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Emil Schalk, A. O., The Art of War written expressly for and dedicated to the U.S. Volunteer Army., Example of a battle of the offensive defense: battle of Austerlitz, December 2, 1805. (search)
s, reduced the army present at the battle to about 70,000 men. Army of Napoleon.  Battal's.Squad's.Guns.Men. Guard24329618,400 Army corps:--   1st. Count Erlon32214620,564   2d. Count Reille 40 15 46 23,926   6th. Count Lobau 18   32 10,932 Cavalry   87 48 10,000    11415526883,822 Of these 83,822 men, only about 68,000 to 70,000 were present at the battle of Waterloo ; the remainder represents the loss in the battles of Ligny and Quatre-Bras, besides the division of Girard, which was with the army of Marshal Grouchy. Several battalions, which had experienced heavy losses on the 16th, were consolidated; the number of battalions present was, therefore, only 97. The Prussian army, under the command of Marshal Bliicher, assembled at Wavre on consisting of-- Four Army Corps:--  Battal's.Squad's.Batt's.Men. 1st. Gen. Ziethen 34 32 12 30,381 2d. Gen Pirsch 36 36 10 31,758 3d. Gen. Thielman 30 34 6 23,980 4th. Gen. Bulow 36 43 11 30,328    13
G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 2: (search)
ion that it has resulted so fortunately. Of Captain McClellan the introduction to the Report speaks thus:--The astronomical observations were made by Captain George B. McClellan, of the Engineer Corps, who, in addition to the duties properly pertaining to his department, performed those of quartermaster and commissary to the command. An interesting collection of reptiles and other specimens, in alcohol, was also made under his superintendence, and put into the hands of Professors Baird and Girard, of the Smithsonian Institution, whose reports will be found in the appendix. For these and many other important services, as well as for his prompt and efficient co-operation in whatever was necessary for the successful accomplishment of the design of the expedition, I take this opportunity of tendering my warmest acknowledgments. The party were: received with peculiar warmth of welcome by the, garrison at Fort Arbuckle; for they were supposed to have been, all massacred by the Comanche
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 247 (search)
hmondCapt. MaloyNew Bedford. Robin HoodCapt. SkinnerNew London. TenedosCapt. SissonNew London. William LeeCapt. LakeNew Bedford. They range from two hundred and seventy-five to five hundred tons, are all old whalers, heavily loaded with large blocks of granite, and cost the Government from two thousand five hundred dollars to five thousand dollars each. Some of them were once famous ships; the Archer, for instance, the Kensington, the Rebecca Simms, and the Robin Hood, once owned by Girard. The Tenedos is one of the oldest, if I may trust the mate of the Cahawba, who confidentially informed me that her keel was laid when Adam was an oakum-boy; and if this be correct, one or two must date still further back to the period of mastodon and saurian. With this fleet go the Cahawba, Philadelphia, and Ericsson, to help them along and assist at the sinking. The Mohican, Capt. Godon; Ottawa, Capt. Stevens, and Pocahontas, Capt. Balch, are convoy to the whole, and if Mr. Commodore T
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 24 (search)
-Killed, 1 officer; wounded, 4 officers and 8 privates; 1 missing. Thirteenth Louisiana.--Wounded, 9 officers and 6 privates; 1 missing. Florida and C. G. Battery.--Wounded, 2 officers and 6 privates; 1 missing. Thirty-seventh Mississippi.--Wounded, 1 officer and 2 privates, accidentally. Twentieth Louisiana.--Wounded, 1 officer. and 4 privates. Hodgson's Battery.--Wounded, 1 private. Ducabel's Battery.--Wounded, 1 private. Houton's Battery.--Wounded, 1 private. First Arkansas.--Wounded, 1 officer and 3 privates. Recapitulation.--Killed, 1 officer and 6 privates; wounded, 13 officers and 96 privates; 3 missing. Among the wounded were Lieut.-Col. Girard, who fell while gallantly leading his regiment, struck in the thigh with a Minie ball; Lieuts. Smith, McGowan, and Caldwell, of the Twenty-fifth Louisiana, were also wounded. Our wounded are all doing well. There are three thousand sick soldiers in the hospitals at Lynchburgh. --Memphis Appeal, May 17.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
Synclinal. Anti-friction bearing. Anti-fric′tion Bear′ing. A rolling bearing for an axle or gudgeon. The intention is that the parts primarily in contact shall not rub against each other, but move in unison. In one form the roller surfaces impinge upon the surfaces of the axle and its box (Fig. 261); in another form the rollers are on axles (see Fig. 263). A familiar illustration is also found in the improved form of hanging grindstones (see Fig. 265). The Palier glissant, of Girard, consists of a journal box whose lower part is grooved and has an aperture communicating with a pipe through which water under a heavy pressure is introduced beneath the journal. The effect of this is to slightly lift the journal, allowing a very thin film of water to escape, which effectually lubricates the bearing, entirely preventing contact of the metallic surfaces. This is analogous to the hydraulic pivot for turbine wheels, invented by the same engineer, in which the weight of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), H. (search)
