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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Ancestry-birth-boyhood (search)
ra, or other mathematical work higher than the arithmetic, in Georgetown, until after I was appointed to West Point. I then bought a work on algebra in Cincinnati; but having no teacher it was Greek to me. My life in Georgetown was uneventful. From the age of five or six until seventeen, I attended the subscription schools of the village, except during the winters of 1836-7 and 1838-9. The former period was spent in Maysville, Kentucky, attending the school of Richardson [Richeson] and Rand; the latter in Ripley, Ohio, at a private school. I was not studious in habit, and probably did not make progress enough to compensate for the outlay for board and tuition. At all events both winters were spent in going over the same old arithmetic which I knew every word of before, and repeating: A noun is the name of a thing, which I had also heard my Georgetown teachers repeat, until I had come to believe it-but I cast no reflections upon my old teacher, Richardson. He turned out bright
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 154 (search)
right of the Yorktown road. It was determined last evening to reduce the work and ascertain what fortifications were behind, beyond the woods. Early this morning three companies of the First Massachusetts regiment, under Lieut.-Col. Welles, and two companies of the Eleventh, under Major Tripp, left camp and arrived on the ground just about daylight. Company A, Captain Wild, was deployed as skirmishers to the left across the field to prevent a flank movement of the enemy. Company I, Captain Rand, was held in reserve towards the right near a small ravine, while Company H, under Capt. Carruth, advanced at double-quick across the field and charged upon the work. Led by Lieut.-Colonel Welles, they dashed ahead in the most gallant manner. As soon as they were seen crossing the open field, a distance of four or five hundred yards from the redoubt, the rebels opened a spirited fire from behind the parapet. In face of this fire the gallant little band of sixty advanced at double-qui
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 1: Photographing the Civil War (search)
tardily voted to Mr. Brady by Congress did not retrieve his financial fortunes, and he died in the nineties, in a New York hospital, poor and forgotten, save by a few old-time friends. Brady's own negatives passed in the seventies into the possession of Anthony, in default of payment of his bills for photographic supplies. They were kicked about from pillar to post for ten years, until John C. Taylor found them in an attic and bought them; from this they became the backbone of the Ordway-Rand collection; and in 1895 Brady himself had no idea what had become of them. Many were broken, lost, or destroyed by fire. After passing to various other owners, they were discovered and appreciated by Edward Bailey Eaton, of Hartford, Connecticut, who created the immediate train of events that led to their importance as the nucleus of a collection of many thousand pictures gathered from all over the country to furnish the material for this work. From all sorts of sources, from the Atlanti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
adjourns......Aug. 5, 1886 [During this session of Congress, President Cleveland vetoed 145 bills out of 1,649 passed; of 977 private pension bills he vetoed 123.] Seven Chicago anarchists convicted of murder; August Spies, Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden, Albert A. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, and Louis Lingg, sentenced to death; Oscar W. Neebe to fifteen years imprisonment......Aug. 20, 1886 Lightning ignites 70,000 pounds of dynamite and seventy tons of powder at Laflin & Rand's powder-magazine near Chicago, Ill.; five killed, twenty-five injured......Aug. 29, 1886 Charleston earthquake......Aug. 31, 1886 Apache Indian chief Geronimo, with his band, surrenders to General Miles at Skeleton cañon, Arizona......Sept. 4, 1886 American yacht Mayflower defeats the British yacht Galatea off New York, in international race for America's cup......Sept. 7 and 11, First national convention of antisaloon Republicans meets at Chicago; 300 delegates......Sept. 16, 1
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
ll in chymistry Aurum Fulminans, a grain, I think he said, of it, put into a silver spoon and fired, will give a blow like a musquett, and strike a hole through the silver spoon. — Pepys, 1663. A fulminating powder which explodes when heated to 360° may be made of niter, 3 parts; dry carbonate of potash, 2 parts; sulphur, 1 part. The following patents may be consulted by those desirous of ascertaining the ingredients of various patented fulminates: — Guthrie1834.Boldt1866. Kling1857.Rand1867. Ruschaupt et al.1862.Goldmark1867. Lipps1864.Ruschaupt1868. Stockwell1865. Fumi-ga′tor. An apparatus for applying smoke, gas, or perfume: — 1. To destroy insects or vermin in their holes, or upon clothing, trees, or plants. 2. To destroy infection or miasma in buildings, ships, clothing, or feathers. 3. To diffuse a fragrant or invigorating perfume through an apartment or ward. 4. To suffuse the lungs with a soothing or healing vapor. The fumigator involves the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
