Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces
Author: Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1905-1906
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385471249
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington
Author: Louis TorresPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907521287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's 1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and, from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n 1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they completed the construction of this great American landmark. The book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs, some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in 1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2052
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1870
Book Description
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Indiana
Author: Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Grand Lodge of IndianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Engineering News-record
Author: Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 908
Book Description
New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description