His father, an Army engineer, kept the family on the move.
The evidence from the site shows advanced technology probably under the control of army engineers.
Army engineers were also sent to begin the cleanup of the area.
These army engineers could throw a bridge across a river in half a day.
However, Army engineers were still interested in the southern approaches to the city.
Army engineers are normally the guys who put in major defenses.
As an army engineer, he was made Major General in 1851.
That autumn, the troops left and Army engineers were brought in to improve the public works.
But, he had to wait to cross the river until the army engineers constructed a bridge.
Joseph enlisted to serve in the military and was sent to Europe as an army engineer at the end of 1917.