{"id":193,"date":"2010-03-22T05:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-03-22T05:13:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T05:13:12","slug":"burning-the-wrightsville-bridge-story-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/2010\/03\/22\/burning-the-wrightsville-bridge-story-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning the Wrightsville Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/wrightsville-bridge.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-194\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"wrightsville-bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/wrightsville-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/wrightsville-bridge.jpg 900w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/wrightsville-bridge-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/wrightsville-bridge-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After invading Pennsylvania and capturing York, Confederates planned to take Harrisburg and possibly Philadelphia. To get there they had to cross the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville. Pennsylvania militiamen from Columbia, on the Lancaster County side of the river, vowed to block the Confederate advance. Union troops retreating from York joined them, as did a company of African American militiamen. They mustered fewer than 1,500 men. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Address:<\/strong><br \/>\nNorth Front Street, Commons Park, In Grass<br \/>\nYORK, PA, 17368<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacivilwartrails.com\/attractions\/details\/index.aspx?id=10074510\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Civil War Trails<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After invading Pennsylvania and capturing York, Confederates planned to take Harrisburg and possibly Philadelphia. To get there they had to cross the Susquehanna River at Wrightsville. Pennsylvania militiamen from Columbia, on the Lancaster County side of the river, vowed to block the Confederate advance. Union troops retreating from York joined them, as did a company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-colored-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}