. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. MICHIGAN To Her FIRST REGIMENT ENGINEERS AND MECHANICS, William P. Innes, Colonel Commanding. Army of the Cumberland. A detachment of this regiment, Captain Perrin V- Fox commanding, pre-pared the materials and constructed the pontoon bridges crossing the Ten-nessee River at this city and Browns Ferry, and the South ChickamaugaRiver, near the north end of Missionary Ridge. Other detachments of theregiment were engaged during the campaigns along the railroad from Chat-tanooga to
. History of the Michigan organizations at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and Missionary Ridge, 1863 [electronic resource]. MICHIGAN To Her FIRST REGIMENT ENGINEERS AND MECHANICS, William P. Innes, Colonel Commanding. Army of the Cumberland. A detachment of this regiment, Captain Perrin V- Fox commanding, pre-pared the materials and constructed the pontoon bridges crossing the Ten-nessee River at this city and Browns Ferry, and the South ChickamaugaRiver, near the north end of Missionary Ridge. Other detachments of theregiment were engaged during the campaigns along the railroad from Chat-tanooga to Murfreesboro building bridges and other engineer duties. COLONEE FOXS ADDKESS. Comrades and Fellow Citizens: The State of Michigan, by her constitutedauthorities, with the sanction and co-operation of the national government,has provided this monument to perpetuate the remembrance of her soldiers,members of her First Regiment of Engineers and Mechanics, in the greatestcivil war known in the worlds history. The location here, near the head-quarters of General Thomas, is very appropriate, being also near the camp. MONUMENT, FIRST MICHIGAN ENGINEERS, ORCHARD KNOB. HISTORY OF MICHIGAN ORGANIZATIONS. 261 of a battalion of the regiment, and central to their operations in a campaign. culminating in a complete victory for the Union army, and the permanent possession of Chattanooga. , As the details of this branch of the service have not been shown in the reports of general officers, I deem it a fitting occasion to briefly allude to those having intimate connection with the results 29, 1863, the regiment received orders to move south from Murfrees- boro to open and repair the line of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad. During July and August it was engaged in repairing the railroad from Mur- freesboro to Bridgeport, where a bridge of part trestles and some pontoon boats was made to cross the Tennessee River. General Sheridans troops and others crossed on it. Thirty-tw
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