American side, pontoon bridge over Rio Grande River

Photograph shows a view of Levee Street in Brownsville, Texas from the pontoon bridge constructed by United States forces across the Rio Grande River from Matamoros, Mexico in November of 1866. The bridge is guarded by armed sentries of the 114th U.S. Colored Infantry.
Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022).

Photograph attributed to Louis De Planque in Thompson, Jerry, and Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War & Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2004.
Forms part of: The Robin G. Stanford Collection.
Digitized 2015 Funding from Center for Civil War Photography.