Confederate engineer
Subtitle: training and campaigning with John Morris Wampler
By: George G. Kundahl.
Contributors: United States Civil War Center.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Voices of the Civil War; Voices of the Civil War series.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Wampler, John Morris, 1830-1863; Confederate States of America. Army. Corps of Engineers -- Biography; Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee -- Biography; Military engineers -- Confederate States of America -- Biography; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Engineering and construction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Transportation
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Compared with generals or even foot soldiers, relatively little is known about the role played by engineers during the Civil War. This first study of Confederate engineering in more than forty years combines biography with a comprehensive overview of the profession to present the life and accomplishments of one talented individual.".

"John Morris Wampler was a topographical engineer in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States and eventually became chief engineer of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Based on extensive use of Wampler's unpublished correspondence and journals, the biography follows his experiences before hostilities and then during the war in both major theaters. It also draws on the writings of his wife, Kate, to show how she struggled to hold their family together during the fighting.

The combination of both the husband and wife's perspectives on the war makes this treatment unique."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-328) and index.
"Published in cooperation with the United States Civil War Center"--Verso t.p.