Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892
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United States engineer and architect, Meigs served in the Army Corps of Engineers as supervising architect of the United States Capitol from 1853 to 1861, during which time the building was expanded with wings and the central dome was designed and constructed.
American army officer.
Montgomery C. Meigs was an army officer and engineer. He was born in Augusta, Ga. on May 3, 1816. Meigs graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1836, where he studied civil and military engineering. Meigs was engaged in several federal engineering and surveying projects from 1836 to 1851. Between 1852 and 1860, he was supervising engineer for the Washington Aqueduct and for the U.S. Capitol dome and wings. Meigs served as a brigadier general during the Civil War and participated in the battles of Bull Run and Chattanooga. After the war, he supervised plans for the War Department Building. In a private capacity, Meigs designed his own house, a plan for the National Museum Building of the Smithsonian, and the Pension Building. Meigs married Louisa Rodgers in 1847; they had seven children. Meigs was a regent of the Smithsonian, member of the American Philosophical Society, and an early member of the National Academy of Science. He died in Washington, D.C. on January 2, 1892 and was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery.
West Point graduate and the Union Army's quartermaster general, dispatching men and equipment to the scattered battlefields of the war. His understanding of the north's overwhelming superiority in manpower and resources led Lincoln to make Meigs one of his principal military advisers. As a military engineer Meigs had already built the stone aqueduct that provided Washington with pure water and supervised construction of the Capitol's cast-iron dome. His son, John Rodgers Meigs also a West Point graduate, was killed in 1864 in the Shenandoah Valley and buried at Arlington Cemetery, which his father was instrumental in creating. Meigs was buried next to his son at Arlington.
Engineer and army officer.
Army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist.
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