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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), chapter 7 (search)
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), Index (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Meigs , Montgomery Cunningham 1816 -1892 (search)
Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham 1816-1892
Military officer; born in Augusta, Ga., May 3, 1816; graduated at the United States Military Academy, and commissioned a second lieutenant in the 1st Artillery and a brevet second lieutenant of engineers, all on July 1, 1836; resigned July 31, 1837; reappointed brevet second lieutenant of engineers on the following day; promoted first lieutenant in 1838; captain in 1853; colonel of the 11th Infantry and brigadier-general and quartermaster-general, in M the Potomac aqueduct, of the wings and dome of the extension of the national Capitol, and of the extension of the Post- Office Department.
Subsequently he was employed in preparing plans for the National Museum, and the new State,
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs. War, and Navy Department buildings, and, after his retirement, was the architect of the new Pension building, all in Washington.
He presented a remarkable collection of historical articles to the United States government, for deposit