The covered bridge over the Etowah here was burned by Jackson's Confederate cavalry on May 21, 1864, the day after Johnston's Confederate passage of the river at State Railroad Bridge. On May 23, the two pontoon bridges intended for the passage of Schofield's 23rd Army Corps, United States, were taken over by the 20th Army Corps, United States, which had been mistakenly diverted from Gillem's bridge, and the 23rd Army Corps did not cross until May 24. This crossing and others farther downriver lay on Federal routes from Kingston and Cassville toward Dallas in Paulding County, and Sherman called the Etowah "The Rubicon of Georgia."