Concord Covered Bridge Nickajack Creek Art

by Reid Callaway

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Concord Covered Bridge Nickajack Creek Art

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Reid Callaway

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Photograph - Photography

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Concord Covered Bridge......by Reid Callaway
Nickajack Creek Art

Concord Bridge is 131.7 feet long and 16 feet wide. It was built in 1872. This bridge is open to traffic. It is over Nickajack Creek. Historically it has the highest traffic count of all the covered bridges in the state combined. Note: Fast and high traffic makes a visit to this bridge dangerous.

This bridge originally consisted of only two spans, each a queen-post truss with steel (or iron) tension rods. The center abutment, as can be seen in the photo of the steel beams above, seems to have been widened from a previous bridge using the same pier.

In the 1950's steel beams were added to support the bridge and additional concrete piers were added. There is also a fourth all-steel support which can be seen in the downstream view.

The Covered Bridge Historic District owes much of its significance to the Battle of Ruff's Mill on July 3rd, 4th, and 5th 1864.
General Joseph E. Johnston of the C.S.A led the Army of the Tennessee against Federal Generals, a coterie that included William T. Sherman, James B. McPherson and John A. Logan, among others.
At 8:30 a.m. on July 3rd, two Federal regiments marched along Concord Road toward Nickajack creek on a reconnaissance mission. An hour and a half later, they were engaged by Confederate troops in a skirmish that would portend future events. Federal troops received orders the next day to drive the Confederates from their positions held on the Nickajack's opposite bank. The heat was such that the commanders feared more of their men would fall to heatstroke rather than bullets. After a number of volleys back and forth, scores lay dead or dying. The Rebel army was forced from the area as far away as six miles, all the way to defensive positions along the Chattahoochee.

The resulting loss meant that the Federal army was free to continue its march towards Atlanta, a historic turning point in Sherman's southern campaign.

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