AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE MISSOURI ENGINEER AND THE 25TH INFANTRY REGIMENTS: together with a roster of both regiments and the last known address of all that could be obtained (Regimental History, 1st Missouri Engineers / 25th Missouri Inf.)

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BOO0K DESCRIPTION: 8vo., vii, (9)-305 pgs, frontis portrait, illustrations, portrait plates, index, marbled page edges. Unit roster (180)-244. Original green cloth with gilt decorative cover, gilt titled spine, floral endpapers. From the District of Columbia MILITARY ORDER Loyal Legion United States (MOLLUS) with rubber stamps on endpapers and preliminary page; with an author's presentation slip attached to blank preliminary page. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers bright and with minimal shelf rubbing; small discolored spot on rear cover near top edge. Interior pages are clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The Missouri Engineers saw duty in Missouri until March 1862. Had engagements at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., Battle of Shiloh; and siege of Corinth. Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., thence to Pilot Knob and Patterson, Mo. Duty in Southeast Missouri until March, 1863. Moved to Iron Mountain, thence to St. Joseph, Mo., and operating against guerrillas in Northwest Missouri until June. Ordered to New Madrid, Mo., and garrison duty there and reconstructing fortifications until February, 1864. In February 1864 the 25th Missouri Infantry and Bissell's Engineer Regiment of the West were consolidated to form the 1st Missouri Engineer Regiment. The 1st Missouri Engineers figured largely in Sherman's March to the Sea and the Carolinas Campaign. In addition to building roads and repairing railroads and bridges, the regiment provided "pontooneer" detachments which transported and constructed mobile temporary bridges which sped the movement of Sherman's units. Confederate General Joe Johnston paid tribute to the 1st Missouri (and Sherman's other engineers) when he said: "When I learned that Sherman s army was marching through the Salk swamps, making its own corduroy roads at the rate of a dozen miles a day, I made up my mind that there had been no such army in existence since the days of Julius Caesar." Scarce Missouri regimental history, here in nice condition with an author's presentation to the DC MOLLUS. REFERENCES: DORN II# 663; NEVINS I pg. 135 A hodgepodge of recollections, presented in day-by-day form; very good for how engineers functioned during the Civil War. N° de ref. del artículo 0124020

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