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Montgomery Cunningham Meigs ( / ˈmɛɡz /; May 3, 1816 – January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer and military and civil engineer, who served as Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War. Although a Southerner from Georgia, Meigs strongly opposed secession and supported the Union.
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (January 11, 1945 – July 6, 2021) was a United States Army general. He was named for his great-great-great-granduncle, Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs , the father of Arlington National Cemetery , and for his father Lieutenant Colonel Montgomery Meigs , a World War II tank commander who was killed in ...
Montgomery C. Meigs (born May 3, 1816, Augusta, Ga., U.S.—died Jan. 2, 1892, Washington, D.C.) was a U.S. engineer and architect, who, as quartermaster general of the Union Army during the American Civil War, was responsible for the purchase and distribution of vital supplies to Union troops.
Captain Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (May 3, 1816 – January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, construction engineer, and Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War.
Jul 13, 2021 · Montgomery C. Meigs, a four-star Army general who commanded a U.S. European military force of 60,000 from 1998 to 2002 and oversaw NATO peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia, died July 6 at his...
A chronology of key events in the life of Montgomery C. Meigs (1816-1892), army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist.
Jul 29, 2021 · Montgomery C. Meigs, a retired four-star general who commanded U.S. Army forces in Europe and served as the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy at the Maxwell School, died on July 6, 2021, in Austin, Texas. He was 76.
Jul 9, 2021 · STUTTGART, Germany — Retired Gen. Montgomery Meigs, a combat veteran who commanded the Army in Europe for four years and hailed from a storied line of military officers, died Tuesday in Texas....
The papers of army officer, engineer, architect, and scientist Montgomery C. Meigs (1816-1892) consist of 11,000 items (42,508 images), most of which were digitized from 51 reels of previously produced microfilm.
Much like George C. Marshall’s untrumpeted contributions to victory in the Second World War, Montgomery C. Meigs is a name often mentioned in American military history without a detailed understanding of why he deserves to rank alongside great Civil War battlefield commanders like Ulysses S. Grant or William T. Sherman.
