1st Battalion, Engineer Regiment of the West [Missouri]

Regimental Monument

NPS Photo

Multiple monument located on Grant Avenue near Grant Circle.

This unit was attached to Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee, and commanded by Col. Josiah Bissell, Maj. William Tweeddale and Maj. Henry Flad. [Refer to pages 743 and 751, Volume 6 of the WPA Monumentation Books, and Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume I, page 472.]