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Invitation to “The Generals Birthday Dinner” honoring Robert E. Lee, Daniel M. Frost,
Stonewall Jackson, Joseph Shelby, Mathew F. Maury, and Sterling Price, sponsored by
Confederate Dames Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and Sterling Price Camp,
Sons of Confederate Veterans. Includes reply card and envelope addressed to Mrs. Don Stanley
Schomburg, 52 Brookmill Lane, Chesterfield, Missouri.
Cite as: United Daughters of the Confederacy–Sons of Union Veterans Invitation, Missouri
History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2515
United Railways Company of St. Louis, Midland Line.
Special commutation ticket booklet, no date. 1 item
Booklet sold to Irene McElhinney. The tickets in the booklet are good for one fare (either
way) between the St. Louis city limits and the St. Louis and Colorado Railroad Co. tracks.
Cite as: United Railways Company of St. Louis, Midland Line, Special Commutation Ticket
Booklet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
United States. Army. Army of the Southwest.
Reports on the Battle of Pea Ridge, 1862-1864. 1 volume
Transferred to Civil War Collection (see Samuel R. Curtis record book).
A1669
United States. Army. Corps of Topographical Engineers.
Stephen H. Long record books, 1843-1862. 9 volumes
The Corps of Topographical Engineers was created during the War of 1812 to plot military
positions and collect data in the field with the army. Later its function was expanded to include
western surveys. In 1818, the corps was made a bureau under the jurisdiction of the Corps of
Engineers, and in 1838 it was made coequal with other divisions of the army. The corps was deestablished
in March 1863. Stephen Harriman Long (1784-1864) was born in Hopkinton, New
Hampshire, the second child and eldest son of the thirteen surviving children of Lucy Harriman
and Moses Long, a farmer, cooper, and Revolutionary War soldier. The younger Long graduated
from Dartmouth in 1809 at the age of 25 with a classical education. In 1814, he was
commissioned a second lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. In 1816, he was then commissioned
a brevet major with the Topographical Engineers. Long is best known for his "northern
expeditions" to examine the portages of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers (1817) and to examine the
sources of the St. Peter's River in Minnesota (1823). He also explored the Upper Mississippi and
the Rocky Mountains. In 1827, he was named brevet lieutenant colonel and bureau chief with the
Corps of Topographical Engineers, and then colonel in 1861. Long remained in this position
until the corps was de-established in March 1863. Shortly thereafter he retired to Alton, Illinois,
where he died in 1864 at the age of 79.
This collection consists of Stephen H. Long's nine record books made in his capacity as a
bureau chief with the Corps of Topographical Engineers between 1843 and 1862. These volumes
include orders and instructions, reports, correspondence, and accounts relating to the
improvement of western rivers, the removal of obstructions from the mouth of the Mississippi
River, and the construction of U.S. marine hospitals at Louisville and Paducah, Kentucky;
Napoleon, Indiana [?]; and Natchez, Mississippi. The latest records also include brief reference
to the early role of the Corps of Topographical Engineers in supporting the federal forces at the
beginning of the Civil War. (Books from Stephen H. Long's personal library are in the
Association Collection--Long, Stephen H., Missouri History Museum Library.)