The Eads Bridge

http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ibex/archive/guidebook/EadsBridge.htm

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http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/vignettes/vignette_33.htm

Officer in the Corps of Engineers

Lee went to the Chief of Engineers Office as administrative assistant in 1834 and to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1837 as supervising engineer of navigation work on the Mississippi River.

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