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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 29: siege of Vicksburg--continued. (search)
s quickly as possible to headquarters, set fire to everything of a public character. The Navy Yard contained five saw-mills, besides planing-mills, machine shops, carpenter and blacksmith shops, in fact all the appliances for building a Navy. Saw-mills above the city were also destroyed and the Federal forces left nothing that could be used towards building a boat even. Yazoo never built another ram; the people were quite satisfied to have their houses left standing. The expedition retung the way. Failing in his efforts to make a passage through the boats, he set fire to them and they were all destroyed. The expedition was attacked at this point by artillery and sharp-shooters in force, but they were driven off with loss. Saw-mills were burned, the corn on which an enemy could subsist was destroyed, and at Yazoo City the crews landed and brought away all the bar, round and flat iron intended to be used in the building of their ironclads. Armed boats were sent through t
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 68 (search)
wold, Ga. November 2112Car-wheelsDestroyed at, Griswold, Ga. November 2120Tons wrought-ironDestroyed at, Griswold, Ga. November 268Railroad-carsDestroyed at, Waynesboro, Ga. November 261EngineDestroyed at, Waynesboro, Ga. Nov. 14 to Dec. 1414,070Bales cottonBurned during the campaign. Nov. 14 to Dec. 1412,900Bales cornBurned during the campaign. Nov. 14 to Dec. 1480Tons fodderBurned during the campaign. Nov. 14 to Dec. 1436Grist-millsBurned during the campaign. Nov. 14 to Dec. 1427Saw-millsBurned during the campaign. Nov. 14 to Dec. 14271Cotton-ginsBurned during the campaign. Nov. 14 to Dec. 14160HidesBurned during the campaign. November 16500Bushels corn-mealRebel commissary stores destroyed at Jonesboro, Ga. November 1650Barrels molassesRebel commissary stores destroyed at Jonesboro, Ga. November 211Pistol-factoryIn employ of rebel government, destroyed at Griswold, Ga. November 211Soap-factoryIn employ of rebel government, destroyed at Griswold, Ga. November 211Cand
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
tury in Germany, on the river Roer. Stone, marble, and grain mills had been used many centuries previously in Pontus, Caria, and in Rome. Sawing-table. Saw-mills were driven by water at Augsburg in 1322. Indeed, a saw-mill with a complete selfaction and driven by a water-wheel is found in a Ms. of the thirteenth century, now in Paris. Saw-mills were erected by the Spaniards in the island of Madeira in 1420. Erected in Breslau, 1427; in Norway, 1520; in Rome, 1556. Saw-mills driven by water afterward became common in Europe. In the year 1555, the Bishop of Ely, ambassador from Mary Queen of England to the court of Rome, visited a saw-mill iSaw-mills driven by water afterward became common in Europe. In the year 1555, the Bishop of Ely, ambassador from Mary Queen of England to the court of Rome, visited a saw-mill in the vicinity of Lyons, which he thus describes: — The saw-mill is driven with an upright wheel, and the water that maketh it go is gathered whole into a narrow trough, which delivereth the same water to the wheels. This wheel bath a piece of timber put to the axle-tree end, like the handle of a broch, and fastened to the e
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1, Chapter 12: (search)
necessary for bridging the river here; and, as it was intended to occupy the north bank of the South Chickamauga, that stream also must be bridged, as well as the Tennessee. The South Chickamauga is a hundred and eighty feet wide, with a sluggish current; and the Tennessee, at the point designated for crossing, is fourteen hundred feet across. At this time, there was, in the whole Department of the Cumberland, only one bridge-train, and that was scattered from Bridgeport to Chattanooga. Saw-mills, however, were kept running night and day; and boats were collected or made, and brought up through the woods, not exposed to the view of the enemy at any point on the route. By Friday night, November 20th, a hundred and sixteen pontoons were hidden in North Chickamauga creek, which empties into the Tennessee, five miles above the mouth of the South Chickamauga. This stream offered such facilities for launching the boats, that it was determined to put the pontoons in the water there,