U. S. CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS

TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS SERVING DURING THE CIVIL WAR

INCLUDES "VOLUNTEER," "ACTING," AND "ASSISTANT" TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS
AS WELL AS ENGINEERS AND CIVILIANS PRODUCING MAPS

Names are taken from the Official Records of the Rebellion and other sources.

 Rank is that mentioned in the Official Records, not necessarily the highest attained.

Abbot, Captain Henry L.
Abert, Captain  James W.
Abert, Colonel J. J.
Adler, Dankmar
Allen, Lieutenant Mundy
Andrews, Lieutenant
Angel, Major  Ashbel W.
Bache, Colonel  Hartman
Barlow, Bgd Gen John Whitney
Bauer, Lieutenant  G. A.
Beeman, Lieutenant  J. A.
Beer, Captain  William N.
Bell, L.
Bennett, Captain Samuel A.
Berthoud, Captain  Edward L.
Bierce, Lieutenant A. G.
Boal, Lieutenant
Bonnaffon, Major Augustus B.
Boyd, Major Charles Harrod USCS
Boutelle, Charles O. (C.A.)  USCS
Bowen, First Lieutenant  Nicolas
Briscoe, Captain  Benjamin F.
Brown, Lieutenant  G. P.
Buckland, Lieutenant
Burroughs, Lieutenant George
Bush, Lieutenant  Henry M.
Church, Captain Benjamin Silliman
Cilley, Captain C. A.
Clark, Colonel John S.
Cole, Captain Leonidas A.
Collins, Lieutenant  Colonel  C. R.
Cram, Colonel  Thomas Jefferson
Crow, Lieutenant George R
Cushing, First Lieutenant  Alonzo H.
Custer, Lieutenant George A.
Cutts, Colonel  Richard Dominicus
Davis, S.
Dixon, Lieutenant  J.
Donn, Mr. John W. (assistant, U. S. Coast Survey)
Dorr, Captain F. W. (U. S. Coast Survey)
Dunn, Lieutenant H. C.
Dunning, S. W.
Echols, Second Lieutenant W. H.
Ellis, Captain  Milo D.
Feilner, Captain  John
Fendall, Clarence  USCS
Fiala, Colonel John T.
Fisher, Capt. Horace Newton
Fisher, Major  W.
Forsyth, Captain
Franklin, Captain
Frick, Lieutenant  Killian
Gaw, Captain William B.
Gerster, Captain  Anton
Greenwood, Lieutenant William H.
Gunn, Lieutenant  Thomas M.
Hains, First Lieutenant Peter C.
Harwood, First Lieutenant  Franklin
Hayes, First Lieutenant Charles E.
Heine, Captain Wilhelm (William)
Heydtman, Lieutenant
Heywood, Second Lieutenant Harvey
Hope, Captain James
Hullub,1st Lt. Rudolph
Humphreys, Brigadier General Andrew A.
Ingraham, Lieutenant Nathan. D.
Jenney, Captain
Johnson, Lieutenant  H. C. .
Karnasch, Second Lieutenant  Julius E.
Kibler, Lieutenant F. F.
Kolomb, Lieutenant
Kuntze, Lieutenant  John Paul
Le Fevre, Captain Isaac H.
Lemert, Captain  George A.
Leski, Captain
Lewis,Captain  P. B.
Ligousky, Captain August
Long, Colonel  Stephen H.
Luce, William
Ludden, Lieutenant
Lyon, Captain Sydney S.
Mackenzie, Lieutenant  Ranald Slidell
Macklind, Lieutenant  Thomas H.
Macomb, Lieutenant Colonel J. N.
Margedant, Captain W. C.
Matz, Major Otto H.
McClellan, First Lieutenant  Carswell
McComas, Captain  William R.
McDowell, Captain Robert M.
McElfatrick, Captain Isaiah. C.
McGowan, Lieutenant Theodore
McLoughlin, Captain William
 McMillan, Captain
McPherson, Lt. Colonel James Birdseye
Meigs, Captain
Mendell, Lieutenant G. H.
Mendenhall, Captain John
Merrill, Captain William E
Metzner, Adolph
Michler, Major  Nathaniel
Miles, Lieutenant
Miller, Mr. A. B. (civilian)
Mitchel, Lieutenant Lebbeus H.
Michie, Captain Peter Smith
Mohrhardt, Major  Francis
Newell, Captain
Nitchey, Mr. F. H.
Oltmanns, Major J. G.
Oswell, L. C.
Paine, Captain  William H.
Palmer, Colonel William R.
Parke, Captain John Grubb
Partridge, Captain William
Petri, Major
Pitzman, Captain  Julius
Poe, First Lieutenant Orlando Metcalf
Powell, Captain W. Angelo
Prime, Captain Frederick E.
Putnam, First Lieutenant  Haldemand S.
Raynolds, Captain  W. F.
Reed, Lieutenant Charles Wellington
Reese, Captain  Chauncey Barnes
Remington, (?)
Riley, Captain John W.
Robinson, Captain A. K.
Rockwell, Cleveland Sub Assistant USCS
Roebling, Lieutenant Washington A.
Ruger, Captain  Ed.
Russell, Captain  H. Y.
Schilling, Captain Eugene
Schofield, Captain Levi T.  (Scofield)
Scott, Lieutenant
Scupham, J.  R.,
Seville, Captain William P.
Simpson, Captain  James H.
Skinner, Major  C. W.
Smith, Lieutenant  J. L. Kirby
Sneden, Robert K. (Pvt)
Spencer, Lieutenant Frank
Starbird, Second Lieutenant  S. B.
Starling, Captain William
Steele, Captain  J. W.
Stickney, Lieutenant
Stockton, Captain Howard
Stransz, A.  USCS
Strother, Colonel David Hunter
Taffing, Mr.
Talcott, R. H. Aide USCS
Talfor, R. B.
Taylor, Captain (?)
Theilkuhl, First Lieutenant Ferd.
Thom, Colonel George
Thorp, Lieutenant
Townsend, Lieutenant Henry H.
Tubbs, Captain  George
Tunica, F.
Turnbull, Captain Charles N.
Tuttle, Lieutenant  Russell M.
Twining, Lieutenant William Johnson
Ulffers, Mr. Herman A.
Viele, Captain Egbert
von Koerber,  Captain V. E.
von Luttwitz, Captain  A.
von Minden, Major  Henning
Wagner, First Lieut. Orlando G.
Wallace, Captain  Frederick S.
Warren, Brigadier  General  Gouverneur K.
Webster, General Jos. D.
Wellman, Captain  D. W.
Wells, Lieutenant William W.
West, Captain  P. C. F.
Weyss, Major John E.
Wharton, Lieutenant  Colonel  H. C.
Whipple, General  Amiel W.
Wickes, Captain  E.  A.
Wilcox, Lieutenant William H.
Williamson, Captain Robert S.
Willsey, Captain  Joseph H.
Wilson, First Lieutenant  James Harrison
Wilson, First Lieutenant John Moulder
Woodruff, Major
Worret, Lieutenant Charles
Wrigley, Captain Henry E.
Wrotnowski,  Lieutenant L. A.

