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Civil War Engineers
Engineers and Mechanics
The other eight companies were occupied during the month in moving, with the army, from Shiloh, to the front at Corinth, being employed in the meantime in building corduroy roads and placing siege guns in position.
On the 1st of June these companies started from Corinth, marching toward. Decatur, Alabama, on the line of the Mississippi and Charleston railroad, making repairs as they advanced, building bridges and trestles at various points, and during the month had made a total length of about 3, 000 feet, varying from 56 to 12 feet in height; that on Bear creek being erected in 16 feet of water.
Civil War Mechanics
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