U. S. CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS

A Colorado non-profit Corporation for historical education

Tenth Anniversary 1995 - 2005

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

June 2009
 Topographical Engineer Interpretation Course.
Information and application.

Images from 2008 course

updated 9 April, 2009

"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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