked sorrowfully across the shipping in the dock. Something caught his regard amid the cloud of tri-color; he looked again, shading his eye with a tremulous palm. There could not be a doubt it was the Confederate standard the Stars and Bars.

George Alfred Townsend - Bohemian Days: Three American Tales