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Meigs, Montgomery C

soldier, civil engineer, was born May 3, 1816, in Augusta, Ga. He studied at the university of Pennsylvania, and graduated from the United States Military academy in 1836. He received an appointment in the artillery, but was transferred to the corps of engineering. He took a part in building Fort Delaware, in the improvement in the Delaware river and Delaware bay, and in the construction of Forts Wayne, Porter, Niagara and Ontario. He superintended the building of the new wings and iron dome of the capitol extension, the extension of the postoffice department building, and the completion of Fort Madison in Annapolis. In 1861 he was made quartermaster-general of the United States army, with the rank of brigadier-general; and he continued to hold that office until his retirement from active service in 1882.

No man did more or better service during the civil war than Gen. Meigs. He died Jan. 2, 1892, in Washington, D. C.