Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation's Capital

by William C. Dickinson

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At the age of thirty-six, in 1852, Lt. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs of the Army Corps of Engineers reported to Washington, D.C., for duty as a special assistant to the chief army engineer, Gen. Joseph G. Totten. It was a fateful assignment, both for the nation's capital and for the bright, ambitious, and politically connected West Point graduate.

Meigs's forty-year tenure in the nation's capital was by any account spectacularly successful...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0821413961

ISBN13:9780821413968

Release Date:February 2002

Publisher:Ohio University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"

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