He also called PGA Tour tournaments, World Baseball Classic tournaments in 2006, college football, and basketball for Sirius XM Radio.
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Later he accepted a position in Washington under Captain Montgomery Meigs, of the United States Engineering Corps where he served for one year as assistant engineer of the United States Capitol and Post Office buildings.
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Being proficient in engineering, he determined to adopt that as a profession, and in 1848 entered the University of Virginia, where he remained one session, then accompanied his father to France.
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He married Sadie MacMurdo; they had children: Amelia, the well known author, who became the wife of Prince Trubetskoy; Gertrude, who became the wife of Allen Potts, Esq.
Soldiers and impressed slaves constructed the line to the east of Williamsburg as recommended by Captain Alfred L. Rives, an 1848 civil engineering graduate of Virginia Military Institute (VMI) who was acting chief of the Engineer Bureau at Confederate headquarters in Richmond.
His son, Alfred Landon Rives, was a prominent engineer, and his granddaughter Amélie Rives was a novelist, best known for The Quick or the Dead? (1888).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1906 to the Sixtieth Congress.