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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 94 12 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 76 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 52 4 Browse Search
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 30 2 Browse Search
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee 22 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 20 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 16 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 16 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 13 3 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 12 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
most unknown in the other armies of Europe. 220 yards from the butt or target was the smallest distance allowed for practice by a full-grown man, according to the English archerystatutes. The cross-bow, as used by the Genoese, whose archers were in high repute in the Middle Ages, was a cumbrous and heavy weapon bent by a small windlass, and incapable of rapid loading and discharge. For illustrations see Iconographic Encyclopedia, Frost's pictorial history ; and for descriptions see Gibbon's history and other works treating of ancient and mediaeval military tactics and weapons. The use of the bow is of great antiquity. Plato credits Apollo with the invention. Ishmael became an archer (Gen. XXI. 20). The Philistine archers overcame Saul (1 Sam. XXXI. 3). David commanded it to be taught (2 Sam. i. 18). Aster of Amphipolis shot Philip of Macedon, and was hanged therefor. An ancient Egyptian bow is preserved in the Abbott Museum, New York, together with the leather case that
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
eek-fire. An incendiary composition used in early times by the Tartars, and afterwards by the Greeks. The invention is ascribed to Collinicus, an architect of Heliopolis, the city of the sun, afterwards called Baalbec. He is reported to have deserted the service of the Caliph and entered that of the Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, A. D. 673. The Emperor Leo described its use, 911; the Princess Anna Commena described its properties, 1106; so did Joinville, 1249. In two sieges, writes Gibbon, the deliverance of Constantinople may be chiefly ascribed to the novelty, the terrors, and the real efficacy of the Greekfire. It was poured from large boilers on the ramparts, or launched in hollow balls of metal, or darted with arrows and javelins, twisted round with flax and tow which had imbibed the inflammable oil. In naval battles, fire-ships filled with these combustibles were carried by the wind, that fanned their flames against the sides of the enemy's vessels. It was usually blo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
The thread is rove through the holes of the needle-holder and the eye of the needle, and, on being pressed through the cloth, pushes back the feeder. On rising, it leaves a loop on the under side, and, the feeder advancing, pushes the cloth along and the loop beneath it; the next time the needle comes down it passes through the former loop, and so on continuously. Sewing-machine made of a single slip of metal. c. The looping of one stitch by the loop of another is shown in Fisher and Gibbon's English patent, No. 10,424, of 1844. One thread is on a lower curved eye-pointed needle, which passes upward through the fabric, whereupon the upper eyepointed needle enters between the former one and its thread; the curved needle, descending, leaves a loop upon the upper needle, the fabric being fed the length of a stitch; the curved needle again ascends, and, at the same time, the upper needle is moved in such a manner that it passes its thread around the curved needle and then retires t