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Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Unabridged — 8 hours, 50 minutes

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Born to a well to do, connected family in 1816, Montgomery C. Meigs graduated from West Point as an engineer. He helped build America's forts and served under Lt. Robert E. Lee to make navigation improvements on the Mississippi River. As a young man, he designed the Washington aqueducts in a city where people were dying from contaminated water. He built the spectacular wings and the massive dome of the brand new US Capitol.

Introduced to President Lincoln by Secretary of State William Seward...

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The Quartermaster: Montgomery C. Meigs, Lincoln's General, Master Builder of the Union Army