A Bibliography
After the war, the Corps of Engineers completed some of the batteries begun in wartime, halting
construction in 1948. The country, however, scrapped most of the coast defense guns by
and
the
discontinued the last of the harbor defense commands in 1950. In that same year, the Coast
Artillery Corps disappeared, consolidated with the Field Artillery into an Artillery branch. Coastal
fortifications had no place in the missile
Notes
l.For a fuller treatment of the history of coastal fortifications in the United States, including a
great amount of information pertaining to the Corps of Engineers' role, see Emanuel Raymond
History (Washington, DC:
Lewis, Seacoast
of the
States: An
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970).
Walker, Engineers of
A Documentary History of the Army Engineers in
the American
783 (Washington, DC: The Government Printing
1, 5, 34-36, 327-33; Henry Larcom Abbot, "The Corps of Engineers," Journal of the Military
Service Institution of the United States 15 (March
4 15; "Engineers Celebrate 200th
Birthday," Assembly 37 (June
23; U.S. Congress, American State Papers, Military Affairs
1832-61) I; 134-35,
142-44 and II; 243; U.S.,
(Washington, DC: Gales and
for the Government of the
States Engineer Department
Engineer Department,
(Washington, DC: Jacob Gideon, Jr.,
1.
of the
C. Bush, The Development of Submarine Mines and Torpedoes,
Service Institution of the United States11 (March
Walker, Engineers of
Independence, 19-20, 133-34, 147-52,
Henry P. Johnston, "Sergeant Lee's
Experiences with Bushnell's Submarine Torpedo in 1776," The Magazine of American History 29
History of the General
(March
262-66; Raphael P.
compiler,
the Army of the
States (Washington, DC: The Government Printing
485,
The River
of the
War (Hartford, CT:
490; Charles Rufus
Society of Civil Engineers, Inc., 1946).
Seacoast
14-17; Willard B. Robinson, American Forts: Architectural
Form and
(Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,
13-49; John R.
The
"Fortifications in America: Application in the New World,"
of the
on America Military Past 6 (Spring
1 O-l 8; John R.
"Fortifications in
America: Intention and Reality," Periodical: The
of the Council on America's
Past 6 (Fall
23-30.
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