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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 17 (search)
t, Albemarle Sound, May 2, 1864. the steamers will advance in the third order of steaming, the Miami leading the second line of steamers. Miami,Mattabesett, Ceres,Sassacus, Commodore Hull,Wyalusing, Seymour,Whitehead. The proposed plan of attack will be, for the large vessels to pass as close as possible to the ram, w Sassacus, Wyalusing, and Whitehead following in first order of steaming. At forty-five minutes past three made signal, ram is out; the Miami, Commodore Hull, and Ceres falling into position as we came up on port quarter, thus forming the third order, as directed. At twenty minutes past four Miami made signal, the enemy is retreawing report of the engagement with the rebel iron-clad ram Albemarle, and Bombshell. Yesterday, at one P. M., I got under way, in company with the Commodore Hull, Ceres, and army transport Trumpeter, and proceeded from our picket station, off Edenton Bay, across to the mouth of the Roanoke, for the purpose of putting down torpedoe
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
on which this history has been written. In imitation of Horace, she recounts the reasons for his coming. The poem is too long to be extracted here; so we give only a part:-- From the soft shades and from the balmy sweets Of Medford's flowery vales and green retreats, Your absent Delia to her father sends, And prays to see him ere the summer ends. Now, while the earth's with beauteous verdure dyed, And Flora paints the meads in all her pride; While laden trees Pomonia's bounty own, And Ceres' treasures do the fields adorn; From the thick smokes and noisy town, oh, come, And in these plains a while forget your home. But though rich dainties never spread my board, Nor my cool vaults Calabrian wines afford; Yet what is neat and wholesome I can spread,-- My good, fat bacon, and our homely bread, With which my healthful family is fed; Milk from the cow, and butter newly churned; And new, fresh cheese, with curds and cream just turned. For a dessert, upon my table's seen The golden ap
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
& H. EwellJ. T. Bacon & SonBoston333 359 BrigPrairieT. Magoun'sH. EwellT. Magoun & SonMedford189 3601846ShipDolphinS. Lapham'sS. LaphamMackey & CoolidgeMedford500 361 ShipGeorge H. HopleyJ. Stetson'sJ. StetsonBelm and othersCharleston, S. C.590 362 BarkClementP. Curtis'sP. CurtisSeth RyderChatham203 363 BarkMaryP. Curtis'sP. CurtisZimsy Whelden 205 364 ShipBostonP. Curtis'sP. CurtisWilliam Perkins & Co.Boston663 1/2 365 ShipAbby PrattP. Curtis'sP. CurtisGeorge PrattBoston687 366 BarkCeresJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisJ. A. McGaw & LincolnBoston387 367 ShipAlabamaJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisJ. H. ShawNantucket347 368 ShipMontereyJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisWilliam LincolnBoston400 369 BarkEdwinJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisWales & Co.Boston350 370 BarkHollanderT. Magoun'sH. EwellBates & Co.Boston304 371 BrigAlertT. Magoun'sH. EwellW. F. Wild & Co.Boston172 372 Sch.EugeneT. Magoun'sH. EwellParker, Cook, and othersProvincetown100 373 BrigPaulinaT. Magoun'sH. EwellE. Flinn and
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil War with losses on both sides December, 1860-August, 1862 (search)
25th and 27th Mass., 10th Conn., 9th, 51st, and 53d N. Y., 9th N. J., 51st Pa., 4th and 5th R. I., U. S. Gunboats Southfield, Delaware, Stars and Stripes, Louisiana, Hetzel, Commodore Perry, Underwriter, Valley City, Commodore Barney, Hunchback, Ceres, Putnam, Morse, Lockwood, Seymour, Granite, Brinker, Whitehead, Shawseen, Pickett, Pioneer, Hussar, Vidette, Chasseur. Confed., 2d, 7th, 8th, 17th, 19th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 31st, 33d, 35th, 37th, 46th, 59th N. C., Brem's, Latham's, Whitehurst's0 wounded. Confed. 16 killed, 39 wounded, 2,527 taken prisoners. February 10, 1862: Elizabeth City, or Cobb's Point, N. C. Union, Gunboats Delaware, Underwriter, Louisiana, Seymour, Hetzel, Shawseen, Valley City, Putnam, Commodore Perry, Ceres, Morse, Whitehead, and Brinker. Confed., Mosquito fleet commanded by Commodore W. F. Lynch, and comprising the vessels engaged at Roanoke Island on the 8th, except the Curlew. Losses: Union 3 killed. February 13, 1862: Bloomery Gap, V
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engagements of the Civil war: with losses on both sides: May, 1864--June, 1865 (search)
Battery; Confed., Troops of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston's command. Losses: Union, 5 killed, 20 wounded. May 5-17, 1864: Kautz's Cavalry raid from Suffolk to city Point, Va. Union, 5th and 11th Pa. Cav., 3d N. Y. Cav., 1st D. C. Cav., 1 section 4th Wis. Battery; Confed., Holcombe Legion, detachment 59th Va. and Home Guards. Losses: Union, 14 killed, 60 wounded, 27 missing; Confed., (about) 180 wounded and captured. May 5, 1864: Roanoke River, N. C. Union, gunboats, Ceres, Commodore Hull, Mattabesett, Sassacus, Seymour, Wyalusing, Miami, and Whitehead. Confed., iron-clad ram Albemarle. Losses: Union, 5 killed, 26 wounded; Confed., 57 captured. May 5, 1864: Dunn's Bayou, Red River, La. Union, 56th Ohio, gunboats Signal, Covington, and transport Warner. Confed., Gen. Richard Taylor's command on shore. Losses: Union, 35 killed, 65 wounded, 150 missing; Con fed. No record found. May 5-7, 1864: Wilderness, Va. Union, Forces command
