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    Very exciting/interesting drawings from VMI

    I found this today when posting to another listserv about engineering in the antebellum South.

    Thomas H. Williamson (Professor of Engineering for 47 years) taught these students whose drawings can be found here: http://www.vmi.edu/archives/Manuscri...03/ms00203.asp. Williamson also served on Jackson's staff during the war.
    Sincerely,
    Emmanuel Dabney
    Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
    http://www.agsas.org

    "God hasten the day when war shall cease, when slavery shall be blotted from the face of the earth, and when, instead of destruction and desolation, peace, prosperity, liberty, and virtue shall rule the earth!"--John C. Brock, Commissary Sergeant, 43d United States Colored Troops
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    Re: Very exciting/interesting drawings from VMI

    Those are wonderful! I really admire the careful "presentation" of each drawing... very illustrative of careful students showing their work clearly, but with a high level of artistry for even simple, "everyday" subjects.

    I'm particularly taken with the Farm Scene in Winter, and the little fellow making a toast in the middle of an otherwise very serious excercise.

    Thanks for finding this, Mr Dabney! It's bookmarked for me.
    Regards,
    Elizabeth Clark

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    • #3
      Re: Very exciting/interesting drawings from VMI

      Those are wonderful drawings. The care and precsion in them are refreshing. It hearkens to an era when personal pride was instilled in the educational system.

      Lawrence Underwood
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      Lawrence Underwood, Jr.
      Mobile, AL

      21st Alabama Infantry Reg. Co. D
      Mobile Battle Guards

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        Re: Very exciting/interesting drawings from VMI

        As a recent Alumnus from the Institute, I can vividly remember seeing many of these drawings on display in VMI's Preston Library and in the Collections/Archives of the Institute.

        Paul B. Boulden Jr.
        VMI '04
        Paul B. Boulden Jr.


        RAH VA MIL '04
        (Loblolly Mess)
        [URL="http://23rdva.netfirms.com/welcome.htm"]23rd VA Vol. Regt.[/URL]
        [URL="http://www.virginiaregiment.org/The_Virginia_Regiment/Home.html"]Waggoner's Company of the Virginia Regiment [/URL]

        [URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]Company of Military Historians[/URL]
        [URL="http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer"]Museum of the Confederacy[/URL]
        [URL="http://www.historicsandusky.org/index.html"]Historic Sandusky [/URL]

        Inscription Capt. Archibold Willet headstone:

        "A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time, Man is but vanity and dust, In all his flower and prime."

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        • #5
          Re: Very exciting/interesting drawings from VMI

          Very cool drawings, Thank you

          [And heres a public thanks for finding that stuff on the 48th :) ]
          Patrick Rooney

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          • #6
            Re: Very exciting/interesting drawings from VMI

            Check out the rest of the site, especially, VMI during the war, war time personal letters from the cadets, orders from Richmond to VMI....etc....


            404 - Virginia Military Institute
            http://www.vmi.edu/archives/cwsource.html
            Aka
            Wm Green :D
            Illegitimi non carborundum
            (Don’t let the bastards grind you down!)

            Dreaming of the following and other events

            Picket Post
            Perryville

            The like to do a winter camp.....hint hint...

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              Re: Very exciting/interesting drawings from VMI

              I am reminded how images were embelished with borders and other creative designs. A reminder of a slower, less pressured time in our nation's past. Ahhh, wish I had time to just sit a draw. Notice how many were not just technical drawings, but some had a fair understanding of watercolor painting - not an easy medium to master, either.

              - Jay Reid
              Jay Reid

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