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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
abor, thus relieving the Confederate Government of the expense of their maintenance. Two or three thousand men would do an immense amount of work in the course of the war. Some might be put to quarrying granite, others to excavating, filling and graduating the roads, others to making bricks. The only very costly parts of the work would be the two bridges connecting above and below the city with the redoubts on the Manchester side; but these bridges would be more than paid for by bringing Manchester and Richmond together as one city, as they would, of course, become under the influence of two free bridges. We do not know any enterprise in which the corporation of Richmond could now engage that would promise or, effect more for the rapid growth and future greatness of the city. At conspicuous points where the boulevards would form angles, granite moments and arches might be placed, commemorative of distinguished events in our second war of Independence. These might be called the