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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 22 (search)
eries on the crests. Wisely decided, as the event proved. The afternoon passed on in calm and cloudless splendor. From headquarters I rode down the left, then back to Slocum's headquarters, on a high hill, half or three quarters of a mile south from the Cemetery, on the Baltimore pike. Everywhere quiet, the men stretched lazily on the ground in line of battle, horses attached to the caissons, batteries unlimbered and gunners resting on their guns. The thunderbolts were shut up, like Aeolus' winds; it seemed as if the sun might set in peace over all this mighty enginery of destruction, held in calm, magnificent reserve. The rebel attack on the left. But unseen hands were letting loose the elements. General Meade had not failed to see the comparatively exposed position of our left; and between three and four the order was sent out for the extreme left — then formed by Sickles's (Third) corps — to advance. If the enemy was preparing to attack us there, our advance would s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
A priming-wire. Aim-front′let. A piece of wood hollowed out to fit the muzzle of a gun, so as to make it level with the breech, formerly in use among gunners. Wooden front-sights on a similar principle are still used on board ship in case of emergency, as when an accident occurs to the proper metal sights. Air and steam En′gine. See Aero-steam engine. Air appliances and machinery. Acetifier.Air-level. Acoustic instruments.Air-lock. Acoustic telegraph.Air-machine. Aeolus.Air-meter. Aerator.Airohydrogen blow-pipe. Aerial railway.Airometer. Aero-hydro-dynamic wheelAir-pipe. Air-poise. Aerostat.Air-pressure filter. Aero-steam-engine.Air-pump. Air and steam engine.Air-regulator Air as a means of transmitting power.Air-scuttle. Air-shaft. Air as a water-elevator.Air-spring. Air-bath.Air-stove. Air bed and cushion.Air-thermometer. Air-blast.Air-trap. Air-brick.Air-trunk. Air-carbureting.Air-tube for conveyance. Air-casing.Air-valve. Air-chamber fo
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 196 (search)
twenty-fourth instant with the Ironsides, Canonicus, Mahopac, Monadnock, Minnesota, Colorado, Mohican, Tuscarora, Wabash, Susquehanna, Brooklyn, Powhatan, Juniata, Seneca, Shenandoah, Pawtuxet, Ticonderoga, Mackinaw, Maumee, Yantic, Kansas, Iosco, Quaker City, Monticello, Rhode Island, Sassacus, Chippewa, Osceola, Tacony, Pontoosuc, Santiago de Cuba, Fort Jackson, and Vanderbilt, having a reserve of small vessels, consisting of the Aries, Howquah, Wilderness, Cherokee, A. D. Vance, Anemone, Aeolus, Gettysburg, Alabama, Keystone State, Banshee, Emma, Lillian, Tristram Shandy, Britannia, Governor Buckingham, and Nansemond. Previous to making the attack, a torpedo on a large scale, with an amount of powder on board, supposed to be sufficient to explode the powder magazines of the fort, was prepared with great care, and placed under the command of Commander A. C. Rhind, who had associated with him on this perilous service Lieutenant S. W. Preston, Second Assistant Engineer A. T. E. Mul
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 8: early professional life.—September, 1834, to December, 1837.—Age, 23-26. (search)
ot yet shown itself above the rolling sea of publications. I am looking out for it, and shall probably descry it on its first kissing the light. I omitted to send by my last letter and package the sheet from Sparks of Washington's letter to his nephew. It is not so much to the point as you hoped, I am inclined to think. You are in the midst of slavery, seated among its whirling eddies blown round as they are by the blasts of Governor McDuffie, fiercer than any from the old wind-bags of Aeolus. What think you of it? Should it longer exist? Is not emancipation practicable? We are becoming abolitionists at the North fast; the riots, the attempts to abridge the freedom of discussion, Governor McDuffie's message, and the conduct of the South generally have caused many to think favorably of immediate emancipation who never before inclined to it. I think your Stranger in America is not in the Boston market. A young friend of mine, a son of Professor Greenleaf, who read it on my
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 25: service for Crawford.—The Somers Mutiny.—The nation's duty as to slavery.—1843.—Age, 32. (search)
er was near, that he might be prepared for danger. I wish our country would cease to whet its tusks. The appropriations of the navy last year were nine million dollars. Imagine half—nay, a tithe—of this sum given annually to objects of humanity, education, and literature! I know of nothing in our Government that troubles me more than this thought. And who can talk lightly of war? One year of war would break open and let loose all the imprisoned winds now happily imprisoned by that great Aeolus,—Peace,—and let them rage over the world. But I prose, you will say. I have touched the chords, and you must listen to the tedious notes that ensue. I have nothing to say of gayeties: my last chronicle gave you a supper of them. It is Sunday night now. I have been for the first time at Mrs. Lee's, in Mount Vernon Street,—a resort of yours. Mrs. Otis and Mrs. Minot were there. A few days since, I passed an evening at Mrs. Bruen's. As I draw to the end of this sheet, so do I draw to