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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 13: (search)
ed, four hundred and fifty-five (455); total, five hundred and twenty-two (522). These figures, added to the total of casualties as reported up to July 4th, viz., killed, twelve hundred and twenty-one (1221), wounded, eight thousand two hundred and twenty-nine (8229) total, nine thousand four hundred and fifty (9450), gives the entire losses (killed and wounded) in battle for the whole Army, while under the command of General Johnston, as follows, viz: killed, twelve hundred and eighty-eight (1288); wounded, eight thousand six hundred and eighty-four (8684); total, nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-two (9972). A deduction of the same, viz., killed, sixty-seven (67), wounded, four hundred and fifty-five (455), total, five hundred and twenty-two (522), from the total of casualties reported from July 4th to September 1st, viz., killed, eighteen hundred and twenty-three (1823), wounded, ten thousand seven hundred and twenty-three (10,723), total, twelve thousand five hundred and forty
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
eight-driven clocks commenced, cannot now be determined, but it is certain that the clocks of the Spanish Saracens were driven by weights. The renowned Gerbert studied philosophy and common-sense at the Saracenic University of Cordova, became successively a schoolmaster at Rheims (where he had a clock), Archbishop of Ravenna, and Pope Sylvester II., to which latter dignity he was advanced by the Emperor Otho III.; and they died by poison, both of them. To follow up the recital: — A. D. 1288, a clock was placed in the old palace yard, London, and remained till the reign of Queen Elizabeth. A. D. 1292, a clock was placed in Canterbury Cathedral. A. D. 1300, Dante refers to a clock which struck the hours. Chaucer refers to the horologe. No certain mention is made, up to this time, of the means of regulating the speed of the machine, and that the pendulum had not been adopted to any extent, is certain. It may be presumed that the device used was a fly (see fly); a wheel
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
of impact upon the air, thus increasing or diminishing the resistance of a given surface of wing and modifying the speed. This regulator was probably the first device attached to the going works of a clock, many centuries before the oscillating arm or the pendulum were adapted to the purpose. See pendulum. Among the clocks thus regulated may be cited that of Richard of Wallingford, abbot of St. Albans, A. D. 1380. It is likely that the clock erected in the Old Palace-Yard, London, in 1288, and that of Canterbury Cathedral, A. D. 1292, were similarly constructed. To go a step farther back, we may suppose that the clocks presented by Pope Paul 1. to Pepin of France, A. D. 760, and to Charlemagne by the Caliph Haroun Al Raschid, A. D. 810, were of similar construction; or perhaps were clepsydras. 2. (Printing.) A vibrating frame b with fingers, taking a printed sheet from the tapes and delivering it on to the heap. 3. (Knitting-machine.) Another name for the latch (wh
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
ic, as the hygrometric pendulum, ballistic pendulum, etc. Previous to the application of the pendulum, a fly-wheel was used, the vanes meeting the resistance of the air, forming a limit to the speed, as in the musical boxes of the present day. Such was probably the regulator in the clocks of the Saracens, which were moved by weights as early as the eleventh century; the clock which struck the hours, referred to by Dante (1265-1321); the clock in the old Palace Yard, London, put up about 1288 and remaining till the time of Elizabeth; the clock made by William of Wallingford in the reign of Richard II. （1377-85). Ebn Junis, of the University of Cordova, invented the timemeasuring pendulum, and his friend and fellow-philosopher, Gerbert, invented the escapement, as it is believed. Gerbert became, successively, schoolmaster at Rheims (where he had a clock), Archbishop of Ravenna, and Pope Sylvester II. He died by poison in 1002. So did his patron, Otho III., about the same tim
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
) In Gracie's brigade, department of Richmond, Gen. Robert Ransom, May, 1864; near Drewry's bluff. No. 80—（775, 779) Mentioned by Gen. B. R. Johnson. No. 87—（909) Mentioned by Gen. B. R. Johnson, Petersburg, Va., November 6, 1864: Three companies moved out and took the enemy's picket line in front of Gracie's salient, capturing 31 prisoners without firing a gun or losing a man. No. 88, No. 89—Various returns, 1864, in Gracie's brigade, Longstreet's corps, Lee's army. No. 95—（287, 1288) Mentioned in report of Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson; operations from March 28 to April 9, 1865. March 30th, brigade commanded by Colonel Stansel at White Oak road. (1300) Brigade mentioned in Gen. Fitzhugh Lee's report as being at Hatcher's Run, March 31, 1865. The Forty-Second Alabama infantry. The Forty-second Alabama, organized at Columbus, Miss., in May, 1862, was principally a reorganization of other regiments whose one year's service was completed. Lieutenant-Colonel Lanier, M
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., [from the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, March 30, April 6, 27, and May 12, 1902.] (search)
r-General, June 17, 1861. Commanded Third Brigade, Army of Shenandoah. Killed July 21, 1861, at Bull Run, Va. (He was the man who gave T. J. Jackson his sobriquet of Stonewall. Look, men; there is Jackson standing like a stonewall!) 1846. John A. Brown. 1287. Born Maryland. Appointed Maryland. 16. Lieutenant-Colonel, Confederate States Army. Chief of ordnance and artillery, staff of General E. Kirby Smith, Army Kentucky and Trans-Mississippi Department. Thomas J. Jackson. 1288. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 17. Lieutenant-General, October 1o, 1862. Commanded Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. Mortally wounded at Chancellorsville; died May 1o, 1863, Richmond, Va. Stonewall Jackson. John Adams. 1296. Born Tennessee. Appointed Tennessee. 25. Brigadier-General, December 29, 1862. Commanding brigade Loring's Division, Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee. Killed November 30, 1864, at Franklin, Tenn. William D. Smith. 1306. Born Georgia