Talk:Potomac Creek Bridge

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A fact from Potomac Creek Bridge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 March 2009, and was viewed approximately 2,506 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after being destroyed by the Confederate Army, the Potomac Creek Bridge was rebuilt in just nine days?

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Copyright problems - too similar wording[edit]

This is a duplication of the source:

Article - "During the first year of the Civil War, the railroad was the principal lifeline for Confederate Army encampments and batteries located along the nearby shore of the Potomac River. In the spring of 1862, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ordered Confederate forces to abandon the area. Advancing Union Army troops encountered only the ruins of the bridge at Potomac Creek"
Source - "During the first year of the Civil War, the railroad was the principal lifeline for Confederate encampments and batteries located along the nearby shore of the Potomac River. In the spring of 1862, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston ordered Confederate forces to abandon the area. Advancing Union troops encountered only the ruins of the bridge here at Potomac Creek."

This should be corrected immediately. Ottava Rima (talk) 20:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Problems have been addressed. Next time, just be sure to identify that it is a quote and a source. Ottava Rima (talk) 03:23, 5 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Dates[edit]

I have a question for the author. Maybe I just don't understand this correctly. But if Haupt's version of the bridge stood until June 1863, and Haupt's version was the "cornstalks and beanpoles" version, then why do the two photos of the bridge -- one captioned "cornstalks and beanpoles" and the other "April 18, 1863" -- look entirely different? My guess is that the date on the "April 18, 1863" photo is wrong. It either is actually from before the bridge was demolished by the Confederates -- it's of the original bridge -- or it's a later version of the rebuilt bridge. Alternatively, the "June 1863" date for how long the "cornstalks and beanpoles" version was in place could be wrong. But it seems like there's a conflict somewhere. 71.86.117.253 (talk) 09:28, 7 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Haupt bridge was a temporary structure which is why the stone piers were not taken down. The April 1883 bridge was the replacment and didn't open until June. The historic photos came from the Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division and I simply used the dates they had listed there. In some cases they only had a date range like (c. 1882-1883). BaomoVW (talk) 16:22, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]