A Society of American Military Engineers

On Apr 6, 1917, when the existence of a state of war with Germany was formally declared, the engineers available for immediate military service consisted of 256 officers and 2,228 soldiers. In Nov, nineteen months later, there were in the Engineering Department of the US service 10,886 engineer officers and 292,300 soldiers. The engineers of the country bore well their part and when the final record is written no page will be more brilliant than that which chronicles their achievements. There is, therefore, a pronounced need for a society or an association of American Military Engineers, the reasons for its existence are primarily of a professional and patriotic nature and secondarily, only, of a social or sentimental character. (Reprint 1920)