Missouri S&T GEO ENG 342 - A Brief History of the 50th New York Volunteer Engineer Regiment

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A Brief History of the 50thNew York Volunteer Engineer RegimentDrainage Basins in VirginiaCivil War Union Army Engineers Organization ChartArmy of the PotomacEngineersRegular ArmyEngineersVolunteer EngineerBrigade15thNew York VolunteerEngineer Regiment50th New York VolunteerEngineer RegimentThomas James Owen wrote a book describing his unit’s experiences during the Civil WarColonel William H. PettesRegimental CommanderGeneral Barton S. AlexanderBrigade CommanderExample of battery breastworks, fascines, and soil-filled gabions constructed in Peninsular Campaign near Yorktown, Virginia in March 1862Building a wooded “corduroy road” in the muddy realms of the James River Estuary during the Peninsular campaign in June 1862Constructing the first pontoon bridge under enemy fire during the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia on 11 December 1862Union engineers transporting bridge pontoons on specially built caissons; fromFrank Leslie’s IllustratedNews on 3 January 1863CanvasPontoonWoodenPontoonUnion pontoon bridge across unnamed Virginia River1864Longest Union pontoon bridge of the Civil War: 2, 170 feet across the James RiverEntrance to 50thNew YorkVolunteer EngineerRegiment; winter 1864-65Winter CampMarch 1864Officer’s Wintering Over QuartersMarch 1864Rappahannock Station, VirginiaMarch 1864Base Chapel constructed by 50thNew York Engineers at Poplar Grove, VirginiaMarch 1865References• Floyd, Dale E., ed., “Dear Friends at Home…”, The Letters and Diary of Thomas James Owen, Engineer Historical Studies, Number 4, 1985, U.S. Government Printing Office.• War of the Rebellion, Official Records, U.S. War Department, Series 1, Volume 5, Serial No. 5.• Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1997, Part II, Volumes 43, 44, Broadfoot Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC.•


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