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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
were also exhibited. Skin′ning-ap′pa-ra′tus. A mechanical appliance for removing the hides from animals. The hide is ripped as usual, and the head laid bare; the horns being attached to a ring in the floor, a rope is fastened round the neck of the hide, and, running over the pulley on the floor, passes round the adjustable drum on the horizontal shaft, which is secured by a clutch. An endless rope on a grooved wheel works the shaft. Skinning-apparatus. Skips. Skin-wool. Wool pulled from the dead animal. Cornish skip. Skip. 1. (Mining.) A kind of bucket (a, Fig. 5136) employed in narrow or inclined shafts where the hoisting-device has to be confined between guides. It is held to the guides by friction-rollers and flanges, which bear against them, and is provided with a hinged door for discharging material. b. is a water-bucket, used in mines where the quantity to be raised is small, or previous to putting down a pump. On striking the water, the <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
for wiping machinery, as an absorbent in railway axle-boxes, etc. Wool washing and wringing machine. 3. Paper scraps of an office, prie shuttle and laid in the shed. Also known as the shoot, or tram. Wool. 1. The fleece of the sheep. See articles following. 2. A slahe carding-machine. See also wool-picker. and Fig 993, page 412. Wool is also cleaned by treatment in a chamber with petroleum, or with su by drawingrollers; the noil being passed away into a receptacle. Wool′der. 1. (Nautical.) A stick used for tightly winding a rope rou it at the rate necessary to give the required hardness of twist. Wool′ing. Wrapping. As of the yarn in serving a rope. A wrapping of h Wool-dyed. Cloth whose fiber has been dyed before weaving. Wool′en cloth. Woolen cloth from the loom is made into broadcloth by a to an even length and smooth surface by shears, cutter, or fire. Wool′en Manu-fac′ture. The treatment of wool is according to its st
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 4: Bristol County. (search)
a bounty of two hundred dollars to each volunteer for nine months service. Twenty-five thousand dollars were appropriated to pay said bounties. October 21st, A further appropriation of five thousand dollars was made for the Home and Coast Guard, and twenty thousand for military bounties, which on the 13th of December was increased by a loan of twenty-six thousand dollars. 1863. February 26th, The city council adjourned for the purpose of paying their respects to Governor Andrew and General Wool at the city hall. March 4th, State aid was directed to be paid to the families of colored citizens who shall be mustered into the service of the United States. April 9th, Five hundred dollars were authorized to be expended on the enlistment of a company of heavy artillery, which on the 21st of May was increased to one thousand dollars. July 15th, A watchman was discharged for using seditious language. July 30th, State aid was directed to be paid to the families of drafted men. Ordered,
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General ., Chapter 36: (search)
et was convened, and, after a full discussion of the matter, it was decided that the only thing that could be done, was to authorize the Secretary of War to communicate with the rebel authorities upon the subject. He was directed to authorize General Wool to send by flag-of-truce boat, or by telegraph, a message to Jefferson Davis, representing that the course pursued by the Federal government toward rebel spies had heretofore been lenient and forbearing; that in many cases such persons had bee of the men now held. Receiving a copy of these instructions, Colonel Key and myself, feeling that we had exhausted the power of the government in this matter, returned at once to Fortress Monroe. We arrived there on the 23d day of April. General Wool was immediately found, and without a moment's delay, he caused the required dispatches to be forwarded, by way of Norfolk, through General Huger, who was then in command of that place, with the urgent request that he would instantly transmit i
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 38: (search)
rfidy on the part of the Washington authorities. Just previous to these important captures, Gen. Wool, on the Federal side, had declared, in a letter dated the 13th February, 1862: I am alone clot each party to pay the expense of transporting their prisoners to the frontier; and this point Gen. Wool promised — to refer to the decision of his Government. At a second interview on the 1st March, Gen. Wool declared that his Government would not consent to pay these expenses; when Gen. Cobb promptly gave up the point, leaving the cartel free from all of Gen. Wool's objections, and just what Gen. Wool's objections, and just what he had proposed in his letter of the 13th February. Upon this, Gen. Wool informed Gen. Cobb that his Government had changed his instructions, and abruptly broke off the negotiation. The occasion ofGen. Wool informed Gen. Cobb that his Government had changed his instructions, and abruptly broke off the negotiation. The occasion of this bad faith and dishonour on the part of the enemy was, that in the interval they had taken several thousand prisoners at Fort Donelson, which reversed the former state of things, and gave them a
