page_title: 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Engineers and Mechanics
hierarchical_section_title: 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Engineers and Mechanics
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: photographichist01mill (find matches) Title: The photographic history of the Civil War&#160;: thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880- Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Publisher: New York&#160;: Review of Reviews Co. Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: )i()iight from Nashville. The roads were heavy with mud and tlie incessant rains had swollen the streams,making it not only .slow but almost impossible for wagon trains to keej) in touch witli tlic base. Over theCentral Alabama (Naslnillc and Decatur Railroad) food and other necessities for tlic armys verjexist- (212) Text Appearing After Image: Copi/riyitI by Review of Reviews Co. ENGINEERS AND INTANTRY BUSY AT THE ELK RIVER BRIDGE ence had to be transported. Among those workers who labored unconii)lainingly and whose work borefruit, was the First Regiment, Michigan Engineers, that numbered among its enlisted men mechanics andartisans of the first class. They built this bridge pictured here. Four companies were employed in itsconstruction, aided by an infantry detail working as laborers. The bridge was 700 feet long, 58 feet high,and crossed the Elk River at a point where the water was over 20 feet deep. At the right of the picturetliree of the engineer officers are consulting together, and to the left a squad of infantry are marching to theirjjosition as bridge guards. Here is the daily business of war—to which fighting is the occasional exception. \miiimiim^\ Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Engineers and Mechanics was an engineer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. There were only ten other similar regiments in the Union Army. The Michigan unit was one of three engineering regiments raised in 1861, the other two being Missouri and New York. Engineering regiments are often left off of many Order of Battles, but their contribution to campaigns were vital from a logistics point of view; repairing/building railroads, bridges and blockhouses; and destroying enemy communication lines, railroads and bridges. Engineering units like the First Michigan were often caught up in attacks from enemy guerrillas and cavalry skirmishes.
context_section_description: The 1st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Engineers and Mechanics was an engineer regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. There were only ten other similar regiments in the Union Army. The Michigan unit was one of three engineering regiments raised in 1861, the other two being Missouri (August 1861) and New York (September 1861). Engineering regiments are often left off of many Order of Battles, but their contribution to campaigns were vital from a logistics point of view; repairing/building railroads, bridges and blockhouses; and destroying enemy communication lines, railroads and bridges. Engineering units like the First Michigan were often caught up in attacks from enemy guerrillas and cavalry skirmishes.
caption: Engineers and infantry busy at the Elk River Bridge, Tennessee, providing rail passage for the Union troops
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