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(568) Building the Victory: Volunteer Engineer Bde. Order Book 1863-65 HB 1998

(568) Building the Victory: Volunteer Engineer Bde. Order Book 1863-65 HB 1998. If the infantry bore the brunt of Civil War combat, it was the engineers who got them to where they could fight. The Union’s Army of the Potomac, that force gathered around Washington early in the war to take Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, was at first served by the regular U.S. Army’s battalion of engineers.