Joseph Hancock Taylor, who was the son of Union Army Brigadier General Joseph Pannell Taylor, and nephew of President Zachary Taylor Charles Delucena Meigs (1845–1853), who was named for Meigs' father Montgomery Meigs (1847–1931), a civil engineer who enjoyed a long career in railroad, bridge, canal, power plant, and road construction Vincent Trowbridge Meigs (1851–1853) Louisa Rodgers Meigs (1854–1922), the wife of British journalist Archibald Forbes Honors General Meigs was inducted into the Quartermaster Hall of Fame in its charter year of 1986. In 2012, the Georgia Historical Society erected a historical marker at the birthplace of Gen. Montgomery C. Meigs in Augusta, Georgia. Camp Meigs, in Readville, Massachusetts was named after him. Ships General Meigs, a Quartermaster Corps passenger and freight steamer built in 1892 and serving in the early 20th century. , an Army transport ship sunk at Darwin, Northern Territory. , a troop transport launched in 1944, serving in WWII and Korea. See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) References Bibliography Atkinson, Rick. Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2007. Bednar, Michael J. L' Enfant's Legacy: Public Open Spaces in Washington, D.C. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Browning, Charles Henry. Americans of Royal Descent. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing, 1911. Cultural Landscape Program. Arlington House: The Robert E. Lee Memorial Cultural Landscape Report. National Capital Region. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Washington, D.C.: 2001. Dickinson, William C. and Dean A. Herrin. Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation's Capital (2002) East, Sherrod E. "Montgomery C. Meigs and the Quartermaster Department." Military Affairs (1961): 183–196. [ in JSTOR] Eicher, John H. and Eicher, David J. Civil War High Commands. Palo Alto, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2001, . Farwell, Byron. The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Land Warfare. New York: Norton, 2001. Field, Cynthia R. "A Rich Repast of Classicism: Meigs and Classical Sources." In Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation's Capital. William C Dickinson, Dean A Herrin, and Donald R Kennon, eds. Athens, Ohio: United States Capitol Historical Society, 2001. Freeman, Douglas S. R. E. Lee, A Biography. 4 vol. New York: Scribners, 1934. Hannan, Caryn, ed. Georgia Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. Hamburg, Mich.: State History Publications, 2008. Herrin, Dean A. "The Eclectic Engineer: Montgomery C. Meigs and His Engineering Projects." In Montgomery C. Meigs and the Building of the Nation's Capital. William C