Lee Lee... Tames the Mississippi River...

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If Robert E. Lee had not had a magnificent military career, we would know him as the man who "Tamed the Mississippi river". In 1837, Lee was sent to St. Louis saves the Mississippi for shipping. The river was clogging up around ST. Louis and Lee and his team were there to save the day...

Robert E. Lee Served for 26 Years as an Officer. Robert E.Lee was a United States Army engineer officer from 1829 to 1855. ... His assistant engineer at St. Louis was Lieutenant Montgomery Meigs, later Union quartermaster general in the Civil War.

Here is a good detail of how Lee tamed the Mississippi river...
http://leefamilyarchive.org/reference/essays/britton/index.html

Here is another link of what he did ...
https://www.annmarieackermann.com/robert-e-lee-engineer-hero-midwest/

Here another link...
http://www.usace.army.mil/About/His...ilitary-Construction-Combat/033-Robert-E-Lee/




 
If Robert E. Lee had not had a magnificent military career, we would know him as the man who "Tamed the Mississippi river". In 1837, Lee was sent to St. Louis saves the Mississippi for shipping. The river was clogging up around ST. Louis and Lee and his team were there to save the day...

Robert E. Lee Served for 26 Years as an Officer. Robert E.Lee was a United States Army engineer officer from 1829 to 1855. ... His assistant engineer at St. Louis was Lieutenant Montgomery Meigs, later Union quartermaster general in the Civil War.

Here is a good detail of how Lee tamed the Mississippi river...
http://leefamilyarchive.org/reference/essays/britton/index.html

Here is another link of what he did ...
https://www.annmarieackermann.com/robert-e-lee-engineer-hero-midwest/

Here another link...
http://www.usace.army.mil/About/His...ilitary-Construction-Combat/033-Robert-E-Lee/



Nice links.
 
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