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The Daily Dispatch: July 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern Boasting. (search)
who are sufficiently interested to sift the matter, will find that the "magnificent piece of masonry" eulogized above, owes its planning and execution mainly to the skill and perseverance of a Southern engineer, Mr. Alfred L. Rives, (son of Hon. Wm. C. Rives,) now Captain in Corps of Engineers in the Confederate Army. In his thorough training in the highest scientific schools of France, Capt. Rives learned some things which Northerners do not understand — among them, that true genius does not Corps of Engineers in the Confederate Army. In his thorough training in the highest scientific schools of France, Capt. Rives learned some things which Northerners do not understand — among them, that true genius does not desire to deck itself in borrowed feathers. The roars beneath the lion's skin at Washington have been so loud in all quarters, that the long ears of the chief animal are hardly yet developed to European eyes; but the jackdaw they sometimes detect beneath their own plumag