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Reports of Exploration

• Report of explorations across the great basin of the territory of Utah for a direct wagon-route from Camp Floyd to Genoa, in Carson Valley, in 1859, by Captain J. H. Simpson ... United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1876.

• An expedition to the valley of the Great salt lake of Utah: including a description of its geography, natural history, and minerals, and an analysis of its waters; with an authentic account of the Mormon settlement ... Also, a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky mountains, and two large and accurate maps of that region.United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers [ Captain Howard Stansbury ].  Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1855.

• The Mormons or Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of The Great Salt Lake.  A History of their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition, and Prospects, Derived from Personal Observation During a Residence Among Them.  by Lieut. J. W. Gunnison, of the Topographical Engineers.  London:  Sampson Low, Son, & Co. 47, Ludgate Hill.  Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, & Co. 1852.

• Exploration and survey of the valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains. by Howard Stansbury, Captain, Corps Topographical Engineers, United States Army.   Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.

• Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado rivers, United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. [ Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves ]  Washington, R. Armstrong, public printer, 1853.

• Report upon the Colorado River of the West, explored in 1857 and 1858. United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers. [ Lieut. Joseph C. Ives ]  Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1861.

• Report on the Surveys of the Boundary between the State of Michigan & the Territory of Wiskonsin. unpublished 1840 Journals of Captain Thomas Jefferson Cram of the United States Corps of Topographical Engineers. (with maps).

• Report of the survey of the North and Northwest Lakes.  by Capt. George G. Meade, being Appendix I of the Report of the Chief Topographical Engineer, accompanying Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1858

• Report from Major Bache on the progress of work at Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse, November 1, 1839.   New Jersey Lighthouse Society - Historical Documents

• Report Intended to Illustrate A Map of the Hydrographical Basin of the Upper Mississippi River.  by J. N. Nicollet, Esq.  U.S. Congress, Senate, 26th Cong., 2d Session., 1841. Senate Doc 237.

• Report of the exploring expedition from Santa Fé, New Mexico, to the junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the great Colorado of the West, in 1859, under the command of Capt. J. N. Macomb. With geological report by J. S. Newberry.  United States Army, Corps of Topographical Engineers.  Washington:  Govt. Print. Off., 1876.

• Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.  Made under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by William H. Emory, Major, First Cavalry and United States Commissioner.

  • Volume I

  • Part I. 

    Personal Account
    General Description of the Country
    Lower Rio Bravo
    From the 111th Meridian of Longitude to the Pacific Ocean. -- The Report of Lieutenant Michler.
    Astronomical and Geodetic Work
    Meteorology

  • Part II -

    Geological Reports of Doctor C. C. Parry and Assistant Arthur Schott
    Notes by W. H. Emory
    Paleontology and Geology of the Boundary by James Hall, of Albany, New York
    Description of Cretaceous and Tertiary Fossils by T. A. Conrad, Esq
    

  • Volume II

  • Part I - 

    Botany of the Boundary

    • Introduction

    • General Botany

    • Cactaceæ

  • Part II - 

    Zoology of the Boundary

    • Reptiles

    • Fishes

    • Birds

    • Mammals

• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.  Made under the direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-4, according to Acts of Congress of March 3, 1853, May 31, 1854, and August 5, 1854.  Nicholson, Washington, 1856.

• Maps

• Volume 1 

• Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. 

• Supplement. Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad, near the Forty-Seventh and Forty-Ninth Parallels of North Latitude from St. Paul to Puget Sound by I. I Stevens.

• Volume 2

• Report, by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, upon the Route near the Thirty-Eighth and Thirty-Ninth Parallels, Explored by Captain J. W. Gunnison, Corps Topographical Engineers.

• Report of Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, upon the Route near the Forty-First Parallel.

• Report of a Reconnaissance from Puget Sound, via South Pass, to the Mississippi River, by F. W. Lander, Civil Engineer.

• Report of Brevet Captain John Pope, Corps Topographical Engineers, upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel, Lying Between the Red River and the Rio Grande.

• Report on the Geology of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel: Prepared from the Collection and Notes of Capt. Pope, by William P. Blake, Geologist of the Office of the United States Pacific Railroad Surveys.

• Report of Lieutenant John G. Parke, Corps Topographical Engineers, upon the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel, Lying Between the Rio Grande and Pimas Village, on the Gila.

• Extract from Report of a Military Reconnaissance Made by Lieutenant Colonel W. H. Emory, U. S. Army, of the Portion of the Route near the Thirty-Second Parallel, Lying Between the Mouths of the San Pedro and Gila Rivers.

• Volume 3

• Extracts from the [Preliminary] Report of Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, Corps of Topographical Engineers, upon the Route near the Thirty-Fifth Parallel, with an Explanatory Note by Captain A. A. Humphreys, Corps of Topographical Engineers.

