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History Of The 1st U. S. Veteran Volunteer Engineers
FIRST UNITED STATES VETERAN VOLUNTEER ENGINEERS.

    This organization, Wm. E. Merrill, Colonel, was in its nature very like the
Pioneer Corps, except that it worked behind the army, while the Pioneer Corps went
ahead. Several regiments having served out the three years of their enlistment,
their officers obtained a permit from the war authorities to organize an "Engineer
Corps," and as the original design was that it should contain none but those who had
served a term of enlistment, it was called Veteran Volunteer Engineers. Organized in
the fall of 1864, it consisted of ten companies of one hundred and fifty men each.
It was intended to have twelve companies, but the regiment, like some of the
companies, was not full. The men of the regiment were armed as other troops and
drilled regularly, in order to be ready for an emergency.

    In the winter of 1864-5 they built immense fortifications at Chattanooga and
greatly aided our army by pontooning the Tennessee river, thus enabling Thomas to
follow Hood, who had burned the bridge after crossing. The companies were scattered
through the South, two at Chattanooga, one at Stephenson, Alabama, and several in
Georgia. Their work was mainly preparing canvas boats for pontoon bridges, and
making percussion-shell boxes, though they did some saw-milling and guard duty. They
were mustered out of service at Nashville, Tennessee, in front of Governor Folk's
residence, on High street, September 26, 1865.


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1669 Two Hundred Years. 1865

THE MILITARY HISTORY OF OHIO.
ITS BORDER ANNALS, ITS PART IN THE INDIAN WARS, IN THE WAR OF 1812, IN THE MEXICAN
WAR, AND IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, WITH A PREFIX, GIVING A COMPENDIUM OF THE
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, HISTORY OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, SKETCHES
OF ITS SIGNERS, AND OF THE PRESIDENTS, WITH PORTRAITS AND AUTOGRAPHS.

ILLUSTRATED.

SPECIAL LOCAL DEPARTMENT, IN EDITIONS BY COUNTIES, GIVING A ROSTER OF OHIO'S RANK
AND FILE FROM THE COUNTY LN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, REGIMENTAL HISTORIES, WITH
HISTORIES OF ITS G. A. R. AND LADIES' AUXILIARY POSTS, and CAMPS OF SONS OF
VETERANS.

H. H. HARDESTY, PUBLISHER, NEW YORK, TOLEDO AND CHICAGO.
1886.

[COPYRIGHTED.]
ROLL OF HONOR
OF OHIO'S RANK AND FILE FROM ASHLAND COUNTY IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION





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