In the evening of June 23, Hooker ordered Howard to cross at the Edwards bFerry Bridges/b and move to Harper's bFerry/b. In a half day march, the Corps reached Edwards bFerry/b at around 1 p.m. on the 24th. This line of march passed near Belmont, ... Perhaps with a bit of irony, the bestate/b was first patented by Thomas Lee, of Stratford, an ancestor of General Robert E. Lee. But the XI Corps was not to cross the Potomac, yet. General Hooker countermanded his original order, ...
The operation included stocking the property with sheep, fencing, milling timber, constructing a bridge over the Hurunui, and building a slipway at Robinson's Bay for wool lighters to be launched to ferry wool bales out to coastal ...
