Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA, March 2nd, 2004
The burning of the Columbia-Wrightsville bridge preserved Lancaster County from an alien invasion just before the battle of Gettysburg. It also stranded a group of Pennsylvania Dutch soldiers from Adams County on the York County side of the Susquehanna River. Captain Robert Bell's home guard, responding to the call for troops to guard the river crossing in the summer of 1863, rode into Wrightsville to find the Confederate army in control and no passage remaining to join friendly forces on the Lancaster shore. So Bell's soldiers scattered, escaping into the river hills. One rider did not mak...
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