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Photographer: Tom Bosse
Taken: April 1, 2017
Caption: Pottertown Bridge Burners Monument
Additional Description: "In the hour of their country's peril, they were loyal and true." On the night of November 8th 1861, these five Union men along with others, who mostly remain unknown, carried out the orders of President Abraham Lincoln transmitted to general George H. Thomas and given to their leader Capt. David Fry, to burn the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad bridge over nearby Lick Creek. All five men were summarily executed by Confederate authorities. The five executions left nearly twenty fatherless children.
Submitted: July 9, 2017, by Tom Bosse of Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Database Locator Identification Number: p388548
File Size: 1.728 Megabytes

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