. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . esolate region, was of the most fatiguingkind, but was well and thoroughly done. The few men avail-able from the engineer battalion aided as the instructors of theother troops engaged, and, by the time the movement begantoward INIalvern Hill, nearly all the troops of the Army ofthe Potomac had become accomplished in the arts of road-making, bridge-building, and entrenching. At ^Malvern Hill,the engineer battalion was posted as infantry, after preparingthe front of the line bj slashing or felling trees, to impedethe advance of the C
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . esolate region, was of the most fatiguingkind, but was well and thoroughly done. The few men avail-able from the engineer battalion aided as the instructors of theother troops engaged, and, by the time the movement begantoward INIalvern Hill, nearly all the troops of the Army ofthe Potomac had become accomplished in the arts of road-making, bridge-building, and entrenching. At ^Malvern Hill,the engineer battalion was posted as infantry, after preparingthe front of the line bj slashing or felling trees, to impedethe advance of the Confederates and to afford an open fieldof fire to the defending troops. After leaving Harrisons Landing on the withdrawalfrom the Peninsula, the battalion was sent to Fort JNIonroe toreplenish its materiel, and thence to the mouth of the Chicka-hominy, Avhere, in a short time, a fine pontoon bridge was con-structed for the jjassage of ]McClellans entire army. This bridge was 1980 feet long, and for the most part was ^^^S IlIE CHIf:F ENGINEER OF GENERAL GRANT. AND WEST When the war broke John Gross Barnardhad just published Dangersand Defences of New York(1859) and Notes on Sea-Coast Defence (1861). Hewas immediately summonedto Washington as chief engi-neer in charge of constructingthe defenses. Later he be-came chief engineer of theArmy of the Potomac withthe rank of brigadier-generaland chief engineer of GeneralGrant. General Barnard hadgraduated from the MilitaryAcademy at West Point inthe class of 1833, fought MAJOR-GENERAL JOHN GROSS BARNARD
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