U. S. CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS

A Colorado non-profit Corporation for historical education

Tenth Anniversary 1996 - 2006

This is the website of the U. S. Corps of Topographical Engineers, a living history group portraying the history and techniques of the Corps from its inception through the Civil War

The U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers is affiliated with the Army of the West and with the 1st Federal Division, a partner in the North/South Alliance

updated 11 April, 2008

Third Annual Camp of Instruction
Planned for June 5-8, 2008
Announcement and Application

Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa article on
2007 Educator's Encampment,
Camp of Instruction for Topographical Engineers

"After breakfast the topographical engineers, Lieuts. Abert, Emory, and Peck, started for the prairies. They had some eight or ten voyageurs as servants, several pack mules, a baggage wagon, and a handsome spring car, with four mules harnessed to it, to 'tote' their instruments."

  Lt. Richard Smith Elliott, Laclede Rangers,
 Fort Leavenworth, 27 June 1846 

 "If I could step back into the 19th century, I would like to have been part of the dragoon escort for the topogs. They traveled in style." 

Arnold Scofield, Historian (ret), Fort Scott NHS, 1997

 

 

 
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