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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., From Gettysburg to the coming of Grant. (search)
irited contest, was repulsed, losing a battery of five guns, two colors, and 450 prisoners. The skill and promptitude of Major-General Warren, and the gallantry and bearing of the officers and soldiers of the Second Corps, are entitled to high commendation. By command of Major-General Meade. S. Williams, Asst. Adjt.-General. The Union loss was 50 killed, 335 wounded, and 161 captured or missing= 546. The Confederate loss was 136 killed, 797 wounded, and 445 captured or missing = 1378.--editors. The situation at that time was singularly precarious. All the trans-portation of the army was massed in fields off the road, and a breaking of our line at any point would have inflicted incalculable damage. A panic among teamsters is a thing greatly to be dreaded in an army. When we reached the vicinity of Centreville the army was halted and took position to await attack. Lee had followed closely, destroying the rail-road as he advanced. After a brief reconnoissance he start
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
stern coast of Iceland.] Eskimos appear in Greenland......1349 Pizigani's map of the Atlantic......1367-73 Nicolo Zeno with three ships belonging to Sir Henry Sinclair, Earl of the Orkney Islands, visits Greenland and possibly Vinland......1394 Communication with Greenland ceases about......1400 Berthancourt settles the Canary islands......1402 Madeira Islands rediscovered by the Portuguese......1418-20 These islands previously discovered by Machan, an Englishman......1327-78 The Claudius Clavus map, giving the earliest delineation of any part of America (Greenland)......1427 era of permanent discovery Columbus born......1435-36 (?) 1445 Visits England and Iceland prior to......1470 Columbus in Portugal......1470-84 Marco Polo's travels first printed......1477 Columbus in Spain. Announces his views to Ferdinand and Isabella......1485-86 The views of Columbus referred to a junto of ecclesiastics, which declares them vain and impracticable.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
rtification, etc.) An angle pointing inward (a), as in a redoubt, or at the junction of the flanks of a bastion with the curtain. Reentering-angles. Re-fin′er-y. An apparatus for removing impurities or crudities from metals, spirits, petroleum, sugar, and what not. The term is a general one, and with metals may include reducingfur-naces of various kinds. Also roasting, decarbonizing, and desulphurizing furnaces, Bessemer processes, etc. (which see). See also Mal-Leable iron, page 1378. See also sugar-machinery. With liquors, the term includes apparatus and machinery for rectifying and ageing liquors. With petroleum, it includes apparatus for removing the various crudities which are in the raw product. Re-fin′ing. The process of freeing metals, liquids, or other substances from impurities or crudities which impair their quality or unfit them for their appropriate uses. 1. Liquids are, in some cases, refined by adding soluble substances which entangle t
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)
Commandant and Chief of Conscript Bureau, East Tennessee. Henry Heth. 1368. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 38. Major-General, May 24, 1863. Commanding division, A. P. Hill's Corps, Army of Northern Virginia. 1848. Walter H. Stevens. 1372. Born New York. Appointed New York. 4. Brigadier-General, August 28, 1864. Chief Engineer Richmond defences, 1862-‘63; in 1863-‘64 commanding Richmond defences; 1864 Chief Engineer, Army of Northern Virginia. William E. Jones. 1378. Born Virginia. Appointed Virginia. 1o. Brigadier-General, September 19, 1862. Commanded Cavalry Brigade in Army of Northern Virginia; 1862 commanding Valley District; commanding cavalry in 1863 in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee. Killed June 5, 1864, at Mt. Crawford, Va. Thomas S. Rhett. 1382. Born South Carolina. Appointed at Large. 14. Colonel, 1861. Commanding Richmond defences; Inspector of Ordnance, Ordnance Bureau. Charles H. Tyler. 1391. Born Virginia.