. "William Louis Marshall (June 11, 1846, in Washington, Kentucky \u2013 July 2, 1920) was an influential figure in the US Corps of Engineers. At age 16 Marshall 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 Wheeler Survey expedition (1872\u201376), Marshall covered thousands of miles on foot and horseback and discovered Marshall Pass in central Colorado. He oversaw improvements on the Lower Mississippi River near Vicksburg and on the Fox\u2013Wisconsin 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\u201308), he directed the Ambrose Channel project and the standardizing of fortification construction methods. He retired June 11, 1910\u2014the final Chief of Engineers to have served in the Civil War\u2014but 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 Washington, D.C."@en . . . . "William Louis Marshall"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Signature of William Louis Marshall.png"@en . . . . "1862"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "3412"^^ . . . . . "1863"^^ . "1078520379"^^ . . . . . . "William Louis Marshall"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Chief of Engineers" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1920-07-02"^^ . . . . "United States of America" . . . . "Place of burial"@en . "1862"^^ . . . "1846-06-11"^^ . . . . "William Louis Marshall, Chief of Engineers 1908\u20131910"@en . "1908"^^ . . . "2532296"^^ . . . . . . . . "William Louis Marshall (June 11, 1846, in Washington, Kentucky \u2013 July 2, 1920) was an influential figure in the US Corps of Engineers. At age 16 Marshall 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 Wheeler Survey expedition (1872\u201376), Marshall covered thousands of miles on foot and horseback and discovered Marshall Pass in central Colorado. He oversaw improvements on the Lower Mississippi River near Vicksburg and on the Fox\u2013Wisconsin 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 de"@en . . . . . . . . "William Louis Marshall"@en . . .