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To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington - The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument (Paperback)
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To the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington - The United States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington Monument (Paperback)
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The Washington Monument is one of the most easily recognized
structures in America, if not the world, yet the long and tortuous
history of its construction is much less well known. Beginning with
its sponsorship by the Washington National Monument Society and the
grudging support of a largely indifferent Congress, the Monument's
1848 groundbreaking led only to a truncated obelisk, beset by
attacks by the Know Nothing Party and lack of secured funding and,
from the mid-1850s, to a twenty-year interregnum. It was only 1n
1876 that a Joint Commission of Congress revived the Monument and
entrusted its completion to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.In "To
the Immortal Name and Memory of George Washington": The United
States Corps of Engineers and the Construction of the Washington
Monument, historian Louis Torres tells the fascinating story of the
Monument, with a particular focus on the efforts of Lieutenant
Colonel Thomas Lincoln Casey, Captain George W. Davis, and civilian
Corps employee Bernard Richardson Green and the details of how they
completed the construction of this great American landmark. The
book also includes a discussion and images of the various designs,
some of them incredibly elaborate compared to the austere
simplicity of the original, and an account of Corps stewardship of
the Monument up to its takeover by the National Park Service in
1933. First published in 1985. 148 pages, ill.
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