The U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers was a branch of the United States Army authorized on 4 July 1838. It consisted only of officers who were handpicked from West Point and was used for mapp
The headquarters for the Corps of Topographical Engineers, ca. 1860-1865
Topographical Engineers at work during the Yorktown campaign, May 1862.
John Parke
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John Grubb Parke was a United States Army engineer and a Union general in the American Civil War. Parke's Civil War service was closely associated with Ambrose E. Burnside, often serving him as chief
State historical marker erected outside Coatesville, PA, in 1968