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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 36: General Johnston in the grave. (search)
tter from General Johnston. Mr. Smith, of Virginia, offered the following resolution: Resolved, That this House, from respect to the memory of General Albert Sidney Johnston, and the officers and men who have fallen in the defense of their country in the hour of a great and glorious victory over our ruthless enemy, do now adjourn. This resolution was adopted without opposition, and the House adjourned. Tuesday, April 8, 1862. The Senate met at eleven o'clock. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Kepler, of the Episcopal Church. Mr. Haynes, of Tennessee, moved that the resolution touching the victory near Corinth, and lamenting the death of Albert Sidney Johnston, be taken up, so that he could offer resolutions in lieu. Resolutions were then presented by the Senator, expressive of the joy of Congress on hearing of the great victory of our army in Tennessee, paying a glowing tribute of respect to the memory of the commander-in-chief, and conveying the thanks of Congress to Genera
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)
eSprague & James'sJohn TaylorNathaniel FrancisBoston430 377 ShipOrissaSprague & James'sJohn TaylorAtkinson & RollinsBoston530 3781847ShipKate HoweSprague & James'sJohn TaylorBramhall & HoweBoston608 379 BarkJosiah QuincySprague & James'sJ. T. FosterBramhall & HoweBoston480 380 ShipGertrudeSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterHussey & MurrayNew York800 381 BarkNashuaSprague & James'sJ. T. FosterJ. H. PearsonBoston200 382 BarkHannah ThorntonJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisJ. A. McGawBoston385 383 BarkKeplerJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisParsons & HoughBoston425 384 BarkSherwoodJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisWilliam LincolnBoston438 385 Sch.Joshua HamblenJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisThomas HopkinsChatham70 386 ShipHelen McGawJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisJ. A. McGawBoston590 387 ShipNiobeP. Curtis'sP. CurtisGeorge PrattBoston712 388 ShipIndependenceP. Curtis'sP. CurtisA. HemenwayBoston864 389 ShipR. C. WinthropP. Curtis'sP. CurtisB. BangsBoston802 390 ShipHorsburghT. Magoun'sHayden & CudworthD. C. B
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The death of Major-General J. E. B. Stuart. (search)
nemy, and familiar as a household word in two continents, is dead — struck down by a bullet from the foe, and the whole Confederacy mourns him. He breathed out his gallant spirit resignedly, and in the full possession of all his remarkable faculties of mind and body, at twenty-two minutes to eight o'clock Thursday night, at the residence of Dr. Brewer, a relative, on Grace street, in the presence of Drs. Brewer, Garnett, Gibson, and Fontaine, of the General's staff, Rev. Messrs. Peterkin and Kepler, and a circle of sorrow-stricken comrades and friends. We learn from the physicians in attendance upon the General, that his condition during the day was very changeable, with occasional delirium and other unmistakable symptoms of speedy dissolution. In the moments of delirium the General's mind wandered, and, like the immortal Jackson (whose spirit, we trust, his has joined), in the lapse of reason his faculties were busied with the details of his command. He reviewed, in broken senten
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Discoveries of the nineteenth century. (search)
11. Spectrum analysis. 12. Anesthetics. 13. Antiseptic surgery. 14. Conservation of energy. 15. Molecular theory of gases. 16. Velocity of light directly measured, and earth's rotation experimentally shown. 17. The uses of dust. 18. Chemistry, definite proportions. 19. Meteors and the meteoritic theory. 20. The Glacial Epoch. 21. The antiquity of man. 22. Organic evolution established. 23. Cell theory and embryology. 24. Germ theory of disease, and the function of the leucocytes. Of all preceding ages. 1. The mariner's compass. 2. The steam-engine. 3. The telescope. 4. The barometer and thermometer. 5. Printing. 6. Arabic numerals. 7. Alphabetical writing. 8. Modern chemistry founded. 9. Electric science founded. 10. Gravitation established. 11. Kepler's laws. 12. The differential calculus. 13. The circulation of the blood. 14. Light proved to have finite velocity. 15. The development of geometry.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 271 (search)
ey more properly entrust it than to you, the lineal descendants of the Germans of those early ages who, amid the verdant forests and sparkling waters of the Fatherland, bravely battled for liberty and freedom against the cruel domination of imperious, slaveholding, and all-enslaving Rome? Gallant Germans! Friends and brethren! we hail you as fellow-countrymen and co-equal heirs of our nation's destiny. The land of poetry, of song, of science; the birthplace of Schiller, and Mozart, and Kepler, has given you to us, to share our fortunes and our fate. This goodly Western continent is not less yours than ours; upon its broad and teeming bosom we stand or fall together. Side by side, we now battle for our nation's life. For this very purpose it was that you sought this western world. You came here that you of the present generation might enjoy that long-deferred but dearly-cherished object of every German heart, a comprehensive and united nationality. You left your native land
