The BRIDGE
Maybe it has something to do with Andrew Jackson and the White House Bridge
WHITE HOUSE BRIDGE, CRITICAL CROSSING, 1862 VALLEY CAMPAIGN
"On May 21, 1862, Confederate Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Valley Army plodded north along this road to threaten Front Royal and outflank Union Gen. Nathaniel Bank's position at Strasburg. With the addition of Gen. Richard S. Ewell's division, Jackson's command numbered nearly 17,000 men and 50 guns. Philip Kauffman, a young man at the time, remembered the Confederates as they crossed the Shenandoah River on the White House Bridge and: "…Stonewall himself as he ran the gauntlet, with bared head, through the marching columns of his 'foot cavalry.' His faded gray uniform with stars on the collar, his black beard and uncovered head, as he loped by the White House on Old Sorrel, are as fresh in my mind as on that day."" Jackson's Valley Army reached Front Royal May 23. There, aided by spy Belle Boyd, it overwhelmed Banks' 1,000-man detachment and continued toward Winchester to attack the main Union army, now in full retreat from Strasburg. Jackson's success was complete.
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