Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Montgomery Cunningham Meigs
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    4
    Family
    Charles Meigs (father), Mary Montgomery (mother), Louisa Rodgers (wife, 1841), John Rodgers Meigs (son)
    Education
    University of Pennsylvania
    West Point (US Military Academy)
    Occupation
    Military
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Union Army

    Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    Meigs was an irascible man who spent forty-six years in the service of his country. He was a talented architect and engineer, but his tenure as quartermaster general was perhaps more significant as it ushered in a new age of modern military bureaucracy. Meigs's appetite for staff work, insistence on departmental honesty, and attention to the minutiae of supplying troops in the field rendered him one of the most effective administrators of U.S. Army history. His unsung efforts certainly facilitated the eventual Union victory. His eldest son, John Rodgers Meigs, was a talented Union officer who was allegedly murdered by Confederate partisans while scouting the Shenandoah Valley on 3 October 1864. His commanding officer, General Philip Sheridan, was so outraged that he burned all houses and farms within five miles of the place of his death.
    John C. Fredriksen, "Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00518.html.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    “Meticulous Mr. Meigs.” American History Illustrated 15, no. 7 (1980): 34-37 view record
    Weigley, Russell F. “Montgomery Meigs.” Civil War Times 3, no. 7 (1964): 42-48. view record
    Weigley, Russell F. Quartermaster General of the Union Army. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6249.