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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, September (search)
rey, United States Army; Stone, United States Army; Connelly, Second New York; Harris, Second Rhode Island; Captains Downey, Eleventh New York; Fish, Third New York; Farish, Seventy-ninth New York; Drew, Second Vermont; Shurtleff, Seventh Ohio; L. Gordon, Eleventh Massachusetts; Whitington and Jenkins, New York Twenty-fifth; Lieutenants Fay, New York Twenty-fifth; Hamblin, son of the actor of that name, Thirty-eighth New York; Underhill, Eleventh New York; Worcester, Seventy-first New York; Dempsey, Second New York; Wilcox, Seventh Ohio; Gordon, Second Dragoons United States Army; Caleff, Eleventh Massachusetts; Connelly, Sixty-ninth New York. Captain Ricketts, United States Army, was to have accompanied the party, but is not sufficiently recovered from his wounds to undertake the journey. Included in the number stated above are a number of officers, several of whom are recovering from the effects of the wounds received at the battle of Stone Bridge. The prisoners were marched from
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
lane. One for riving splints from a block or board, for blind-slats, small boxes, etc. A scale-board plane. Patent No. 143,737. Splint-plane. In Fig. 5443, the thickness of the slat is regulated by the spring tongue at the end of the wedge, the tongue being adjusted by a set-screw at the point. The plane is intended for making blind-slats, each one pushing the preceding one out. See patents No. 52,473. Welsh, February 6, 1866; No. 50,947, Ogborn, November 14, 1865; No. 51,153, Dempsey, November 28, 1865. Patent No. 52,173, Kleinschmidt and Schlater, January 23, 1866, has a very oblique setting-knife or cutting-bit. Just forward of it is a channel, having the same angle in respect to the plane that the bit has, so that as the shaving is cut by the bit, it is forced out through the channel, which causes it to be twisted around in the form that paper-lighters are made by hand. Split. 1. (Weaving.) One of the flat strips which are arranged in parallel vertical or
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 23: (search)
ed to the right, Miller found himself the only officer with his company and barely enough men left to work a section. Two determined assaults by the enemy met with bloody repulse, and the third, thanks to the able assistance of Sergeant Ellis, in command of a section, suffered the same fate. Too much praise, Walton reported, cannot be bestowed on Captain Miller for his stubborn defense of the center for several hours; to Lieutenants Hero and McElroy, Sergeant Ellis and Artificers Bier and Dempsey. This part of the action was under the immediate eye of General Longstreet and his staff, who, when Captain Miller's cannoneers were exhausted, dismounted and assisted the working of the guns. Captain Richardson, played upon by three batteries, had one of his guns disabled and retired through the village, but soon righting himself went to the assistance of Toombs at the lower bridge. Later, he and Lieutenant Galbraith were engaged near Miller to nightfall, while Lieutenants Hawes and D
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], $10 reward (search)
ng them exhibited the most dauntless courage. The 2d Ohio and the 2d New York Militia were marched by flank through the woods by a new-made road, and within a mile of the main road, when they came on a battery of eight guns, with four regiments flanked in the rear. Our men were immediately ordered to lie down on either side of the road, in order to allow two pieces of artillery to pass through and attack the work. This battery then opened upon us and killed, on the third round, Lieut. Dempsey, of company 9, New York 2d, and Wm. Maxwell, a drummer, and seriously wounding several others. Our troops were kept in this position for fifteen or twenty minutes under a galling fire, not being able to exchange shots with the enemy, although within a stone's throw of their batteries. They succeeded in retiring in regular order with their battery. The most gallant charge of the day was made by the New York Sixty-ninth, Seventy-ninth and Thirteenth Regiments, which rushed upon o
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