• Part 1.  Report. Explorations for a Railway Route, near the Thirty-Fifth Parallel of North Latitude, from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean: By Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, Corps Of Topographical Engineers Assisted by Lieutenant J. C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers.

• Part 2. Report of the Topographical Features and Character of the Country.

• Part 3. Route near the Thirty-Fifth Parallel, under the Command of Lieut. A. W. Whipple, Topographical Engineers, in 1853 and 1854. Report upon the Indian Tribes, by Lieut. A. W. Whipple, Thomas Ewbank, Esq., and Prof. Wm. W. Turner.

• Part 4. Route near the Thirty-Fifth Parallel, Explored By Lieut. A. W. Whipple, Topographical Engineers, in 1853 and 1854. Report on the Geology of the Route.

• Part 5. Route near the Thirty-Fifth Parallel, Explored by Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, Topographical Engineers, in 1853 and 1854. Report on the Botany of the Expedition.

• Volume 4

• Part 6. Route near the Thirty-Fifth Parallel of North Latitude, Explored by Lieut. A. W. Whipple, Topographical Engineers. Report of the Zoology of the Expedition.

• Appendices to Report by Lieut. A. W. Whipple.

• Volume 5

• Part 1. Report. Explorations In California for Railroad Routes, to Connect with the Routes near the 35th and 32nd Parallels of North Latitude by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers.

• Part 2. Routes in California, to Connect with the Routes near the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Second Parallels, Explored by Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1853. Geological Report, by William P. Blake, Geologist and Mineralogist of the Expedition.

• Part 3. Routes in California, to Connect with the Routes near the Thirty-Fifth and Thirty-Second Parallels, Explored by Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1853. Botanical Report, by E. Durand and T. C. Hilgard, M. D.

• Volume 6

• Part 1. Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers upon Explorations for a Railroad Route, the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River, Made by Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Assisted by Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers.

• Part 2. Routes in California and Oregon Explored by Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, and Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1855. Geological Report.

• Part 3. Routes in California and Oregon Explored by Lieut. R. S Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, and Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1855. Botanical Report.

• Part 4. Routes in California and Oregon Explored by Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, and Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers, in 1855. Zoological Report.

• Volume 7

• Part 1. Report of Explorations for Railroad Routes San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles, West of the Coast Range, and from the Pimas Villages on the Gila to the Rio Grande, near the 32d Parallel of North Latitude, Lieutenant John G. Parke, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Assisted by Albert H. Campbell, Civil Engineer.

• Part 2. Report of Explorations for Railroad Routes San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles, West of the Coast Range, and from the Pimas Villages on the Gila to the Rio Grande, near the 32d Parallel of North Latitude, Lieutenant John G. Parke, Corps of Topographical Engineers. Geological Report, by Thomas Antisell, M. D., Geologist of the Expedition.

• Part 3. Report of Explorations for Railroad Routes San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles, West of the Coast Range, and from the Pimas Villages on the Gila to the Rio Grande, near the 32d Parallel of North Latitude, Lieutenant John G. Parke, Corps of Topographical Engineers. Botanical Report: John Torrey, M.D.

• Conclusion of the Official Review of the Reports upon the Explorations and Surveys for Railroad Routes from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

• Appendices. Report of Explorations for Railroad Routes San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles, West of the Coast Range, and from the Pimas Villages on the Gila to the Rio Grande, near the 32d Parallel of North Latitude, Lieutenant John G. Parke, Corps of Topographical Engineers. 

• Volume 8

• Part 1. General Report Upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes.  by Spencer F. Baird. 

• Volume 9

•  Part 2. General Report Upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes. Birds: by Spencer F. Baird.

• Volume 10

• Report of Lieut. E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery, upon Explorations for a Railroad Route, near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, by Captain J. W. Gunnison, Corps of Topographical Engineers, and near the Forty-First Parallel of North Latitude, by Lieut. E. G. Beckwith, Third Artillery. Zoological Report.

• Report of Explorations for a Railroad Route near the 32d Parallel of North Latitude, Lying Between Dona Ana, on the Rio Grande, and Pimas Villages, on the Gila, by Lieutenant John G. Parke, Corps of Topographical Engineers. Zoological Report.

• Part 3. General Report upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes. Reptiles: by Spencer F. Baird.

• Part 4 - Report of Explorations in California for Railroad Routes to Connect with the Routes near the 35th and 32s Parallels of North Latitude. By Lieutenant R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers.

• Part 4. General Report upon the Zoology of the Several Pacific Railroad Routes. Fishes: by Charles Girard, M. D.

• Part 4 no. 4 Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers, upon Explorations for a Railroad Route, from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River, Made by Lieut. R. S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Assisted by Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers. Zoological Report.

