This illustration from Harper's Weekly in 1868 shows a view of Columbus, Georgia, from Girard, Russell County. The covered bridge, the location of today's Dillingham Street Bridge, is a replacement of the bridge burned by Confederate troops during the 1865 Battle of Columbus, one of the last conflicts of the Civil War.
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