but in october of 1862, what people may not realize is jeff stewart comes to pennsylvania. he will get within six miles of gettysburg within six miles of gettysburg in october 62 before he finally turns around heads back to virginia. that raid in october of 62 scares the bejesus out of everybody in pennsylvania and. so you look they start thinking about how are we going to either protect these bridges or destroy them because last thing we need is jeb stuart, somebody else, bobby lee, whoever marching into harrisburg or heaven forbid, marching on philadelphia. we've got to have some way of stopping this. so in october 1862, as jeb stuart's running amok in franklin county counties over lancasr is committed to safety, that is their self-appointed, if you will businessn and civic leaders are just have to come up with plan to defend the river crossings they instruct columbia's chief burgess to defend their bridges or quote unquote render impassable that either chopping holes in the deck or finding some other way to, destroying a span, or at least bridges. this bridge, by the way