• Part 6. Report of Exploration for a Railway Route (near the thirty-fifth Parallel of North Latitude) from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, by Lieutenant A. W. Whipple, Corps of Topographical Engineers; assissted by Lieutent J.C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers. Zoological Report.

• Volume 12

• Part 1. Narrative Final Report of Explorations for a Route for a Pacific Railroad, near the Forty-Seventh and Forty-Ninth Parallels of North Latitude, St. Paul to Puget Sound. Isaac I. Stevens, Governor of Washington Territory.

• Part 2. Route near the Forty-Seventh and Forty-Ninth Parallels, Explored by I. I. Stevens, Governor of Washington. Botanical Report.

• Part 3. Route near the Forty-Seventh and Forty-Ninth Parallels, Explored by I. I. Stevens, Governor of Washington. Zoological Report.

• Des Moines and Rock River rapids, in the Mississippi River. Letter from the Secretary of war, transmitting the inspection report of Colonel S. H. Long, and the report of Lieutenant Warren of his operations during the past year on the Des Moines and Rock River rapids, in the Mississippi River. United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1854.

•   Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego, in California.    by William H. Emory, 1848. 30th Congress, 1st session, Senate Document No. 7.

• Exploration of the Red river of Louisiana in the year 1852,  With reports on the natural history of the country, and numerous illustrations. by Randolph B. Marcy; assisted by George B. McClellan

• Message from the governor of Maryland, transmitting the reports of the joint commissioners, and of Lt. Col. Graham, U. S. engineers, in relation to the intersection of the boundary lines of the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania, & Delaware. by the Commission on Boundary Lines between Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania (1850)

• Report of the secretary of war, communicating a reconnoissance of the gulf of California and the Colorado river by Lieutenant Derby. United States Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1852

• Report upon the Colorado River of the West, explored in 1857 and 1858.  by Lieutenant Joseph C. Ives, Corps of Topographical Engineers, 1861.
  
  

Scientific Papers and Reports of Investigations

• Army meteorological register, for twelve years, from 1843 to 1854, inclusive, compiled from observations made by the officers of the Medical department of the army, at the military posts of the United States. Prepared under the direction of Thomas Lawson, surgeon general United States army. Published by authority of Hon. Jefferson Davis, secretary of war. United States. Surgeon-General's Office 1855

• On the use of the barometer on surveys and reconnaissances.  by Robert Stockton Williamson, Professional papers of the Corps of engineers, U.S. army, 1868.

• Is a ship canal practicable? Notes, historical and statistical, upon the projected routes for an interoceanic ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. By Silvanus Thayer Abert., 1872

• Report in reference to the canal to connect the Chesapeake and Ohio canal with the city of Baltimore, by Colonel J. J. Abert, 1838

• Report of the secretary of war, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, Lieutenant Michler's report of his survey for an interoceanic ship canal near the Isthmus of Darien. United States War Dept, 1861.

• Reports on the construction of the piers of the aqueduct of the Alexandria canal across the Potomac River at Georgetown, District of Columbia; by William Turnbull, U S Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, reprinted for the Corps of Engineers, 1873

• Siege artillery in the campaigns against Richmond, with notes on the 15-inch gun, including an algebraic analysis of the trajectory of a shot in its ricochets upon smooth water. By Henry L. Abbot, 1867

• Military Road from Fort Benton to Fort Walla-Walla. the report of Lieutenant Mullan, War Department, Office of Explorations and Surveys, 1861.

• Memoir on ocean routes between Atlantic and Pacific ports of the United States, extracted from Military Topographical Memoirs. by Captain T. Jefferson Cram, United States Corps of Topographical Engineers, Chief Topographical Engineer, Military Department of the Pacific, November, 1856.

• Coronado's March in Search of the "Seven Cities of Cibola," and Discussion of their Probable Location.  by Brevet Brigadier General J. H. Simpson, Colonel of Engineers, USA, 1869.

• The plane-table and its use in topographical surveying.  United States Coast Survey, 1869
  
  

Texts

• An elementary course of civil engineering, for the use of cadets of the United States Military Academy. By D. H. Mahan, 1871

• Descriptive geometry, as applied to the drawing of fortification and stereotomy. For the use of the cadets of the U.S. Military academy. By D.H. Mahan

• An elementary course of military engineering ... By D. H. Mahan

• A treatise on field fortification, containing instructions on the methods of laying out, constructing, defending, and attacking intrenchments, with the general outlines also of the arrangement, the attack and defence of permanent fortifications. By D. H. Mahan

• Industrial drawing; comprising the description and uses of drawing instruments, the construction of plane figures, the projections and sections of geometrical solids ... with remarks on the method of teaching the subject. For the use of academies and common schools. By D. H. Mahan

• A Treatise on Land Surveying: Comprising the Theory Developed from Five Elementary Principles, and the Practice with the Chain Alone, the Compass, the Transit, the Theodolite, the Plane Table, &c.  By William Mitchell Gillespie.  This is the 1865 edition.