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
y Eratosthenes, the originator of astronomical geography; by Hipparchus, the father of mathematical astronomy; and by Ptolemy, the astronomer, A. D. 150, whose system was accepted down to the time of Tycho Brahe, A. D. 1582, and until Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo revived the true views of Aristarchus, the heliocentric theory promulgated nearly two thousand years before. Armillary sphere. E. The earth. a. Hour circle. b. North pole of the heavens. c. Arctic circle. d. Tropiclength of the telescope is equal to the sum of the focal distances of the two lenses, and the magnifying power is equal to the focal length of the object-glass divided by the focal length of the eye-glass. This telescope was first described by Kepler in his Dioptrice, 1611, but does not appear to have been executed till 20 or 30 years later. Cooke's telescope. A large instrument of its class was mounted at York, England, by Cooke. See Fig. 401. It is mounted equatorially on the Ger
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
rta is said to have hastened his death, which happened in 1615, by the fatigue and anxiety incurred in supporting his claims. Galileo had a hint of the invention, studied it out, and made a telescope which he soon put to use. See telescope. Kepler (1571 – 1630) was, perhaps, the first to state with precision the effects of lenses in making the pencils of light converge or diverge. He showed that a plano-convex lens makes rays that were parallel to its axis to meet at the distance of the dnequally convex. As the sum of both the diameters is to one of them, so is the other to the distance of the focus. The rule for convex glasses is applicable to concave, with the difference that the focus is on the contrary side of the glass. Kepler, in his Catoptrics, explains the rationale of the system of lenses in a telescope. Scheiner constructed one on this principle in 1630. His description is as follows: If you insert two similar lenses (that is, both convex) in a tube, and place y
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
y seen, so that its true character was not at first recognized, — the solar spots, and the crescent form of Venus. As early as November, 1610, Galileo wrote to Kepler that Saturn consists of three heavenly bodies in contact with each other. In this observation there was the germ of the discovery of Saturn's ring. Hevelius deslso noticed that spots which he had observed disappeared and returned again, and these phenomena taught him the rotation of the sun, which had been conjectured by Kepler before the discovery of the spots. The cycle of admirable discoveries, which scarcely occupied two years, was completed by the observation of the phases of Venusecrated ground, or to have a monument. The nineteenth century has attended to the latter duty. The eye-glasses of the Galilean telescope were double-concave. Kepler first pointed out the possibility of making telescopes with two convex lenses. Scheiner, in 1650, reduced it to practice. De Rheita made one with three lenses;
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
The writer still recollects one form in which the bars of a revolving reel were furnished with cloths and rotated by a hand-crank, the concern being six or seven feet long and having its bearings in posts of a frame standing upon the barn floor. It is among the histories of the machine that when it was introduced in Scotland, certain sensitive persons pronounced it an impious device, as it raised a wind when the Lord had made a calm This is another inflection of the old opposition that met Kepler and Galileo. Winnowing in Egypt (1500 B. C.） Fig. 7259 illustrates a machine, still in use, invented by Gooch of Northampton, England, in 1800. It embraces the important features of the more modern machines: the rotating fan, the shaking-riddle, and sieves for sorting the grain and separating extraneous matters. See also fanning-mill. English winnowing-machine. Winze. （Mining.) a. A shaft sunk from one level to another for communication or ventilation. b. A wheel and a
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 5: Bible and colportage work. (search)
e. The regular journals of that denomination, a monthly paper—The Soldier's Visitor—specially adapted to the wants of the army, Bibles, Testaments, and most excellent tracts in vast numbers, were freely sent forth to all the camps and hospitals from their centre of operations. The Virginia Episcopal Mission Committee heartily united in the work, and spent thousands of dollars per annum in sending missionaries to the army, and in printing and circulating tracts. Rev. Messrs. Gatewood and Kepler, of the Protestant Episcopal Church, were the zealous directors of operations in Virginia, while in other States such men as Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, Doctor, now Bishop, Quintard, of Tennessee, and the lamented General Polk gave the weight of their influence and the power of their eloquence, written and oral, to promote the cause of religion among our soldiers. At Raleigh, North Carolina, early in the war, Rev. W. J. W. Crowder commenced the publication of tracts, encouraged and assist
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