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William Louis Marshall (June 11 1846 - July 2, 1920) was born in Washington, Kentucky, a scion of the family of Chief Justice John Marshall. At age 16 he
enlisted in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry, Union Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1868 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. Accompanying
Lieutenant George Wheeler's Survey expedition (1872–76), Marshall covered thousands of miles on foot and horseback and discovered Marshall Pass in central Colorado. He
over saw improvements on the Lower Mississippi River near Vicksburg and on the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway canal system in Wisconsin. As Chicago District Engineer from 1888 to
1899, he planned and began to build the Illinois and Mississippi Canal. Marshall made innovative use of concrete masonry and developed original and cost-saving methods of
canal lock construction. Stationed at New York (1900–08), his genius further expressed itself on the Ambrose Channel project and in standardizing fortification
construction methods. He retired June 11, 1910—the final Chief of Engineers to have served in the Civil War—but his engineering reputation earned a special appointment
from President William Howard Taft as consulting engineer to the Secretary of the Interior on hydroelectric power projects. General Marshall died July 2, 1920, in
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Launching of US Army Hopper Dredge William L. Marshall, 30 November 1923 at Sun Shipbuilding, Chester, PA. |
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US Army Hopper Dredge William L. Marshall, moored pierside in a shipyard, date and location unknown. |
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USED William L. Marshall underway, date and location unknown.
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