Forge Bridge

Forge Bridge is a Virginia historical marker in Providence Forge, New Kent County, dedicated 1998.

New Kent County · dedicated 1998 · Rte. 60, just east of Chickahominy River bridge, Providence Forge

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The site of Forge Bridge over the Chickahominy River is located about a mile south of here. On 14 June 1862, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart and his cavalry brigade crossed there on their famous ride around Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac. Because the bridge had been burned in May, Stuart's men first built a makeshift bridge of barn timbers to replace it. On 13-14 June 1864, the VI and IX Corps of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac crossed the river there en route to Petersburg after the Battle of Cold Harbor.

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