Thanks Emmanuel,

I thought that VMI figured prominently in producing engineers before The
WAR, althnough they had been in business only a few years.

Randy Cabell
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From: "Emmanuel Dabney" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [VA-HIST] Engineers in the antebellum south


>I looked up today in the 1860 census and found that Thomas H. Williamson
> was the professor of engineering at VMI. He was born in Virginia in 1813
> and died in 1888. He served during the war on the staff of Stonewall
> Jackson and he penned his memoirs a few years before his death.
>
> More can be found on Williamson at:
> http://www.vmi.edu/archives/Manuscripts/00105/ms105bio.asp
>
> His memoirs:
> http://www.vmi.edu/archives/Manuscripts/00105/ms105.asp
>
> He published in 1849 "An Elementary Course in Architecture and Civil
> Engineering." Student drawings from VMI can be found at:
> http://www.vmi.edu/archives/Manuscripts/00203/ms00203.asp
>
> Sincerely,
> Emmanuel Dabney
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