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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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letter to Secretary of War Stanton that it was one of themost difficult operations of the kind ever performed. Immediately after returning to Washington from Har-pers Ferry, the engineer troops, with their bridge-equipage,were sent to Fort Monroe, in Virginia, and were moved thence,on April 4th, to a camp near Vorktown, in preparation forthe Peninsula campaign. In front of Vorktown the bat-talion was engaged in constructing trenches and lines of com-munication, and in superintending and instructing details ofsoldiers who were unfamiliar with methods of modern warfare.At this period of the war (1862), the troops of the infantryand the cavalry had received no training in the constructionof field-fortifications. Consequently, the duty fell heavily onthis battalion of men who had received such instruction. Orders to construct a bridge across the ChickahominyRiver were received late on the afternoon of the 31st of May.The river was rising rapidly, and the night was extremely dark. ( 228 1
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COPYRIGHT, 1911, PATRIOT PUB. CO. THE MEN WHO MADE MAPS-TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS BEFORE YORKTOWN This photograph of May, 1862, affords the lust chance to see the Topographical Engineers al work as a dis-tinct organization. Kt^etimeiins^^Uken^eysme^tedBS^epar^br^^^dn^^ the compilation of maps and other topographical data for the u I the army; bul by act d March 3, L86S the Corps of Topographical Engineers was abolished and merged into the Corps of Engmeers 1 one andagain on the field of battle the exact knowledge of locality decided the result. Greal advantage lay with <!„■officerswhohadthexnostreUableanddetailedmaps. None such existed of the theater owar m Virginia, andon this corps fell the duty of providing all topographical data accessary for the M ol flie Potomac. 1 heofficers were all highly trained in engineering work, especially in the survey, necessary for flieir maps, and in their preparation. In this photograph is a surveyors level, and on the table a map in p. *s rf p

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