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The Daily Dispatch: May 2, 1864., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 2 0 Browse Search
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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 182 (search)
Division, was there, General Cruft having communicated with Davis' division, of Palmer's corps, with the Second and Third brigades of his division, General Stanley swinging around to Tunnel Hill range, and gained possession of the northern extremity of it and then advanced toward the tunnel. At 9.20, while at Cruft's headquarters, we caught a rebel signal message stating that- Fighting on Tunnel Hill; skirmishing on right of the tunnel. No news from Cleveland. Can't see station. Baine. Skirmishing continued in front of Cruft's division. The enemy opened artillery fire on Davis; did not amount to much. At 10 went to join General Stanley, ascending the north end of Tunnel Hill. General Stanley met no opposition, except from skirmishers, the enemy's cavalry having fled upon his approach. Joined General Stanley just as he took the hill, at the tunnel. It was taken at 11 a. m. Sent General Thomas a note informing him of this fact. Fine view of Buzzard Roost and Rocky Fa
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative, Chapter 1: from the U. S.A. Into the C. S.A. (search)
out to that section. Within two years there was a considerable city there, with theatres and daily papers. I remained at West Point a year as Assistant Instructor in Engineering, and during the summer of 1859 was put in charge of the Department of Fencing and Target Practice. In Oct., 1859, I was assigned to special duty with Assistant-Surgeon A. J. Myer to experiment with a system of military signals which he had devised and offered to the War Department. It was based upon the use of Baine's telegraphic alphabet, which formed the letters by the use of only two elements — dot and dash. The Morse alphabet uses four—dot, short dash, long dash, and interval between dashes. Myer had originally suggested its use as a language for the deaf and dumb, when he was a medical student. By the waving of anything to the left for dot, and to the right for dash, any letter could be indicated by a few waves. For three months we experimented with flags, torches, and glasses between Fort Ha
The Daily Dispatch: January 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], Suicide of a Minister. (search)
Suicide of a Minister. --Rev. Mr. Baine, a Baptist clergyman, committed suicide at Citronville, Ala., on Thursday last, by taking strychnine. He was a native of England, and had long been acting as a Missionary of the Alabama Missionary Association.
The Daily Dispatch: May 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Orders in a subjugated District — an official picture of life under the enemy. (search)
s, A A G. Headquarters 18th Army Corps,Department of Va and North Carolina,Fortress Monroe, Va, Feb. 18, 1864. Special Orders, No. 49. VII. Geo M Baine, senior of that name, late cashier of the Portsmouth Savings Fund Society, and formerly a minister of the Gospel, having had in his charge over forty-three thousand doned by him as to the consequences of declining to answer, and putting at contempt the authority of the United States, and after full deliberation the said George M Baine, the senior of that name, still refusing to answer the question put to him in that behalf, or to disclose his accomplices, and no where putting it upon the ground the questions concerning the robbery of the funds of the said Bank. No further punishment is put upon him in consideration of his age. The said George M Baine will stand committed to the guard-house until he is removed on board the transport ship to be conveyed to Fort Hatteras, is execution of this order. By command o