Contents

Schedule of Events for 2008-2010

Living History -- Event Images

Battle of Corinth

• Construction of Battery "Powellinett" -- Historical images and maps

• Battle of Corinth scenes

Bent's Old Fort

• Living History Encampment, 2008  New Jan 2009

• Educator's Encampment, 2007

  • article about 2007 event -- Dan Rittel, PLS,  Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa

  • Announcement and Application for 2009

• Educator's Encampment, 2006

• 1846 Christmas, 2006

Oregon - California Trails Association (OCTA)

• Oregon Trail filming of In Pursuit of a Dream  New, Jan 2009

Ft Scott and Rayado

• Ft Scott -- 2006 Blackhawk assault

St. Patrick's Day Parade, Denver 2007

• San Patricio Memorial Battalion

History

• History of the Corps of Topographical Engineers
• The Corps of Topographical Engineers, by William M. Robinson, Jr.
• Pre Civil War -- Roster of the Corps of Topographical Engineers
• Civil War -- Topographical Engineers Serving During the Civil War
• General Regulations Pertaining to Duties and Dress
• Civil War Maps and Charts by State
• The Retreat from Pulaski to Nashville, Tenn. by Levi Scofield
• The Topographical Engineers Balloon Corps
• The Balloons with the Army of the Potomac. by T. S. C. Lowe
• Reunification of the Corps of Engineers and the Corps of Topographical Engineers
• Engineers in the Union Army, 1861 - 1865. by Phillip M. Thienel

EXPEDITIONS

• Kearny's Plains Expedition of 1845

WAR IN NEW MEXICO

• Topographical Engineers are ordered to Fort Leavenworth 
• The Army of the West - Fort Leavenworth to Bent's Fort
• Events at Bent's Fort  
• The Army of the West - Bent's Fort to Santa Fe
• The New York Herald Reports the Mexican War

Technique and Philosophy

• Finding the Way and Fixing the Boundary
• Washington Hood's Field Notebook
• William Luce's Field Notebook
• Francis Mohrhardt's Field Notebook
• Mode of Determining the Astronomical Positions and the Elements of Magnetism at Temporary Camps
• Australian Exploration and the Introduction of the Aneroid Barometer

• (see also) On the use of the barometer on surveys and reconnaissances

• The Geography of Chaos:  William H. Emory's Images of the Texas Borderlands
• The Moons of Jupiter and Greenwich Time

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