. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BRIGADIER-GENERAL DANVILLE LEADBETTEU MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. (ilLMEK CONFEDERATE ENGINEERS \\HO MADE THEIR j\L4RK WTien it is realized that few of tlie ofScers in theConfederate Engineers Corps had any pre\iouspractice as mihtary engineers, althougli someof them had been edu-cated at mihtary acad-emies, and that no en-gineer troops were pro-vided for by the Con-federate Congress until1863, the work accom-phshed by the Confed-erate engineers seems aUthe more Confederate coast-^nse defenses werestrengthened in a waythat ba
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . BRIGADIER-GENERAL DANVILLE LEADBETTEU MAJOR-GENERAL J. F. (ilLMEK CONFEDERATE ENGINEERS \\HO MADE THEIR j\L4RK WTien it is realized that few of tlie ofScers in theConfederate Engineers Corps had any pre\iouspractice as mihtary engineers, althougli someof them had been edu-cated at mihtary acad-emies, and that no en-gineer troops were pro-vided for by the Con-federate Congress until1863, the work accom-phshed by the Confed-erate engineers seems aUthe more Confederate coast-^nse defenses werestrengthened in a waythat baffled the blockad-mg 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. Corps of Engineers March 16, 1861. Hewas made colonel the follo\\-ing year, andbrigadier-general August 28, 1864. He waschief engineer of theArmy of Northern Vir-ginia before Petersburg,and surrendered at 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 1863. Durmg most ofhis ser\ace he was chiefWALTER H. STEVENS of the engineer bureau. ®l|p (!lflufi>b0rat^ iEnrjtuf^ra
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