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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., McClellan organizing the grand Army. (search)
he Stars and Stripes. . . . Two men at Washington comprehended from the first the danger to their country of the inconsiderate act of Wilkes: these were Seward and McClellan. The former, burdened with an immense responsibility, patriotically dissimulated his opinion with extraordinary finesse; he permitted the excitement to spend itself, and, thanks to the slowness of communication with England, gained time enough Seward's letter consenting to the return of the Commissioners bears date of Dee. 2 6, 18 61.--Editors. to extricate his Government at the critical juncture, by enveloping the decision he had succeeded in extorting from the powers that be in a specious web of plausibilities, calculated to sweeten the bitterness caused at home by England's exactions, and at the same time to satisfy her just demands. He succeeded in sparing his country and the world the horrors of a war the results of which could hardly be imagined. . . . It was not for McClellan to implicate himself in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hartranft, John Frederick 1830-1889 (search)
Hartranft, John Frederick 1830-1889 Military officer; born in New Hanover, Montgomery co., Pa., Dee. 16, 1830; graduated at Union College in 1853, and admitted to the bar in 1859. He commanded the 4th Pennsylvania (three months) regiment; then organized the 51st Pennsylvania Regiment, and as its colonel accompanied Burnside's expedition to North Carolina early in 1862. He was in all the operations of that corps (the 9th), and was made brigadier-general in May, 1864. At Antietam he led the famous charge that carried the lower bridge (see Antietam, battle of), and was in command of the division of the 9th Corps that gallantly recaptured Fort Steadman, before Petersburg, in March, 1865, for which he was brevetted majorgeneral. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania in 1872 and 1875; pursued a vigorous policy during the great railroad strikes in July, 1877; was appointed major-general commanding the State militia in 1879; and was afterwards postmaster and collector of the port i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
in salt water, while the Dead Sea would be somewhat freshened. Aqueducts with cast-iron beds, supported by arches and piers, were introduced by Telford, 1793– 1829, in the construction of several canals; the Shrewsbury, and the Ellesmere and Chester, for instance. The aqueduct over the Ceirog is 710 feet in length, and the water surface 70 feet above the level of the river; ten arches have each 40 feet span. The breadth of the top is 22 feet; breadth of water, 11 feet; depth, 5 feet. Dee aqueduct. The stone piers are 33 feet in depth and 13 in thickness; the spandrels have longitudinal walls, supporting the cast-iron plates which form the bottom of the canal. The plates have flanges on their edges, and are united by means of nuts and screws. The sides of the canal are built of cut-stone upon the cast-iron bed; they are 5 1/2 feet thick on each side, and the stone is backed with hard-burned brick laid in cement. The sides have iron railings. It was completed in 1801
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
naked lens for a time that the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. Frascatoro, who died in 1553, states the matter properly: If any one will look through two lenses, one placed over the other, he will see everything much larger and clearer. J. Baptista Porta (about 1560) states: If you know how to combine a convex and a concave glass, one of each sort, you will see, far or near, objects larger and clearer. He is believed to have invented the camera-obscura about this time. Dr. Dee says (1570) that perspective glasses will enable a commander to ascertain the strength of an enemy's forces; referring apparently to an optical instrument then in use. Leonard Digges (about 1571) appears to have been able, by proportional glasses duly situate, to discover things afar off, read letters and inscriptions on coins at a distance, and tell what was passing seven miles off. Such is the claim in his son's book, second edition, published in 1591. Jansen (about 1608), a spectac
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
onet, settled two feet; Waterloo Bridge but five inches. The spandrels are afterward built up, the spaces between the arches filled in, the roadway and parapet completed. See arch; centering; bridge. The following table embodies some facts in relation to a number of the most remarkable stone bridges in the world. Widest Arch. Name.River.Place.Number of Arches.Span.Rise.Curve.Architect.Date. Ft. In.Ft. In. Washington AqueductCabin John CreekMaryland1220 090 0SegmentMeigs1861 ChesterDeeChester200 042 0SegmentHarrison1820 Vielle BriondeAllierBrionde1183 370 3SegmentGrennier1454 UlmDanubeUlm181 222 3SegmentWiebeking1806 Castle VecchioAdigeVerona159 1055 3EllipseUnknown1354 LavourAgontLavour159 1064 8EllipseSager1775 LondonThamesLondon5152 029 6EllipseRennie1832 ClaixDracGrenoble150 262 3SegmentUnknown1611 AlmaSeineParis141 028 0EllipseDe la Gourniere1857 Pont y PryddTaafGlamorgan1140 035 0SegmentEdwards1755 NeuillySeineNear Paris5127 1031 10EllipsePeronnet1774 Mantes
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
rough a tube, A. D. 1000. He derived it from his tutors at Cordova, and they, no doubt, from the Alexandrian savans. In both places, celestial observations were made through long tubes with object and ocular diopters at the respective ends. No lenses as yet. Who was the first discoverer of the telescope cannot now be determined. Spectacles were known in the thirteenth century. Roger Bacon employs some expressions indicative of a knowledge of the effect of the combination of lenses. Dr. Dee mentions (1570) that perspective glasses will enable a commander to ascertain the strength of an enemy's forces, referring apparently to an optical instrument then in use. Baptista Porta said: If you properly combine a concave and a convex lens, you will see distant and near objects larger and clearer. Digges states that by an arrangement of mirrors and transparent glasses the image of a small object at a distance may be so augmented as to be brought apparently near to the observer.
