Letterbooks, January 1893-September 1913.

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Letterbooks, January 1893-September 1913.

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Copies of outgoing correspondence from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers staff are addressed to fellow Corps employees, local officials, attorneys, landowners and construction and supply companies. Subjects include land acquisition, freight charges, contracts, laborers, supply and equipment purchases, payrolls, inventories, cost estimates, appropriations, inspections, specifications, railroad and highway bridges, drainage, aqueducts, dams, coal supplies, dynamite use, severe weather, hunting licenses, boat leases, lock elevations, Corps personnel, work hours, guage readings, lakes and reservoirs and conditions of equipment.

Letterbooks 97 volumes.

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United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...