| The Nation Builders: A Sesquicentennial History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers 1838-1863 Contributor(s): Schubert, Frank N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1410218724 ISBN-13: 9781410218728 Publisher: University Press of the Pacific OUR PRICE: $23.28 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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." ROBERT W. PAGE Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works) |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 6" W x 9" (0.33 lbs) 96 pages |
