Nrhp Engineers: Alfred W. Craven, Canvass White, Daniel B. Luten, Edward Lloyd Thomas (Surveyor), George H. Pegram, James Barney Marsh

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Alfred W. Craven, Canvass White, Daniel B. Luten, Edward Lloyd Thomas (surveyor), George H. Pegram, James Barney Marsh, John Alexander Low Waddell, John Watkins (architect), Josiah Brown, Josiah White, Montgomery C. Meigs, Robert Ridgway (engineer), Stone & Webster, Vernon R. Covell, W.G. Wilkins Company, Waddell & Harrington, Walter Mickle Smith, William Barclay Parsons, Wilson Bros. & Company, Wilson Brothers & Company, Wyatt C. Hedrick. Excerpt: Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (; May 3, 1816 January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, construction engineer for a number of facilities in Washington, D.C., and Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War. Meigs was born in Augusta, Georgia, a son of Dr. Charles Delucena Meigs and a grandson of the academic Josiah Meigs. While a boy, he moved with his family to Pennsylvania, and he initially attended the University of Pennsylvania, but was appointed to the United States Military Academy and graduated in 1836. He received a commission as a second lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Artillery, but most of his army service was with the Corps of Engineers, in which he worked on important engineering projects. In his early assignments, Meigs helped build Fort Mifflin and Fort Delaware, both on the Delaware River, and Fort Wayne on the Detroit River. He also served under the command of then-Lt. Robert E. Lee to make navigational improvements on the Mississippi River. Beginning in 1844, Meigs also was involved with the construction of Fort Montgomery on Lake Champlain in upstate New York. His favorite prewar engineering project was the Washington Aqueduct, which he supervised from 1852 to 1860. It involved the construction of the monumental Union Arch Bridge across Cabin John Creek, designed by Alfred Rives, which for 50 years remained the longest single-span masonry arch in the world. From 1853 to 1859, he also supervised the building of the wings and dome of the United States Capitol and, from 1855 to 1859, the extension of the General Post Office Building. Montgomery C. MeigsIn the fall of 1860, as a result of a disagreement over procurement contracts, Meigs "incurred the ill will" of the Secretary of War, John B. Floyd, and was "banished to Tortugas in the Gulf of Mexico to construct fortifications at that place and at Key West." Upon the resignation of Floyd a few months later, Meigs was recalled to his work o