Adirondack Bridgebuilder from Charleston: The Life and Times of Robert Cogdell Gilchrist

Here is the story of a Confederate Major who built the first suspension bridge across the Hudson River in 1871. How and why a Southerner came to the Adirondacks only a year after Appomattox to build a bridge is recounted.

• | Author: Rosemary Miner Pelkey
• | Publisher: North Country Books
• | Publication Date: May 01, 1993
• | Number of Pages: 176 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0925168238
• | ISBN-13: 9780925168238