1SGDan
Major
- Joined
- Dec 13, 2009
- Location
- New Hampshire
I assume you've read Thompson's 1910 paper for the Army's Engineering School on The Engineer Battalion in the Civil War? It's a good overview and I've correlated the diaries to it. Of course, there were the two State volunteer units, as well.
Actually there were three in the east, all from New York, the 15th, 50th and 1st, The 1st was reintroduced to the virginia campaign when a portion of the unit was reassigned from the south when emphasis on that theater waned. 8 companies were sent to the Army of the James during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign. Eventually those engineers may have been involved in the bridging of the james