. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ses against thethen inevitable invasion of the State. [ 256 ] ^1 ^^^^ ^^^^^ ► H W*I ft Jvtw V I fk ■■ ^ ■^^|^L JB H I ^b9 d / WrP^ JB^ -y BRIGADIER-GENERAL DANVILLE leadbettek MAJOR-GENERAL J. P. GILMER CONFEDERATE ENGINEERS WHO MADE THEIR MARK When it is realized that few of the officers in the Corps of Engineers March 16, 1801. lie Confederate Engineers Corps had any previous was made colonel the following year, and practice as military engineers, although some brig
. The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities . ses against thethen inevitable invasion of the State. [ 256 ] ^1 ^^^^ ^^^^^ ► H W*I ft Jvtw V I fk ■■ ^ ■^^|^L JB H I ^b9 d / WrP^ JB^ -y BRIGADIER-GENERAL DANVILLE leadbettek MAJOR-GENERAL J. P. GILMER CONFEDERATE ENGINEERS WHO MADE THEIR MARK When it is realized that few of the officers in the Corps of Engineers March 16, 1801. lie Confederate Engineers Corps had any previous was made colonel the following year, and practice as military engineers, although some brigadier-general August 28, 1804. He was of them had been edu-cated at military acad-emies, and that no en-gineer troops were pro-vided for by the Con-federate Congress until1863, the work accom-plished by the Confed-erate engineers seems allthe more Confederate coast-wise defenses werestrengthened in a waythat baffled the blockad-ing fleet, and no two ar-mies have ever been en-trenched in the field aswere the armies of theSouth and North beforePetersburg. Walter became majorin the Confederate. BRIGADIER-GENERAL WALTER II. BTEVENS chief engineer of theArmy of Northern Vir-ginia before Petersburg,and surrendered at Ap-pomattox. DanvilleLeadbetter also becamea major in the EngineerCorps March 16, was a brigadier-gen-eral of the ProvisionalArmy of the Confed-erate States February27, 1861. J. F. Gilmerwas lieutenant-colonelof the Engineer Corpsin 1861. He becamebrigadier-general in theConfederate army in1862,and major-generalin 186S. During must ofhis service he was chiefof the engineer bureau.
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