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Mission Statement
The 4th Engineer Battalion, "Vanguard," was originally organized on 31 December, 1861 in the Regular Army at Washington, Distric of Columbia, from new and existing companies of engineers as a provisional engineer battalion. During the American Civil War it saw action in numerous campaigns including: Peninsula, Antietam, Fredricksburg, Chancellorsville, Virginia 1863, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg and Appomattox. The unit was only formally constituted on 28 July 1866 as the Battalion of Engineers.
The Battalion was expanded between 14 March and 7 June 1901 to form the 1st and 2nd Battalions of Engineers, with the 1st Battalion of Engineers thereafter having a separate lineage. The 2nd Battalion of Engineers subsequently went on to fight in the War with Spain and the Philippine Insurrection.
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