.Pannuscorium. Hide-stretcher.Parchment. Hide-workerPatent-leather. Hollow punch.Pebbling. Horse.Pebbling-machine. Hose.Peg. Hose-making machine.Peg-cutter. Huffling.Peg-float. Hungarian leather.Pegging-awl. Ice-creeper.Pegging-jack. Ice-sandal.Pegging-machine. Insole.Pep-strip. Instep-stretcher.Pelt. Jappanned leather.Plate leather. Jigger.Pommel. Jucten.Pooler. KipPricker. Lap-shaper.Pricking-wheel. Lap-skiving machine.Pure. Lap-stone.Raising. Last.Raising-board. Laster.Rand. Last-holder.Randing-machine. Lasting-awl.Raw-hide. Lasting-jack.Roan-leather. Lasting-machine.Round knife. Lasting-pinchers.Rounding-tool. Lasting-tool.Russet-leather. Layer.Russia-leather. Leach.Saddlery. Leather.Saddler's pinchers. Leather. Artificial.Saffian. Leather-awl.Sandal. Leather-boarding machine.Scalloping-tool. Leather-buffing.Screw wire-fastener. Leather-chamfering machine.Scribing-compass. Leather-cloth.Seal-skin. Leather-corrugating machine.Seam-roller. Leath
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ve side to the object-glass. See positive eye-piece. Ran. 1. (Rope-making.) A reel of 20 yarns. 2. (Nautical.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. Rand. （Shoemaking.) One of the slips beneath the heel of a sole, to bring the rounding-surface to a level ready to receive the lifts of the heel. Ran-dan′. ers. The strip is kept in a curved path by a guide, and released by a stripper at the lower opening b, properly crimped and curved for application to the heel. Rand′ing-ma-chine′. （Shoemaking.) One for fitting rands on heel-blanks, to give the cup shape to the upper part of the blank. In the example, the machine consistsrod are carried far enough to the left to disengage the clutch-teeth and separate the cams, so that the rand may be disengaged therefrom. Randing-machine. Rand′ing-tool. （Shoemaking.) One for cutting out slips of leather to form rands. The slip is cut into lengths, which are crimped into a horseshoe shape.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
or drawing the cylinders used in paper-making and other machinery, having a diameter of 26 1/2 inches, and length of 6 1/2 feet; a vertical screw is used, the nut of which is turned by toothed wheels, driven from a windlass. Lead and tin pipes are cast in tubular form, and afterward drawn out upon triblets. The same course is adopted with brass boilertubes, which are sometimes drawn upon a taper-triblet, so that the tube may be thicker at the more exposed end, or that next the firebox. Rand's collapsible tin tubes, for artists' colors, having a thickness of but 1/170 of an inch, were formerly drawn out in this way from the hollow cast pipe, the ends being cast and soldered in; for this purpose ten drawings were required, which were, however, owing to the ductility of the metal, conducted as one continuous operation. At present, they are formed by a screw, or hydraulic press. A disk of tin having the external diameter of the intended tube is punched out, disked, and perforat
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Massachusetts Volunteers. (search)
Massachusetts Regiment Cavalry.-(Colored.) Organized at Camp Meigs, Readville. 1st Battalion moved to Washington, D. C., May 5-8, 1864. At Camp Stoneman, Giesboro Point, Md., May 8-12. Dismounted and moved to Camp Casey, near Fort Albany, May 12. 2nd Battalion moved to Washington May 6-8, and to Camp Casey May 9. 3rd Battalion moved to Washington May 8-10, and to Camp Casey May 11. Regiment moved to Fortress Monroe, Va., thence to City Point, Va., May 13-16. Attached to Rand's Provisional Brigade, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, May, 1864. Hinks' Colored Division, 18th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, to July, 1864. Point Lookout, Md., District of St. Mary's, 22nd Army Corps, to March, 1865. Unattached, 25th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia, to June, 1865. Dept. of Texas to October, 1865. Service. Duty at City Point, Va., as Infantry till June 16, 1864. Before Petersburg June 16-19.
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, United States Colored Troops. (search)
he Cumberland, to January, 1866. Service. Garrison duty at Nashville, Tenn., and in Middle Tennessee, till January, 1866. Battle of Nashville December 15-16, 1864. Mustered out January 13, 1866. Battery B, 2nd United States Colored Regiment Light Artillery Organized at Fort Monroe, Va., January 8, 1864. Attached to Fort Monroe, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to April, 1864. Artillery, Hincks' Colored Division, 18th Corps, Army of the James, to May, 1864. Rand's Provisional Brigade, 18th Corps, to June, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 18th Corps, June, 1864. Unattached Artillery, Dept. of Virginia land North Carolina, to July, 1864. Defenses of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, to May, 1865. Artillery 25th Corps and Dept. of Texas to March, 1866. Service. Duty at Fort Monroe, Va., till April, 1864. Butler's operations south of James River and against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., May 4 to June 15, 1864
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