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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 110 0 Browse Search
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman . 66 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 64 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 60 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 56 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 52 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 52 0 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. 50 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 34 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 32 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
t of the bottom consisted of mud, and upon this portion, 270 feet in length, a foundation of rubble was laid, and covered with earth. This portion is 150 feet broad at the base and 12 feet on top, being encased with large stones. The overfall dam is 1,204 feet in length, founded on the bare rock, the deepest portion having a depth of 24 feet below low tides. While on the subject of dams we must not forget that constructed by Lieutenant-Colonel Bailey to rescue the fleet of gunboats on Red River after the disastrous defeat of the army under General Banks in his ill-starred and worse-managed expedition. As the fleet arrived in the neighborhood of Alexandria it was detained by the low stage of water on the falls at that point. It seemed impossible to escape from the trap, but Colonel Bailey constructed a wing-dam 600 feet in length, which concentrated the flow of water in a narrow channel, and made it possible for the gunboats to float down to the lower level, whence they reached
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
one point, so as to increase the depth to allow the passage of a boat from one level to another, as at a. The river having a dam across it and a sluice at one point, the sluicegate is opened, and during the temporary increase of depth in the sluice-way the boat is drawn through. It is a very ancient device (see sluice), and is still used in many countries with boats of moderate size. A memorable case of flashing is that when Lieutenant-Colonel Bailey rescued the fleet of gunboats on Red River after the defeat of the Union army under General Banks. The gunboats were flashed over the falls at Alexandria by means of a wing-dam made of log cribs filled in with stone. 2. (Plumbing.) a. A lap-joint (b) used in sheetmetal roofing, where the edges of the sheets meet on a projecting ridge. b. A strip of lead leading the drip of a wall into a gutter. Flashing. Step-flashings are those situated at the junction of the sloping side of a roof and a wall. They are turned in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
face. Sometimes several of these trees collect together in the same place, and form a small islet, which, after maintaining its position for some time, and gradually increasing its dimensions, at length attains an enormous magnitude, and often becomes an impassable barrier, extending along the river's course for many miles. This is what the boatmen call a raft. It generally occurs in the tributaries of the Mississippi, and not in the river itself. One instance of this is afforded by the Red River, and another by the Atchafalaya, a river flowing out of the Mississippi, at a point about 250 miles from the sea. The Atchafalaya raft extends over a space of 20 miles; but the river's bed, for the whole of this distance, is not filled up with drift-timber, — the actual length of the raft itself being only about 10 miles. The snag-boat consists of two hulls, firmly secured to each other, at a distance of a few feet apart; and over the intervening space a deck is thrown, having an apertu
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
the paddle-beam to the side, and is also called the sponson-rim. b. A passage along the inside of a ship, between the fore-and-aft cock-pits, to give the carpenters access to a leak. See wing-passage. 12. (Hydraulic Engineering.) a. An extension endways of a dam, sometimes at an angle with the main portion. b. A side dam on a river shore to contract the channel. A notable instance of their use is mentioned on page 674, where the depth of water was increased in the channel of Red River to rescue a fleet of gun-boats. 13. A shoulder-knot or small epaulette. 14. One of the sides of the stage in a theater. Wing and wing. （Nautical.) Said of a foreand-aft vessel going before the wind, with her foresail hauled over to one side, and mainsail to the other side. Wing-com′pass. A joiner's compass with an are-shaped piece which passes through the opposite leg, and is clamped by a set-screw. Wing′er. （Nautical.) A smaller water-cask stowed in a vessel's