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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 5 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 13.95 (search)
of each, and a boom was rigged out, some fourteen feet in length, swinging by a goose-neck hinge to the bluff of the bow. [See p. 636.] A topping lift, carried to a stanchion inboard, raised or lowered it, and the torpedo was fitted into an iron slide at the end. This was intended to be detached from the boom by means of a heel-jigger leading inboard, and to be exploded by another line, connecting with a pin, which held a grape shot over a nipple and cap. The torpedo was the invention of Engineer Lay of the navy, and was introduced by Chief-Engineer Wood. Everything being completed, we started to the southward, taking the boats through the canals to Chesapeake Bay. My best boat having been lost in going down to Norfolk, I proceeded with the other through the Chesapeake and Albemarle canal. Half-way through, the canal was filled up, but finding a small creek that emptied into it below the obstruction, I endeavored to feel my way through. Encountering a mill-dam, we waited for high
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Appomattox campaign. (search)
Escort: B, F, and K, 5th U. S. Cav., Capt. Julius W. Mason. Headquarters Guard: 4th U. S., Capt. Joseph B. Collins. Army of the Potomac, Maj.-Gen. George G. Meade. Provost Guard: Col. George N. Macy: K, 1st Ind. Cav.,----; C, 1st Mass. Cav., Capt. Edward A. Flint; D, 1st Mass. Cav., Capt. James J. Higginson; 3d Pa. Cav., Lieut.-Col. James W. Walsh; 1st Batt'n, 11th U. S., Capt. Alfred E. Latimer; 2d Batt'n, 14th U. S., Capt. William H. Brown. Headquarters Guard: 3d U. S., Capt. Richard G. Lay. Quartermaster's Guard: Oneida (N. Y.) Cav., Capt. James E. Jenkins. Engineer Brigade: Brig.-Gen. Henry W. Benham: 15th N. Y. (9 co's), Col. Wesley Brainerd; 50th N. Y. Col. William H. Pettes. Battalion U. S. Engineers, Capt. Franklin Harwood. artillery, Brig.-Gen. Henry J. Hunt. siege train, Col. Henry L. Abbot: 1st Conn. Heavy, Maj. George Ager, Maj. George B. Cook; 3d Conn. Battery, Capt. Thomas S. Gilbert. artillery Reserve, Brig.-Gen. William Hays: 2d Me., Capt.