Thursday, February 2, 2012

1862 February 2 Richmond, Va.

Confederate States of America
War Department
Engineer Bureau
Richmond, Va., February 2, 1862

Dear Rives, [Alfred Landon Rives]
Please make requisition
for twenty hands with an overseer to
cut piles for obstruction--I have obtained
a lighter and the pile driver will
be up in a few days.

The ordnance should be supplied
for Dutch Gap at once.

There are some idle vessels in the
dock and it has been suggested to
me by a prominent citizen that they
might be towed down to the Gap ready
for scuttling if the enemy should
approach before the piles & cribs[?] are
down. What do you think of this
and can you get the authority--

I want authority also for to
take a wch[?] breaker which can
very easily be converted into a

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pile driver, now lying at Rocketts
and in the hands of Mr. Niles as
property requistrated.

Yours as ever
[Abram C.] Myers

Colonel Alfred Landon Rives,1830–1903, of Castle Hill, Albemarle County, Va., served as chief of engineers to General Robert E. Lee

Abraham C. Myers, 1811-1889, the first quartermaster-general of the Confederate States


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