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Biographical sketches. (search)
Biographical sketches. General Wm. Buel Franklin Was born in York, Pa., February 27, 1823; graduating at West Point in June, 1843, he was assigned to the corps of topographical engineers. In the Chihuahua Column in the early part of Gen. Taylor's campaign in Northern Mexico, he served upon the staff of Gen. Wool. He was on the staff of the commander-in-chief at Buena Vista, and for gallant and meritorious services in that battle, was brevetted first lieutenant. For several years prior to 1852, he was instructor in natural and experimental philosophy, at West Point Military Academy. He subsequently filled the same chair in the College of New York. He was engineer in charge of the Capitol at Washington, from November, 1859, to March, 1861. Naturally the services of a loyal, trained soldier, so accomplished as was the subject of this sketch, were in eager demand in the spring of 186; he was appointed, May 14, colonel of the Twelfth United States Infantry, and three days
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Nims' Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
ads as an attack by land was looked for. The men stood at their guns all night, but morning dawned without the appearance of the enemy. At the same time the left section was stationed at Hampton Bridge under Lieutenant Hall. The morning of the same day the battery was ordered to Hampton Creek, where it remained for four hours firing several shots at the Merrimac, which was, however, too far away to be reached. While in camp at Fort Monroe there was a grand review of all the troops by General Wool and also during their stay General McClellan's army of 125,000 marched by on their way to Yorktown. Speaking of the stay at Fort Monroe, Captain Russell writes: This was one of the most trying times for the battery. We were all anxious to get to the front somewhere and while encamped here, along came the Army of the Potomac on the way to Yorktown. Day after day a continuous stream of men and batteries passed us calling to us Come on, get into the swim with us. While here the batter
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 38: repeal of the Missouri Compromise.—reply to Butler and Mason.—the Republican Party.—address on Granville Sharp.—friendly correspondence.—1853-1854. (search)
bjected. I would not have been allowed to be there. （Seward's Life, vol. II. p. 216.) Everett first signified in the Senate his opposition, February 7. It does not appear that his convictions were then against it. He maintained cordial relations with its author during the whole controversy. Three days after the report was made Douglas gave a dinner, at which, as guests, he placed Everett on his right, and Dawson of Georgia, a Whig supporter of the measure, on his left. Another guest, General Wool, gave a toast to the two Whig senators as the Whig candidates for President and Vice-President in 1856. New York Tribune, Jan. 9, 1854. Mr. Everett appears for some weeks to have been uncertain as to what course he should take; and he sought from friends at home, who shared his confidence, information as to the light in which it [the bill] would be regarded in Massachusetts by the judicious part of the community. After noting in a letter of January 10 the action of the previous Congre
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)
r, 596 Valdes, 8 Valdez, Don Antonio, 625 Valera, 81 Vallandingham, Clement L., 349 Van Bragt, 536 Van Buren, 337 Vance, Hugh, 426 Vanderbilt (University), 214 Van Dyke, Henry, 129 Varieties of religious experience, 253 Vassall Morton, 190 Vassar, 412 Vaterlandslos, 581 Vega, Garcilasso de la, 618 Veiller, Bayard, 293 Venetian life, 78, 164 Verfassung undDemokratie der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 586 Verga, 81 Verlaine, 50 Vermont Wool-Dealer, the, 285 Verplanck, G. C., 481, 543 Verrazano, the navigator, 185 Versterter Saboth, 606 Verzweiflung, 602 Vespuccius, 185 Vethake, H., 434 Via Crucis, 88 Victor, Mrs., Frances Fuller, 153 Victor, Mrs. M. V., 71 Victor Durand, 278 Victorian poets, 127 Viereck, G. S., 581 View of the United States, a, 431, 432 Views Afoot, 39 Viking age, the, 163 Village life in China, 212 Villeneufve, Le Blanc de, 591 Vincent, M. R., 208 Virey, 579 Virgil,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
l had he gone in any other way. The only reason why this was not clearly understood at the time was that these successive steps were not made public, and that General Butler wrote at the time a letter to Governor Andrew This letter will be found in Schouler, I, 99, and in Headley's Massachusetts in the Civil War, p. 25. Schouler (I, 101, 133) fully recognizes that it was Felton who planned the expedition. The Comte de Paris makes no mention of Felton, but attributes the whole plan to General Wool, whom he assumes to have been without instructions from Washington. in which he omitted all reference either to Mr. Felton as the originator of the plan or to the express orders finally received. Leaving Philadelphia about 3 P. M. on April 20, the 8th Mass. reached Perryville about 6 P. M., and found a steamer quietly awaiting it, as arranged by Mr. Felton. The same glamour and melodramatic character were thrown in the newspapers of the time about the supposed seizure of this ferry bo
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