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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 23: destruction of the ram Arkansas.--capture of Galveston.--capture of the Harriet Lane.--sinking of the Hatteras.--attack on Baton Rouge.--Miscellaneous engagements of the gun-boats. (search)
cker; Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, N. W. Hammond; Acting-Masters, Geo. Taylor, C. M. Tinker and C. W. Wilson; Acting-Masters' Mates, Robert Finney and F. A. Leach; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, John E. Cobb; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, John F. Tarbell; Acting-Engineers, Alex. Auchinbeck, T. W. O. Conner, W. S. Harden, S. B. Runnels, A. B. Besse and J. C. Mockabee. Bark Arthur. Acting-Volunteer Lieutenant, Thomas F. Wade; Acting-Masters, W. O. Lunt and Albert Cook; Actting Masters' Mates, Wm. Barker, J. C. Constant and C. S. Bellows; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, O. D. Root; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, M. B. Osborn. Schooner Rachel Seaman. Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, Quincy A. Hooper; Acting-Ensign, Edwin Janorin; Acting-Master's Mate, Wm. H. Metz. Schooner Henry Janes. Acting-Volunteer-Lieutenant, Lewis W. Pennington. Schooner Orvetta. (bomb.) Acting-Master, F. E. Blanchard; Acting-Master's Mates, E. O. Adams and W. H. Monroe. Brig Bohio. Acting-Masters, Geo. W.
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 31: operations of Farragut's vessels on the coast of Texas, etc. (search)
the Union vessels, which kept up such an incessant and accurate fire on the enemy, that they were three times driven from their guns on that day. At night-fall the Union forces withdrew out of range. The next day the Confederates set fire to a steamer that had run aground and could not be moved. On August 20th, Lieutenant Kittredge went to work again on the enemy. He landed a 12-pounder howitzer under command of Master's Mate A. H. Reynolds, placed the schooner Reindeer, Master's Mate William Barker, in position to cover the landing party, and proceeded to enfilade the enemy's battery and pour shrapnel and canister into his flank. Master's Mate Reynolds moved up his howitzer to within musket range, and mowed the enemy down, the latter deployed 100 infantry to the right of the land party with the intention of flanking it, but they were soon scattered and driven off by the fire of the Reindeer and her consorts. The Confederates then charged the 12-pound howitzer with 250 men, a
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 44: battle of Mobile Bay. (search)
. Chadwick; Acting-Master, H. L. Sturgis; Acting-Ensigns, Edward Pendexter and Eugene Biondi; Acting-Master's Mates, Edward Hennessy and Francis Way; Engineers: Acting-Second Assistant, H. P. Powers; Acting-Third-Assistants, Chas. Haskins, John Dunlap and James Creery. Steamer Aroostook. Lieutenant-Commander, Chester Hatfield; Assistant Surgeon, H. W. Birkey; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, W. L. Pynchon; Acting-Ensigns, J. S. Russ and J. Griffin; Acting-Master's Mates, C. S. Bellows, Wim. Barker and Edw. Culbert; Engineers: Acting-Second-Assistant, J. C. Cree; Third-Assistants, James Entwistle, Samuel Gregg and Nathan Brown. Steamer Sciota. Lieutenant-Commander, George H. Perkins; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, E. P. Colby; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, C. H. Lockwood; Acting-Master, B. Van Voorhis; Acting-Ensigns, S. S. Beck, S. H. Bevins and Geo. W. Coffin; Acting-Master's Mates, W. A. Osborne, Charles Atkins and Richard Graham; Engineers: Second-Assistant, Horace McMurtrie; Third-
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 53: operations of the West Gulf Squadron in the latter part of 1864, and in 1865.--joint operations in Mobile Bay by Rear-Admiral Thatcher and General Canby. (search)
in Crissey; Acting-Ensigns, Sydney Hall, John Cannon and G. B. Foster; Acting-Master's Mate, J. N. Peabody; Engineers: Second-Assistants, T. W. Rae, M. W. Mather, Michael McLaughlin and Christopher Nulton; Third-Assistant, E. W. Clark; Acting-Third-Assistant, John H. Dee. Aroostook--Fourth-rate. Lieutenant-Commander, Joseph S. Skerrett; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, J. H. Richards; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, E. St. C. Clarke; Acting-Master, P. S. Borden; Acting-Ensigns, John Griffin and Wm. Barker; Acting-Master's Mate, Edward Culbert; Engineers: Second-Assistants, Samuel Gragg and James Entwistle; Acting-Third-Assistants, Nathan Brown, L. M. Reenstjerna and J. P. Somerby. Vincennes--Third-rate. Lieutenant-Commander, C. H. Greene; Assistant Surgeon, J. W. Newcomer; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, Samuel Jordan; Acting-Masters, A. E. Hunter and L. A. Brown; Acting-Ensign, Robert Henderson; Acting-Boatswain, John Smith; Acting-Gunner, Wm. Kneeland; Sailmaker, Geo. Thomas. Milwauk
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), Battle of Bull Run. (search)
Holland. Company G.--Wounded--First Lieut. Thomas S. Hamblin, in the leg. Privates Edward Sweeney, Benjamin Taylor, (all taken prisoners,) Henry Lansing. Missing--Henry Hedge, Thomas H. Kerr, Patrick McGinn, William H. Millett, Charles J. Rydecker, George Wright, (all supposed to have been taken prisoners.) Company H.--Killed--Private John Orman. Wounded--Norton Schermerhorn, slightly; Luthur L. Mills, both arms shot off, (a prisoner;) Hugh F. Dunnigan, in leg, (a prisoner;) William Barker, in leg; John Robson, in neck; John Hallam, slightly in head; Robert F. Robertson, badly bruised; Isaac Richie, slightly in leg; George B. Stevens, slightly in the back; Robert F. Robertson, badly bruised; Menzo W. Hoard, leg bruised; John Welsh, slightly in hand. Missing--Privates William Ross, John Lamphier, (supposed prisoners.) Company I.--Killed--William E. Straight, First Sergeant; Fourth Corporal, John McBride, and Charles H. Cooper. Wounded--Sylvanus Greer, Theodore Hami
