UPDATED
04/20/2007
The following is a collection of assorted
information and short articles relating to topographical engineers:
INSIGNIA OF THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS
- History of the Essayons Button, the
Turreted Castle and the Seal of the Corps. Also check out
U.S.
Army Engineer History and Traditions at the Fort Leonard Wood
Army Engineer Museum.
WAGON ROADS WEST
- The exploration of west Texas by the U.S. Corps of
Topographical Engineers in the 1849.
THE CAMEL
AND THE
CORPS - Lieutenant William H. Echols' Reconnaissance of West
Texas in 1849.
THE BLACK HILLS
EXPEDITION - Engineer Captain William Ludlow joins George
Armstrong Custer for a scientific expedition into the Black Hills in
the summer of 1874.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM
LUDLOW & THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK EXPEDITION OF 1875 -
Providing the blueprints for the preservation of one of America's
most scenic wonderlands.
ARMY
ENGINEERS IN THE WEST - From the Mexican War through the Indian
Wars, Army Engineers surveyed and mapped the territory of an
expanding nation.
THE LIVERMORE
EXPEDITION - Exploration of west Texas in the early 1880s.
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