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Civil War Engineers! There were two engineering groups during the war, the corps of topographical engineers and a corps of engineers. The job of the engineers was to destroy bridges and roads and head the construction. Brig Gens, joseph Totten and Richard Delafield where head of the corps of engineers. They tried to perform these acts with normal soldiers and hired civilians. The union Under staffed the engineering corps, but they still completed many giant tasks. For example they built fortifications, roads and trenches. The confederates on the other hand had four commanding officers in their engineering corps. Brig Gens, Josiah Gorgas, Danville Leadbetter and Col. Alfred L. Rives where the head of the engineering corps, yes the south recruited Brig Gens. The confederates where on to a good idea that the union didn't seem to use though, They trained many of their commanding officers! One officer they trained went by the name of Robert E. Lee a famous confederate general. Even though the engineers repeatedly proved to be useful both sides of the war repeatedly under served them. By that I mean that they either couldn't financially afford the material, workers. They also just decided not to provide supplies sometimes. The reason that the confederates engineer corps was better was because of the man power they had in slaves, The union didn't have the man power in general to support an engineering corps so they used civilians. The war was made a more strategic battle because of the engineers! , A union Engineering corps Back in the day A large rail road being built by an engineering corps to help transport goods An engineering corps camp

The topographical engineers corps

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