Joseph Gilbert Totten fought in the War of 1812, served as Chief of Engineers and was regent of the Smithsonian Institution and cofounder of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1836, he was elected a
Joseph Gilbert Totten
Brief Observations On Common Mortars, Hydraulic Mortars, and Concretes
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer. He served as a Union general in the American Civil War and was fatally wounded at the Battle of Antietam.
Joseph Gilbert Totten
…in March 1806 to assist his uncle, Major Jared Mansfield, who was then serving as Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory. He was a cousin of Joseph K. Mansfield, who rose to the rank of major general and died at the Battle of Antietam. Totten re-entered the Corps of Engineers in February 1808 and helped build…
Maj. Gen. Joseph K. Mansfield, photograph by Mathew Brady
Mansfield's house in Middletown, Connecticut, built by his father-in-law in 1810. Now the home of the Middlesex County Historical Society.
Monument to Joseph K. Mansfield, Antietam National Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD, October 2011
In 1880, the $500 United States Note featured a portrait of General Mansfield, killed in the Battle of Antietam of the American Civil War.