The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of dredging two channels; one from Perdido Bay through the inlet into Soldier Creek, and another from Perdido Bay through the inlet into Palmetto Creek. The channel dredging and maintenance of both channels were found not to be economically justified. Therefore, it was concluded that the study be terminated, and that no further studies are warranted at this time. Palmetto and Soldier Creeks are both tidal streams located in Baldwin County, Alabama, on the West Bank of Perdido Bay. The creeks flow south into Perdido Bay about six miles north of Perdido Pass. Perdido Pass connects Perdido Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. The study area is located about 18 miles west of Pensacola, Florida and 55 miles southeast of Mobile, Alabama. Keywords: Small craft navigation, Army Corps of Engineers.

This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.

Describes the society and the institutions that went down during the Civil War and Reconstruction and the internal conditions of Alabama during the war. Emphasizes the social and economic problems in the general situation, as well as the educational, religious, and industrial aspects of the period.