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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Missouri campaign of 1864-report of General Stirling Price. (search)
nemy from Arcadia, where they abandoned a very strong position, through Ironton, where he also took a strong fort, in a most gallant and brilliant manner. The enemy took refuge behind their fortifications at Pilot Knob. Having received such information as appeared to be perfectly reliable concerning the character and strength of the fortifications as induced me to believe that the place could be taken without great loss, T accordingly directed Major-General Marmaduke to take possession of Shepherd's mountain, which was west of the fortifications and completely commanded them. This was most satisfactorily accomplished, and his artillery placed in position on the mountain. Major-General Fagan formed on the south and east. Skirmishing took place all the day, and firing of artillery from the enemy until 2 P. M., when a charge was ordered and made in the most gallant and determined manner, officers and men vieing with each other, in both divisions, in deeds of unsurpassed bravery, char
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
— and the upper and under wires of the respective pair run in the grooved peripheries of the car-wheels, which are rotated by a steam-engine on board. The car is cigar-shaped, and has sails to be used with favoring winds. The device for passing the posts is ingenious, but does not differ substantially from the mode of hanging the tracks of casterwheels for sliding barn-doors. Signals have been made, and notices, etc., have been distributed, by means of balloons. One was invented by Mr. Shepherd, and used in the Arctic regions in the search for Sir John Franklin. The arrangement consisted of a number of printed packets of oiled silk or paper, upon which directions were printed, stating the latitude and longitude of the exploring ships, where they were going to, and the points at which provisions had been left. These were attached at proper intervals to a long slowmatch made of rope dipped in niter; and as the balloon traveled over the country, the match burned gradually away, r
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
ed. See telegraph cable. E-lec′tric clock. A dial with hands and goingtrain impelled by recurrent impulses from an electromagnet. The first known clock of this kind was invented by Wheatstone and exhibited by him in 1840. Appold, Bain, Shepherd, and others have contrived clocks on the same principle. See electro-magnetic clock. E-lec′tric es-cape′ment. A device actuated by electric impulse which intermittingly arrests the motion of the scape-wheel and restrains the train to a pnent magnets, which alternately attract and repel the coil of the bob, according to its magnetized or demagnetized condition. A clock of this kind has been kept in motion by electric currents derived from a zinc plate buried in damp earth. Shepherd's electro-magnetic clock was shown at the London Exposition, 1851. In this clock electromagnetism is the sole motor in moving the pendulum, driving the train, and running the strikingworks, no weights or auxiliary springs being employed. The<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
of balloons in this species of service was with the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsular campaign, and perhaps in other fields of action. The search for the lamented Sir John Franklin gave rise to many ingenious schemes for signaling the party and giving them notice of succor. Mr. Wallace's plan was to make a survey with the assistance of a captive balloon, affording a means of distributing notices which might reach the party. The plan understood to have been adopted was that of Mr. Shepherd. Balloons were inflated and set free, having printed packets of paper or oil-silk, which were distributed occasionally as the balloon traversed across the country. The papers contained directions, stating the latitude and longitude of the exploring ships, the direction in which they were proceeding, and the localities at which provisions had been left. These papers were attached at intervals to a long slow-match made of rope, dipped in niter, and the match, burning gradually away, rele
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 19: (search)
e specimens of the fine arts, in the study of which he found a solace for his senatorial cares. His rooms were crowded with the works of genius,--rare and costly books, beautiful paintings, engravings, illuminated pictures, medallions, statues in bronze and marble,--so that they had almost the appearance of a museum of art. Among other paintings in his bedroom was a landscape representing Ellen's Isle, painted by a colored artist. In the dining-room was a bas-relief of Christ as the Good Shepherd, taken from the Catacombs of Rome. Among countless curiosities in his study, there was a photograph of John Bright, plainly framed, which was once owned by Mr. Lincoln. Among his other treasures of art were an Ecce Homo, after Guido Reni; The Miracle of the slave, by Tintoretto (bequeathed to his friend J. B. Smith); a portrait by Sir Peter Lely; and pictures of the Giotto of Florence, the grand staircase of Versailles, and the facade of the Louvre. These last three things, said Mr. Sumn