 

TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS APPOINTED GENERALS (U.S.A., VOLUNTEERS, BREVETS) IN THE CIVIL WAR2

Rank and Name, January 1861 Highest Civil War and Lifetime Rank
Majors
 Hartman Bache Brig. Gen. (brevet, 1865)
   
Captains
 Thomas J. Cram * Maj. Gen. (brevets, 1866)
William B. Franklin * Maj. Gen. (brevet, 1865)
Andrew A. Humphreys Maj. Gen. (Vols, 1862; brevets, 1865; Brig. Gen. Chief of  Engineers, 1866)
George G. Meade * Maj. Gen. (Brig. Gen. Vols, 1861; Maj. Gen. Vols, 1862; Brig. Gen. U.S.A., 1863; Maj. Gen. U.S.A., 1864)
John Pope * Maj. Gen. (Vols, 1862; Brig. Gen. U.S.A., 1862; brevet  Maj. Gen., 1865) 
William F. Raynolds Brig. Gen. (brevet, 1865)
Martin L. Smith * Maj. Gen., C.S.A
William F. Smith Maj. Gen. (brevets, 1865)
George Thom * Brig. Gen. (brevet, 1865)
Amiel W. Whipple Maj. Gen. (brevets, 1863; died, 1863)
Israel G. Woodruff Brig. Gen. (brevet, 1865) 
   
 First Lieutenants
Henry L. Abbot Maj. Gen. (brevet Brig. Gen. Vols, 1864; brevet Brig. Gen.,  1865; brevet Maj. Gen. Vols, 1865) 
Nathaniel Michler Brig. Gen. (brevet, 1865) 
 John G. Parke Maj. Gen. (Brig. Gen. Vols, 1862; brevet Maj. Gen., 1865)
Orlando F. Poe Erig. Gen. (Vols, 1862; brevet, 1865)
Gouverneur K. Warren Maj. Gen. (Maj. Gen. Vols, 1863; brevet Maj. Gen., 1865)
   
Brevet Second Lieutenants
 James H. Wilson Maj. Gen. (brevets, 1865) 
   
Former Topographical Engineers
William H. Emory * Maj. Gen. (Brig. Gen. Vols, 1862; Maj. Gen. Vols, 1865;  brevets, 1865) 
John C. Fremont * Maj. Gen. (Maj. Gen., 1861)
Joseph E.Johnston * Gen., C.S.A
Eliakim P. Scammon *  Brig. Gen. (Vols, 1862) 
Joseph D. Webster * Brig. Gen. (Vols, 1862) 
Thomas J. Wood * Maj. Gen. (Brig. Gen. Vols, 1861; Maj. Gen. Vols, 1865;  brevets, 1865) 

2  from Traas, Adrian G., From the Golden Gate to Mexico City --  The Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846--1848.   Wash., DC, CMH Pub 70-10 (GPO), 1992.
 

 

 

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