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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., chapter 24 (search)
be undeceived until the Lexington, Lt. G. M. Bache, got them under a raking fire of canister, which soon strewed the banks for a mile with their bodies. Porter reports their loss here at 500. Kilby Smith's land force of course cooperated with the gunboats in the contest. The lesson was so impressive that 5,000 Rebels, who were hastening to intercept the fleet at a point below, concluded, on hearing of it, to defer the enterprise. Meantime, our fleet pursued its arduous voyage till, at Compte, April 13. several being hopelessly aground, Porter hastened down to Gen. Banks, at Grand Ecore, six miles below; when troops were sent up to their relief; and they were brought down without further annoyance. At Grand Ecore, Porter found most of his larger vessels aground — several of them drawings a foot more water than there was on the bar at that point. While he was getting them over, the Eastport, which had gone eight miles farther down, was sunk ; and several days' hard work wer
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 137 (search)
ty of five thousand men who were marching to cut us off were persuaded to change their mind after hearing of the unfortunate termination to the first expedition. That same night I ordered the transports to proceed on, having placed the gunboats at a point where the rebels had a battery. All the transports were passed safely, the rebels not firing a shot in return to the many that were bursting over the hills. The next morning, the thirteenth instant, I followed down myself, and finding at Compte, six miles from Grand Ecore by land, that they had got aground, and would be some time in getting through, I proceeded down in this vessel to Grand Ecore, and got General Banks to send up troops enough to keep the guerrillas away from the river. We were fired on as usual after we started down, but when I had the troops sent up, the transports came along without any rouble. This has been an expedition where a great deal of labor has been expended, a great deal of individual bravery shown, a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 89 (search)
of the boats were laden with ammunition and ordnance stores, but the energy of the officers and men brought off every boat. The only loss in stores was a hundred sacks of oats, thrown overboard for the relief of a steamer aground. They reached Compte on the fourteenth, with a loss of one man killed and eighteen wounded, where they met a force from the army sent to their assistance, and reached Grand Ecore on the fifteenth without further obstruction. General T. Kilby Smith, to whose courtesyat Alexandria on the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth of April. In the twenty-four days intervening between the departure of the army from Alexandria and its return, the battles of Wilson's Farm, Sabine Cross-Roads, Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Hill, Compte, Monet's Bluff, and several combats in the neighborhood of Grand Ecore while we were in occupation of that point, had been fought. In every one of these engagements, except that of Sabine Cross-Roads, we had been successful. The failure to acco
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
originally derived from cinnabar, — a native sulphide of mercury, — but generally prepared artificially. It is made in large quantities in Europe and elsewhere, the processes varying somewhat in different places. The Chinese is the most esteemed and most expensive. Vernier. Ver′ni-er. A divided sliding scale used for measuring any portions of the space between two of the smallest divisions of a graduated instrument. It derives its name from Peter Vernier, a gentleman of Franche-Compte, who described it in a tract printed at Brussels in 1631. Also called nonius, from Peter Nunnez or Nonius, a Portuguese mathematician, born 1497, to whom its invention has been ascribed. The vernier is attached to astronomical and surveying instruments, to the barometer, and to the beam-compass and other scales for rectilinear measurements. That applied to the barometer, Fig. 6967, will illustrate its principle, a representing the mercurial column, b the vernier, and c the barometer-s<