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At the age of thirty-six, in 1852, Lt. Montgomery Cunningham Meigs of the Army Corps of Engineers reported to Washington, D.C., for duty as a special assistant to the chief army engineer, Gen. Joseph G. Totten. It was a fateful assignment, both for the nation's capital and for the bright, ambitious, and politically connected West Point graduate.Dickinson, William C. is the author of 'Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation's Capital' with ISBN 9780821413975 and ISBN 082141397X.
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