• The Plane-table and Its Use in Topographical Surveying.  U. S. Coast Survey, 1869.

• Practical treatise on the differential and integral calculus, with some of its applications to mechanics and astronomy. By William G. Peck

• Field notebook.  1828 field notebook of Washington Hood.
  
  

Mexican War -- General

• A narrative of Major General Wool's campaign in Mexico, in the years 1846, 1847, and 1848. By Francis Baylies.1851.

• A sketch of the life of Com. Robert F. Stockton; with an appendix, comprising his correspondence with the Navy department respecting his conquest of California; and extracts from the defence of Col. J. C. Fremont, in relation to the same subject; together with his speeches in the Senate of the United States and his political letters.  by Samuel John Bayard.1856

• The Mexican war and its heroes: being a complete history of the Mexican war, embracing all the operations under Generals Taylor and Scott, with a biography of the officers. Also, an account of the conquests of California and New Mexico.  J. B. Lippincott & co., Philadelphia,1860

• Sketches of the campaign in northern Mexico in eighteen hundred forty-six and seven,  by an officer of the First Regiment of Ohio volunteers. By Luther Giddings, 1853.

• Battles of the United States, by sea and land: embracing those of the revolutionary and Indian wars, the war of 1812, and the Mexican war with important official documents. By Henry B. Dawson, 1858

• History of the war between the United States and Mexico, from the commencement of hostilities to the ratification of the treaty of peace. by John S Jenkins, 1850

• Life and correspondence of John A. Quitman, Governor of the state of Mississippi. By John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne , 1860

• Memoirs of a Maryland volunteer. War with Mexico, in the years 1846-8. By John R. Kenly., 1873.

• A Campaign In New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan.  By Frank Edwards

• From the Golden Gate to Mexico City - The U. S. Army Topographical Engineers in the Mexican War, 1846 - 1848. By Adrian G. Traas.
  
  

Civil War -- General

• War of the Rebellion: Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

• The Army of the Potomac: its organization, its commander, and its campaign. By the prince de Joinville. Translated. from the French, with notes, by William Henry Hurlbert, 1862.

• The Peninsular campaign and its antecedents, as developed by the report of Maj.-Gen. Geo. B. McClellan, and other published documents.  By J. G. Barnard, 1864.

• The siege of Richmond: a narrative of the military operations of Major-General George B. McClellan during May and June, 1862. By Joel Cook, 1862

• Rosecrans' campaign with the fourteenth army corps, or the Army of the Cumberland: a narrative of personal observations with official reports of the battle of Stone River. by William Denison Bickham, 1863.

• Report of Major-General John Pope. Letter from the secretary of war, in answer to resolution of the House of 18 th ultimo, transmitting copy of report of Major General John Pope. March 3, 1863.-- Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. : United States. Army. Dept. of Virginia, 1863

• U.S. infantry tactics. for the instruction, exercise, and manoeuvres of the United States infantry, including infantry of the line, light infantry, and riflemen. Prepared under the direction of the War department, and authorized and adopted by the secretary of war, May 1, 1861.

• Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian: First Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian: Second Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian: Third Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian: Fourth Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian: Fifth Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian: The Valley of the Shenandoah -- Bank's Retreat: Sixth Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections of the War by a Virginian: Concentration in Virginia: Seventh Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections Of the War by a Virginian: Battle of Cedar Mountain: Eighth Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections Of the War by a Virginian: Battle of Groveton, Pope's Campaign In Virginia: Ninth Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections Of the War by a Virginian: Battle of Antietam: Tenth Paper,  by D. H. Strother

  Personal Recollections Of the War by a Virginian: Eleventh Paper,  by D. H. Strother
  
  

General

• The life of Col. John Charles Fremont, and his narrative of explorations and adventures, in Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon and California. The memoir by Samuel M. Smucker, 1856.

• Phoenixiana; or, Sketches and burlesques. By John Phoenix [pseud.]  by George Horatio Derby, 1856

• Memoir of the life and public services of John Charles Frémont. By John Bigelow, 1856

• United States exploring expeditions. Voyage of the U.S. exploring squadron, commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842; together with explorations and discoveries made by Admiral D'Urville, Captain Ross, and other navigators and travellers; and an account of the expedition to the Dead Sea, under Lieutenant Lynch. By John S. Jenkins, 1850.

• The Prairie Traveler by Capt. Randolph Barnes Marcy

• Commerce of the Prairies (Volumes I & II ) by Josiah Gregg
  
  

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