. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . to the loss of records pertaining to thisbranch of the Confederate military service. The following,tlierefore, must be considered merely a reminiscence of the CivilWhy preserved in the memory of an individual participant inthe events of the four years, from April, 1861, to April, to April, 1861, the State of Virginia maintained thehojje that A\ise counsels would prevail, and urged forbearance;but mindful of the old adage, In time of peace prepare for^^■a^, an appropriation was made for river, coast, and harbordefenses, a
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . to the loss of records pertaining to thisbranch of the Confederate military service. The following,tlierefore, must be considered merely a reminiscence of the CivilWhy preserved in the memory of an individual participant inthe events of the four years, from April, 1861, to April, to April, 1861, the State of Virginia maintained thehojje that A\ise counsels would prevail, and urged forbearance;but mindful of the old adage, In time of peace prepare for^^■a^, an appropriation was made for river, coast, and harbordefenses, and the services of a competent military engineerwere secured to plan and superintend the work. Thus it hap-pened tliat, when the Ordinance of Secession was passed by theConstitutional convention of the State of Virginia, on the 16thof April, 1861, in answer to Lincolns call for her quota of theseventy-five thousand troops, no time was lost in organizinga State corps of engineers to prepare defenses against thethen inevitable invasion of the State. [ 23G ]. 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
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