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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Norfolk. (search)
rett, of the Confederate States Navy, and their officers, made the most efficient possible preparations for the desperate defence of that position in extremity; and in this connection, I regret my inability to mention the names of those patriotic gentlemen of Virginia, by the gratuitous labor of whose slaves the entrenched camp a Manassas had been mainly constructed, relieving the troops from that laborious service, and giving opportunity for their military instruction. Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Williamson, the engineer of those works, assisted by Captain D. B. Harris, discharged his duties with untiring energy and devotion, as well as satisfactory skill. Captain W. H. Stevens, Engineer Confederate Army served with the advanced forces at Fairfax Court House for some time before the battle; he laid out the works there, in admirable accordance with the purposes for which they were designed, and yet so as to admit of ultimate extension and adaption to more serious uses as me