The Nation Builders: A Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1838 - 1863

Abstract

This book marks an important anniversary in the history of our development as a nation. In 1838 Congress established the Corps of Topographical Engineers, an organization whose main purpose was the peacetime fostering of economic growth and national cohesion. This small dedicated group of officers contributed to the development of many aspects of the national transportation network-railroads, highways, and inland waterways. They provided maps for overland travelers and charts for navigators on our Great Lakes. By the time that the organization was abolished during the Civil War, it had played a major part in a period of dramatic development aptly characterized by one historian as a transportation revolution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA471967

Entities

People

  • Dale E. Floyd
  • Frank N. Schubert
  • Martin K. Gordon
  • Martin Reuss

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Civil Engineering
  • Civil War
  • Construction
  • Employment
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Great Lakes
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Navigation
  • Navy
  • Personnel Management
  • Potomac River
  • Terrain
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • History

Readers

  • Maritime Security/Maritime Homeland Security
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.