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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., Xxx. Political Mutations and results.—the Presidential canvass of 1864.< (search)
whelming Republican triumph; Total vote:Republican.Democratic. GovernorGilmore, 37,006Harrington, 31,340 Connecticut following with one equally decided, Total vote:Republican.Democratic. GovernorBuckingham, 39,820O. S. Seymour, 34,162. though her Democratic candidate for Governor was far less obnoxious to War Democrats than his predecessor had been; and, though Rhode Island showed a falling off in the Republican majority, Total vote:Republican.Democratic. GovernorJ. Y. Smith, 8,840G. H. Browne, 7,302  A. C. Barstow, 1,380  it was simply because, in the absence of any election for Congress, and in view of the certainty that the Republican ascendency would be maintained, no serious effort was made to call out a full vote, and personal considerations exerted their natural influence in so small a State when no special or urgent reason is presented for a rigid respect to party lines. The Presidential Election in immediate prospect soon fixed that share of pub
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
（Nautical.) See Uphroe. U′vu-la–for′ceps. Celsius, first century A. D., describes the use of the uvula-forceps; and an instrument supposed to be for that purpose was found by Dr. Savenko in 1819 in a house in Pompeii. It is pictured in Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, page 274, and is in the Museum at Portici, together with lancets, spatulas, a cautery, catheters, needles, a tenaculum, probes, etc., found at the same time and place. See surgical instruments. U-vu′la-tome. Ar-brake, in which the general construction of the brake is analogous to that of the Westinghouse. The power employed is the pressure of the atmosphere produced by creating a vacuum instead of that due to compressed air. It is the invention of J. Y. Smith of Pittsburgh. Vac′u-um–cyl′in-der cock. （Steam-engine.) A valve in a steam-cylinder to allow air to enter behind the piston when a partial vacuum has occurred in the cylinder. Vac′u-um–fil′ter. One in which the
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
tisan Rangers, Col. W. C. Falkner; Third Mississippi cavalry, three companies, Col. John McQuirk; Eighteenth Mississippi cavalry battalion, Maj. A. H. Chalmers; Mississippi State troops, Capt. Samuel Matthews; Mississippi cavalry companies, Capts. J. Y. Smith, Sol. G. Street, J. F. White; cavalry battalion State troops, Maj. G. L. Blythe. On April 1st, Stevenson's division had 681 officers and 9,795 men present for duty; Smith's division, including Hubert, 600 officers and 6,421 men; Bowen's Smith's division, including Hubert, 600 officers and 6,421 men; Bowen's division (then Forney's), 395 officers and 4,169 men; Loring's division, including Moore, 549 officers and 6,678 men. Adams had 53 officers and 378 men; Chalmers, 82 officers and 780 men; Ruggles, 152 officers and 1,809 men. This shows a grand total fighting strength in Mississippi, exclusive of the southern district, of 2,512 officers and 30,030 men. The aggregate present, exclusive of the southern district, was 41, 107; aggregate present and absent, or total enrolled, 55,590. Third mi
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
essional Investigating Committee. Senator Simmons appeared before the Commission and read the testimony, and remarked that "there were trifling errors therein." Mr. Schubarth came to him with a letter of introduction from Messrs. A. D. & J. Y. Smith, a business firm of Providence, "of great wealth and respectability," to use Mr. Simmons's own language, stating that the bearer was the inventor of a breech-loading rifle, and desired to obtain an order from the Government for its use in the rview at the State Department and found the invention was not satisfactory. Springfield rifled muskets were wanted, and he got an order for twenty thousand, to which was afterwards added one for thirty thousand, making fifty thousand in all. Messrs. Smith afterwards declined embarking in the business, and Schubarth found other parties in New York who would carry out the contract. Mr. Simmons testified before the committee on this point: "They wanted an understanding with me about my comm