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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. 7 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 6 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) 3 1 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 3 1 Browse Search
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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 3 (search)
chigan, which was 5.5 feet. There has not yet been time, he says, since the observations of the survey were commenced, for any general results to be deduced beyond what are perhaps now well known. Undoubtedly the most notable suggestion which he made and adopted for the survey consisted in a modification of the then existing method for the determination of longitudes by the electric telegraph, known as the American method. This method was invented by Professor Sears C. Walker. Professor Alexander D. Bache, superintendent of the Coast Survey, says in his report for 1853: He (Professor Walker) invented the application of the galvanic circuit to the recording of astronomical observation; which, under various ingenious modifications, is known as the American method. The American method invented by Professor Walker for the determination of longitude by star-signals, through the medium of the electric telegraph, consisted simply in the observation at two stations, east and west of eac
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317; II, 314. Appomattox C. H., April 9, 1865, II, 270. Archer, Jas. J., I, 294; II, 32, 46, 47, 59. Arden, Thomas B., I, 12. Arista, Gen., I, 33, 57, 60, 61, 65, 73, 80, 85, 88, 89, 93, 95, 97, 102, 105, 118, 119, 130. Armistead, Lewis A., I, 196; II, 360. Atocha, Señor, I, 185, 190. Atwell, Lieut., II, 99. Augur, C. C., II, 192, 211, 212, 216. Averill, W. W., I, 316, 361. Avery, Isaac E., II, 50, 92, 93. Ayres, Romeyn B., II, 64, 83, 86, 100. B Bache, Alexander D., I, 211. Bache, Hartman, I, 17, 30, 41, 53, 81, 86, 141, 164, 200, 202-204, 207, 210, 356; II, 164, 166, 302. Bache, Markoe, I, 346; II, 208, 257, 269, 278. Backus, Capt., I, 163. Baird, Capt., I, 220, 227. Baker, Edward D., I, 226. Banks, Nathaniel P., I, 225, 249, 250, 256, 262, 268-271, 273, 276; II, 144, 234, 239. Barclay, Clem., I, 339. Barksdale, W., II, 80, 85, 86, 88. Barlow, Francis C., II, 48, 49, 51, 65, 96, 113, 419. Barnes, James, II, 64, 83,