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 6 (search)
e Seventy-first; took a short cut across the fields, when the cavalry galloped up and arrested me. They took me back to the hospital, where, during the confusion, I managed to conceal myself under a blanket, which was saturated with blood. Col. Barker, of the Virginia cavalry, then galloped up, and ordered all the unwounded prisoners to be driven to the Junction. I should think there were about 50 prisoners in all at that point. They left me, supposing I was wounded. A guard was left t Cornelius, Col. Martin's servant, who was wounded while assisting the colonel to dismount, also died. Mullen, Second Rhode Island, and two of the Seventy-first, whose names I do not know, were found dead next morning. Gen. Beauregard and Col. Barker came up about 7 1/2 o'clock that evening with 150 prisoners of different regiments, most of whom were Fire Zouaves. He stopped and inquired how our wounded were getting along, while the prisoners were driven towards the Junction by the cavalr
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 7 (search)
l this was taken, and against that the legion, as a forlorn hope, was led. In their first charge they had advanced to Henry's house, and were passing through the garden, when Col. Hampton was shot down. Without his further orders they were confused. Thus, Lieut.-Col. Johnson had fallen, and Capt. Conner, of the Washington Light Infantry, senior captain, led them back to form them; retiring under cover of the hill, they found the Seventeenth Virginia regiment, Col. Withers, and through Adjutant Barker, proposed that he should join them, which he did. They formed their line of battle; Capt. Conner led the legion. They tore down upon the enemy through a storm of balls. They reserved their fire until within a certain distance of the enemy. With a single volley they swept the guns of men and horses. The infantry sustaining them gave way before the charge of bayonets, and raising their colors over one, and not knowing in exactly what form to assert a priority of claim to the other, Ca
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
problem, using the gas to obtain a partial vacuum in a chamber; the exploding of the gas expelled the atmospheric air, and the gases suddenly condensing left the vessel nearly void. Huyghens adopted the same principle, but used a cylinder for his explosive chamber, the vacuum being utilized by the resulting atmospheric pressure upon the piston moving in the cylinder. Papin substituted a bell-valve over a hole in the middle of the piston for the leather tubes used by Huyghens. In 1791, Barker patented a gas-engine having the main features of the modern gas-engine; streams of carbureted hydrogen gas and atmospheric air being introduced through different conductors into a cylinder, in which the gas was exploded, the effect being to drive a piston. See gas-engine. Papin's apparatus consisted of a tube closed at bottom and having a valved piston below which a charge of gunpowder was exploded. The idea was, that the sudden blast of the explosion would expel the air, causing a v
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
with perspiration at the end of the hour's performance. This is one of the largest instruments in Europe, having 60 stops and 8,000 pipes. One at Seville has 5,300 pipes. The expenditure of wind varying greatly, according to the series of notes produced, the tension of the air supply was very different at different times, causing a variation in the purity of the tone and difficulty in opening the valves when under high pressure. These difficulties were remedied by the pneumatic lever of Barker, in which small subsidiary bellows operated by the movement of the key are employed to depress the wires by which the valves are opened. Where an extraordinarily large supply of air is required, it may be furnished by blowers or bellows operated by hydraulic or steam power. Fig. 3426 illustrates the blowing-engine employed for the great organ at the Hall of Arts, South Kensington, London, England. It is a vertical beam-engine, having two steam cylinders of 7 inches diameter and 24 inche
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
of a complete scene, such as that of London as viewed from a central point, by Barker, from the summit of St. Paul's, or made continuous upon an unrolling canvas, as, is, or should be, a circular view. The invention of the panorama is due to Barker, a portrait-painter of Edinburgh, who obtained a patent for his invention in 17nce, 1799. In 1821, during the absence for repairs of the cross of St. Paul's, Barker erected an observatory at that giddy hight, and during the summer completed hisy a pipe c at bottom. Pneu-mat′ic Le′ver. （Music.) A device invented by Barker of Bath, England, in which the elasticity of the air itself is made to overcomeaeolipile of Hero is substantially analogous to the water-wheel of the worthy Dr. Barker, who left us a century back or thereabout, except that the fluid agent of oneof action from the aeolipile of Hero, 150 B. C., or the reaction water-wheel of Barker, say A. D. 1740. We are much indebted to the worthy Otto Guericke, a magistr<
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