ter of a number of hose-pipes into one stream which may be directed in one jet of from 4 to 7 inches in diameter upon a bank at a distance of 200 feet, if necessary to stand at that distance to avoid caving. Hy-drau′li-con. （Music.) A water-organ. This form was known to the Alexandrian Greeks in the time of Hero, 150 B. C. It is supposed that air was forced by means of water. If so, it was rather a water-bellows. See organ. Hy-drau′lic Piv′ot. （Machinery.) A contrivance of Girard by which a film or body of water is introduced below the end of a vertical axis to bear the weight thereof, and prevent the actual friction of the axis on its step. The hydraulic pivot, or liquid bearing, for stepping vertical shafts, is described in Bramah's planing-machine, English patent, 1802. See Journalbearing; palier-glissant. Hy-drau′lic Plat′form-lift. （Hoisting.) A form of hoisting-apparatus (L, page 1157) in which the small pump a, operated by the lever b, is
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 30: Appearance—manners—habits. (search)
s, in a word, another man. He is a stranger in his father's house. He comes back to town, and, as years roll on, he hardens and sharpens into the finished citizen. It is so with most, but not with all. Some men there are—very few, yet some—who resist effectually, and to the last, the assimilating influence of cities. These are the oddities, the stared—at, the men of whom anecdotes are told. They are generally either much wiser, or else much more nearly mad than their fellow-citizens. Girard, the tough, sensible, benevolent banker of Philadelphia was an oddity; and so was that other Philadelphian who placed all his hopes of distinction upon his persistence in the practice of not wearing a hat. Franklin was an oddity; and so was he who, says popular tradition, took his nightly repose in a lime-kiln, and never used a clothes-brush. It is best, perhaps, not to be odd; and, certainly, the wisest man need not be. The saying of Goethe on this subject seems good and commendable, that <
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
iment, and the new regiment was known as the Sixty-second Alabama. Others, under Col. Olin F. Rice, of the Second reserve regiment, were known as the Sixty-third. The First battalion, also called the Fourth reserve regiment, was consolidated with the Third and Fourth battalions under Lieut.-Col. E. M. Underhill, and called the Sixty-fifth Alabama; it was employed mainly in the defenses of Mobile, though a detachment was sent to Montgomery in April, 1865, and retired before Wilson's army to Girard, where it fought with severe loss and was captured. The Sixty-second and Sixty-third fought in General Thomas' brigade at Fort Gaines and Spanish Fort, losing a large number in killed and wounded. Relieved at Spanish Fort by Holtzclaw's brigade, they were sent to Blakely, where, after enduring the privations and perils of the siege of Blakely, they were captured, and were exchanged a few days before the final surrender of the department of the Gulf. Captain Johnson, of the Sixty-third, was
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5: (search)
d for more than a year in Quarles', Clanton's, Page's, Patton's and Thomas' brigades, in the vicinity of Pensacola and the bay forts. In the fall of 1864, it reported to General Forrest at Corinth, and took part in the raid on Johnsonville and the fighting as Hood moved toward Nashville. It suffered severely at this time, especially in the night attack on Brentwood. The regiment, after recruiting, joined General Buford at Montevallo in March, 1865; confronted Wilson's corps from Benton to Girard, and took part in the last fighting of the war, surrendering at Gainesville, May 14, 1865. Col. Joseph Hodgson led the regiment throughout the war, though detachments were at various times commanded with brilliant success by Maj. Turner Clanton, Jr., Captain Ledyard, and others. Capt. Charles P. Storrs was wounded at Columbia; Adjt. William T. Charles was captured at one time, but escaped. Colonel Hodgson, after the close of the war, devoted himself to journalism, in which he became quite
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], $40 reward. (search)
ative to the number of the enemy engaged at Hainesville on Monday, has been sadly perverted by the telegraphic operators. His letter-book shows that he wrote two thousand and not ten thousand. The 8th Pennsylvania regiment, Col. Emly commanding, reached here to-day. Williamsport is guarded by the 4th Connections Regiment. Martinsburg, Saturday, July 6--There is no movement as yet toward Winchester.--Some firing was exchanged between the pick. ets of the 7th Regiment and Captain Girard's company yesterday, which resulted in the retreat of the Confederates. It is believed that some were wounded. No hostile advance has yet been made by the enemy. Capture — another alarm, &c. Washington, Saturday afternoon.--Two of the Federal pickets were captured this morning at the house of a man named Small, about two and a half miles below here. They were surrounded by the Confederate cavalry. Their capture was entirely owing to their imprudence in venturing beyond their
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