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 98 (search)
elf at Fort Davidson. That affair was one of those desperate ventures which a brave man only will make rather than surrender. During the reconnoissance towards the Knob on Sunday, and the skirmishes of Monday and Tuesday, prisoners and rebel wounded all spoke of Price being in command, and told wonderful stories of his strength and numbers. This determined General Ewing to hold his advance in check to the last possible moment, and made him defend the Valley of Arcadia, which lies between Shepherd's, Iron, and three other mountains, which rise abruptly to elevations of from four hundred to five hundred and fifty feet. Fort Davidson lies in the centre of the valley, which is longitudinal east and west. It has a range of one thousand yards only on the only practicable ground for the enemy except he reached the apex of the mountains, which he did not, in the haste of his advance, either think of or attempt until too late. Ewing contended every inch of the valley before entering the fo
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
mmon sense; about one year younger than himself. This woman by her mild, frank, & more than all else: by her very consistent conduct; acquired & ever while she lived maintained a most powerful; & good influence over him. Her plain but kind admonitions generally had the right effect; without arousing his haughty obstinate temper. John began early in life to discover a great liking to fine Cattle, Horses, Sheep, & Swine: & as soon as circumstances would enable him he began to be a practical Shepherd: it being a calling for which in early life he had a kind of enthusiastic longing: A friend writes: So keen was his observation, that, as was told me, he knew when a strange sheep had got into his flock of two or three thousand head. He was a great lover of good stock of all kinds — cattle, sheep, swine, and horses, and cared tenderly for all the beasts he owned or used. together with the idea that as a business it bid fair to afford him the means of carrying out his greatest or pr
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
mmon sense; about one year younger than himself. This woman by her mild, frank, & more than all else: by her very consistent conduct; acquired & ever while she lived maintained a most powerful; & good influence over him. Her plain but kind admonitions generally had the right effect; without arousing his haughty obstinate temper. John began early in life to discover a great liking to fine Cattle, Horses, Sheep, & Swine: & as soon as circumstances would enable him he began to be a practical Shepherd: it being a calling for which in early life he had a kind of enthusiastic longing: A friend writes: So keen was his observation, that, as was told me, he knew when a strange sheep had got into his flock of two or three thousand head. He was a great lover of good stock of all kinds — cattle, sheep, swine, and horses, and cared tenderly for all the beasts he owned or used. together with the idea that as a business it bid fair to afford him the means of carrying out his greatest or pr
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The lost arts (1838). (search)
ighborhood; they kindled their fire, cooked the fish, finished the meal, and removed the apparatus; and glass was found to have resulted from the nitre and sea-sand, vitrified by the heat. Well, I have been a dozen times criticised by a number of wise men, in newspapers, who have said that this was a very idle tale, that there never was sufficient heat in a few bundles of sticks to produce vitrification,--glass-making. I happened, two years ago, to meet, on the prairies of Missouri, Professor Shepherd, who started from Yale College, and like a genuine Yankee brings up anywhere where there is anything to do. I happened to mention this criticism to him. Well, says he, a little practical life would have freed men from that doubt. Said he, We stopped last year in Mexico, to cook some venison. We got down from our saddles, and put the cooking-apparatus on stones we found there; made our fire with the wood we got there, resembling ebony; and when we removed the apparatus there was pure
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
e and Voltaire, 486 Shakespearean wars, 486, 487 Shakespeare, as a dramatic artist, 486 Shakespeare's scholar, 482 Sharps and Flats, 27, 28 Shattuck, L., 439 Shaughraun, the, 268 Shaw, Albert, 361 Shaw, G. B., 286, 294 Shaw, H. W., 22, 30 Shaw Memorial ode, the, 35 Shea, J. D. G., 179, 180 Shedd, W. G. T., 201, 203, 229, 229 n Sheffield apprentice, the, 510 Sheldon, Edward, 267, 293, 294, 296 Shelley, 41, 43, 64, 109, 260 Shenandoah, 266, 269, 275, 278 Shepherd's contemplation, the, 430 Sheridan, P. H., 96, 126, 182 Sheridan, 50 Sheridan's ride, 48 Sherlock Holmes, 286 Sherman, Frank Dempster, 52 Sherman, John, 343, 351, 363 Sherman, Roger, 427 Sherman, W. T., 182 Sherman, 50 Sherwin, 500 Sherzer, Jane, 480 n. Shifting and Incidence of taxation, the, 443 Ship in the desert, the, 154 Sho-gun, the, 289 Shore Acres, 285 Short, Charles Lancaster, 461, 463 Short history of paper money and banking, a, 438 Short int
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