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Palmer, Erastus 1817- (search)
Palmer, Erastus 1817- Dow, sculptor; born in Pompey, Onondaga co., N. Y., April 2, 1817. Until he was twenty-nine years of age he was a carpenter, when he began cameo-cutting for jewelry, which was then fashionable. This business injured his eyesight, and he attempted sculpture, at which he succeeded at the age of thirty-five. His first work in marble was an ideal bust of the infant Ceres, which was exhibited at the Academy of Design, New York. It was followed by two exquisite bas-reliefs representing the morning and evening star. Mr. Palmer's works in bas-relief and statuary are highly esteemed. He produced more than 100 works in marble. His Angel of the resurrection, at the entrance to the Rural Cemetery at Albany, and The White captive, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, command the highest admiration. He went to Europe for the first time in 1873, and in 1873-74 completed a statue of Robert R. Livingston for the national Capitol.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
f Caesar and Cicero. Such mills were driven by the current of the Tiber a little before the time of Augustus. It is not certain that these were grain-mills. Windmills were introduced from Greece by one Paulo, and were used for grinding grain, if we may credit Pomponius Sabinus. Antipater, time of Cicero, refers distinctly to the use of water-mills in an epigram: — Cease now your work, ye maids, ye who labored in the mill; sleep now, and let the birds sing to the ruddy morning, for Ceres has commanded the waternymphs to perform your task; these, obedient to her call, throw themselves on the wheel, force round the axle-tree, and by these means the heavy mill. Palladius advises the erection of water-mills on estates where streams afford the opportunity of saving manual labor in grinding grain. Public mills were established in Rome A. D. 398, and were driven by the surplus of water brought to Rome by her splendid aqueducts. They were principally at the foot of Mount Jani
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
t in that queer old prong of Britain. Occasional notices are found among the Greek and Roman writers of the keys of their times; as when Aratus compares the constellation of Cassiopeia to a Roman key, having a curved stem and a handle shaped like the south stars of the group. Ariston also refers to their deeply bent stems, and Eustathius compares them to sickles; and indeed some were so large that they might fairly be carried over the shoulders, as described by Callimachus in his Hymn to Ceres, where he represents the priestess of Nicippe carrying her key in that manner. Homer's allusion to the lock on the wardrobe of Penelope is thus rendered by Pope:— A brazen key she held, the handle turned, With steel and polished ivory adorned. The bolt, obedient to the silken string, Forsakes the staple as she pulls the ring; The wards, respondent to the key, turn round, The bars fly back, the flying valves resound; Loud as a bull makes hill and valley ring, So roared the lock when i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
in each hand, and a harrow slung over the shoulder by a cord. See harrow Osiris taught the way and manner of tillage and good management of the fruits of the earth. Isis found out the way of cultivating wheat and barley, which before grew here and there in the fields, among the common herbs and grass, and the use of them was unknown. — Diodorus Siculus. The early deifications were many of them of individuals who had opened up sources of agricultural prosperity. Isis was the Greek Ceres; Osiris became Bacchus, the Father Liber of the erudite Pliny The great efficiency of the engineering works believed to have been executed by Sesostris, about 1800 B. C., indicates a great progress in the agriculture to which this scheme of irrigation was subservient. The alluvium of the valley of the Nile, however, never was plowed in the manner we consider essential to good husbandry on our soils. Some of the Egyptians lightly run over the surface of the earth with a plow, after t
L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, chapter 3.57 (search)
Of course, in this hand-to-hand fight between the Sassacus and Albemarle, little aid could be rendered, at close quarters, by the former's consorts, as such aid would have merely endangered her safety. Yet, the Wyalusing, the Mattabesett and the Miami did effective service, as opportunity offered, and the little Whitehead, during the fiercest of the fight, steamed alongside of the iron monster, and delivered shot after shot from her one hundred pounder Parrott gun. The Commodore hull and Ceres were also gallantly handled, and rendered all the assistance in their power. But the main brunt of this novel and unequal engagement fell upon the Sassacus, an inland light draught river steamer. The result, so contrary to all preconceived ideas of iron-clad invincibility, was eminently gratifying. The rebel gunboat Bombshell, with four rifled guns and a large supply of ammunition, was captured, with all her officers and crew, and the Albemarle, which was on her way to Newbern to form a
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