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Chapter 17: London again.—characters of judges.—Oxford.—Cambridge— November and December, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
n a late New York Mirror, of Lord Durham. Marryat says that when Willis looked over his spoon, one spoon looked over another. Lady Blessington says it is all false, as also does Fonblanque, who was at the dinner. I have seen Disraeli. . . . Captain Marryat has returned full of blood and fury. He will probably write a book; if he does, he will show us no mercy. He says there is nobody in Congress worth any thing but Webster and Adams. Miss Martineau is diligently engaged on her novel, Dee<*>orook. which will be published in February or March. She has been exerting herself very much, and seems confident of no ordinary success. If she succeeds, she intends to follow it up by others. I left off my sketch at Milton without giving you my Christmas Day. In the forenoon, Whewell and I went to the Minster at Peterborough, where the church service is chanted. In the afternoon I read some of the manuscripts of Burke; after dinner, there were about thirty musicians who came from P
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, Athenaeum Club, Dec. 28, 1838. (search)
n a late New York Mirror, of Lord Durham. Marryat says that when Willis looked over his spoon, one spoon looked over another. Lady Blessington says it is all false, as also does Fonblanque, who was at the dinner. I have seen Disraeli. . . . Captain Marryat has returned full of blood and fury. He will probably write a book; if he does, he will show us no mercy. He says there is nobody in Congress worth any thing but Webster and Adams. Miss Martineau is diligently engaged on her novel, Dee<*>orook. which will be published in February or March. She has been exerting herself very much, and seems confident of no ordinary success. If she succeeds, she intends to follow it up by others. I left off my sketch at Milton without giving you my Christmas Day. In the forenoon, Whewell and I went to the Minster at Peterborough, where the church service is chanted. In the afternoon I read some of the manuscripts of Burke; after dinner, there were about thirty musicians who came from P
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
v. 1723; Elizabeth, prob. d. young; Walter (the last five were bap. 17 Jan. 1696-7); John, b. 2 Oct. 1698; Jonathan, b. 6 Dee. 1707. Samuel the f. d. 8 Jan. 1717-18, a. 64; his w. Hannah d. 9 Oct. 1732, a. 66. 3. John, s. of John (1), was a sho4; Abigail, b. 6 Oct. 1736; Lucy, b. 12 Mar. 1738-9, m. Edward Wilson 23 Nov. 1758; Sarah, b. 6 June 1741; Ebenezer, b. 22 Dee. 1743; William, b. 20 Ap. 1746; Thomas, b. 15 July 1748, m. Susanna Hill 11 July 1771; Aaron, b. 16 Feb. 1750-51; John, b.and he brought with him his 2d w. Elizabeth, dau. of Godfrey Bosville, Esq. (m. 4 June 1735), by whom he had Elizabeth, b. Dee. 1636; Margaret, b. Sept 1638. Roger the f. purchased the Gov. Dudley estate, at the N. W. corner of Dunster and South sand had Mary, b. 29 Ap. 1752, m. Silas Robbins 7 May 1772; Nathaniel, b. 14 Dec. 1755; John, b. 13 Ap. 1759; Susanna, b. 2 Dee. 1760, m. Major John Palmer 28 Nov. 1781 and d. Dec. 1837, a. 77; the Town Record says 79, but wrongly, unless I mistake t
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, C. (search)
homestead. He was elected Deacon of the Church 22 Mar. 1705; and was a Selectman 12 years, from 1704 to 1716. He m. Hannah, dau. of Deac. Walter Hastings, 4 Dec. 1682, and had Hannah, b. 23 Dec. 1683, m. Edmund Frost 1 Feb. 1710-11; Lydia, b. 9 Mar. 1684-5, m. Jona. Gove 26 Dec. 1706; Sarah, m. Ephraim Frost, Jr., 9 Sept. 1714; Samuel; Mary, m. Nathaniel Goddard 26 Nov. 1723; Elizabeth, prob. d. young; Walter (the last five were bap. 17 Jan. 1696-7); John, b. 2 Oct. 1698; Jonathan, b. 6 Dee. 1707. Samuel the f. d. 8 Jan. 1717-18, a. 64; his w. Hannah d. 9 Oct. 1732, a. 66. 3. John, s. of John (1), was a shoemaker. He resided on the easterly side of North Avenue; his estate adjoined that of his father, and was formerly owned by George Bowers. He m. Elizabeth, dau. of Wm. Bordman, 28 Ap. 1686; she d. 15 Nov. 1713 (G. S. 1714), and he m. Sarah Hancock 21 June 1720. His children were John, bap. 3 July 1698; Elizabeth, bap. 3 July 1698; Elizabeth, b. 9 May 1699, m. Samuel Andr
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