he paper, which is a sufficient reason for its omission. His compliments to Gen. Evans, and to Captain Latham and his, men, are fully justified by their action on that memorable day. One other paragraph we copy. "Having ascertained that Lieut. Dempsey, of Company G, New York Second Regiment, reported in the Baltimore Sun as killed, was in one of the hundred hospitals convenient to Manassas, Stone Bridge and Centreville, I went to see him, and found he had a dangerous wound in the head, caused by a bursting bomb. He told me he had a wife living in New York city, and I insert this for her benefit, trusting it may meet her eye; and will venture a piece of advice. In time to come it would be well for Mrs. Dempsey to keep the Lieutenant at home, and leave us to manage our biggers as suits us best." A correspondent at the University of Virginia sends us the following account of an exponent of private John Armstrong, of the Berkeley Border Guard, (Capt. Nadenbush,) Col.Allen's (2
The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
s Henry...Seventy-ninth N. Y. M. Fay Thomas W...Second Rhode Island. , Leonard...Eleventh Massachusetts. ...Sixty-ninth N. Y. M. Long Joseph...Seventy-ninth N. Y. M. ...First Ohio. Morrison, David...Seventy-ninth N. Y. M. Matson, William...Seventy-ninth N. Y. M. ...First Minnesota. R. T...Seventy-ninth N. Y. M. Power Levi A...Second Rhode Island. Whillingham, William...First Michigan. Lieutenants. Casey, J. M...First Michigan. Dempsey, J. W...Second N. Y. M. Hitchcock...U. S. Marines. ...Twenty-seventh N. Y. M. B. A...First Rhodes Island. G. F...Fifth Massachusetts. Valerhouse...First Minnesota. Sergeants Brown Robert...Fire Zouaves. Belvery, Charles...Second Rhode Island. Barber, James H...Fire Zouaves. Bagley, Charles E...Second Rhode Island. Brasell, A...Second N. Y. M. Henmsyer Lewis...First Michigan. Morris John...Second New York. Wright...First M
The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
Their field officers were brave even to rashness, and the men would not fail them. Out of a company of seventy-odd men in one of the Illinois regiments, only five men are left fit for duty. Letter from Col. Corcoran. Richmond, Va., April 19, 1862. My Ever Dear Friend --Your letter of the 8th instant reached me, and I avail myself of the earliest opportunity to reply. I feel deep regret for the sad intelligence it conveys to my highly esteemed friend and fellow-prisoner, Lieut. Dempsey. I have been using my best endeavors to console him, and I am happy to say that he looks upon the matter in a truly Christian manner. We have been officially notified that we are now detained in consequence of Gen. Wool having failed to comply with terms of agreement. To say that I am not anxious to be honorably released from my present position, would be something more than might be expected from human nature, but to say that I am not perfectly content to patiently await proper a
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], One hundred dollars reward. (search)
when the Confederate officers, prisoners on board the Maple Leaf, captured that steamer and made their escape to Currituck, in North Carolina. A correspondent of the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal furnishes the following instance of heroism connected with the affair, the hero of which is "a poor old man, bowed down with age and poverty." The writer says: A few days after their escape a squad of Federal cavalry in scouring the country to arrest them, came upon the subject of this notice — Dempsey kight by name — in the highway. A small tin bucket, which the old fisherman was carrying in his hand, attracted their attention. They halted and asked him if he had not been feeding the escaped rebel officers. Too proud to utter a falsehood, he unhesitatingly answered in the affirmative. Whereupon they demanded of him to reveal the place of their concealment, and with threats and blows sought to wrest it from him. But the principle of honor was too strong in the old man's bosom, and to
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
e fight commenced at twenty minutes past ten o'clock, and lasted just one hour and five minutes. During this time four shots lodged in the hull of the Kearsage. Eight shots in all struck her hull. One rifle shot passed entirely through her smoke-stack; another rifle shell through the starboard side, below the main rigging, near the shear plank, bursting and wounding three men, causing the only casualties to the crew of the Kearsage during the fight. One of these, a man named Dempsey, had his arm taken off, and the others received fractures of the legs. Another rifle shell struck under the stern and lodged in the rudder post, without exploding; another carried away the starboard life buoy; another scratched the hammock nettings aft. Three thirty-two pounders passed the port side, opposite the ward-room hatch. Another carried away one of the cranes over the ward-room hatch, and, taking a slanting direction upward, passed through the bottom of the cutter on the por