Text Appearing Before Image: WAITING FOR THE MARCH TO THE SEA After the capture of Atlanta, says Sherman, all the army, oflBcers and men, seemed to relax more or less and sink into a conditionof idleness. All but the engineers! For it was their task to construct the new lines of fortifications surveyed by General Foe sothat the city could be held by a small force while troops were detached in pursuit of Hood. The railroad lines and bridges along theroute by which the army had come had to be repaired so that the sick and wounded and prisoners could be sent back to Chattanoogaand the army left free of encumbrances before undertaking the march to the sea. In the picture, their work practically done, the menof the First Michigan Engineers are idling about the old salient of the Confederate lines southeast of Atlanta near which their camp Text Appearing After Image: COP>RlGnr, 1911, REVIEW OF REvlEAS CO. CAMP OF THE FIRST MICHIGAN ENGINEERS AT ATLANTA, AUTUMN, 1864 was pitched. The organization was the best known and one of the most efficient of the Michigan regiments. It was composed almostentirely of mechanics and trained engineers and mustered eighteen hundred strong. The work of these men dotted the whole theaterof war in the ^Yest. The bridges and trestles of their making, if combined, would have to be measured by the mile, and many of themwere among the most wonderful feats of military engineering. The First Michigan Engineers could fight, too, for a detachment ofthem under Colonel Innes at Stones River successfully defended the army trains from an attack by \Nheelers cavalry. The marchto the sea could not have been made without these men.(cl
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