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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
e Topographical Engineers, afterward major-general U. S. Vols., Civil War. is also ordered here. This will make, with Mr. Wood and myself, four officers, of whom I shall be the second in rank. Four others have been sent, I understand, with Colonel Kearney, from St. Louis to Santa Fe, namely, Emory, Warner, Peck and Abert. This makes eight officers of the corps in the field. I suppose you are aware a large cavalry force is being collected at San Antonio de Bexar, which is to be under the c and means of transportation furnished him. At the same time he advises the Government to allow him to take Tampico, and to hold the line of the Sierra Madre from Tampico to this place. Then, with General Wool at Monclova and Chihuahua, and General Kearney at Santa Fe and in California, we shall hold military possession of five of Mexico's provinces. Then let her come and take them from us, and we await her action. This plan of an armed occupation, I, individually, am opposed to, upon the
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 3 (search)
, and the total amount of the shore-line actually surveyed, including rivers and small streams, amounted to 6,000 miles. The officers who were successively in charge of the work were in the following order: Captain W. G. Williams, Lieutenant-Colonel James Kearney, Captain J. N. Macomb, Lieutenant-Colonel James Kearney, Captain George G. Meade, Colonel James D. Graham, Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. Reynolds, Major Cyrus B. Comstock, Captain Henry M. Adams, and Major Cyrus B. Comstock. Captain MeadeLieutenant-Colonel James Kearney, Captain George G. Meade, Colonel James D. Graham, Lieutenant-Colonel W. F. Reynolds, Major Cyrus B. Comstock, Captain Henry M. Adams, and Major Cyrus B. Comstock. Captain Meade's term of service in charge, being from 1857 to 1861, occurred very nearly in the middle of the whole period of the duration of the lake survey, which, as has been mentioned, was from 1851 to 1881. He entered upon this service at a time when the appliances and methods of the survey had long been of constantly improving geodetic grade, although, according to Lieutenant-Colonel Comstock, in the final report of the lake survey, it did not reach until 1870 the highest refinement in its theodolite
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
, 355, 356. Jenkins, Albert G., II, 19, 26, 101, 129. Jenkins, M., I, 287, 289-291. Johnson, Andrew, II, 288, 289, 291, 293, 295. Johnson, Edward, I, 197; II, 19, 24, 26, 57, 69, 90, 91, 92, 99, 101, 102, 105. Johnston, Joseph E., I, 196, 276, 346; II, 214, 271, 274. Johnston, Reverdy, II, 169, 177, 178. Jones, Mr., II, 258. Jones, J. M., II, 22, 90, 91, 95, 101. Julian, George W., II, 171, 253. K Kane, Thomas L., I, 232, 237, 273; II, 91, 92, 94, 101. Kearney, James, I, 111, 148, 209. Kearny, Philip, I, 255, 271, 284, 291, 293, 295, 296, 307, 324. Keith, Washington, II, 240, 241. Kelley, B. F., II, 309, 310. Kelly, Patrick, II, 86. Kemper, James L., I, 287-289, 293. Kendrick, Henry L., I, 12. Kent, Mr., II, 214. Kern, Gen., I, 286, 289, 291. Kershaw, Joseph B., II, 80, 85, 86. Ketland, John, I, 3. Ketland, Thomas, I, 3. Keyes, Erasmus D., I, 250, 253, 284. Kilpatrick, Judson, II, 8, 17, 23, 26, 65, 94, 100, 126