U.S. Corps of Topographical Engineers
Topographical Engineer
Schedule
for 2010 to 2013
Coming up soon!
TOPOG SCHOOL!
Living History Encampment,
Bent's Old Fort
June 5-9, 2013
Ohio Civil War Show
May 4-5, 2013
U. S. CORPS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERS
A Colorado non-profit Corporation for historical education
Fifteenth Anniversary 1995 - 2010
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 First Federal Division
of the
Blue - Gray Alliance
updated 28 March, 2013
Next Topographical Engineer School will be June 5-9, 2013
Announcement and Application available!
"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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