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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Capture of Port Gibson-Grierson's raid-occupation of Grand Gulf-movement up the Big Black- battle of Raymond (search)
hed eight miles beyond to the North Fork that day. One brigade of Logan's division was sent down the stream to occupy the attention of a rebel battery, which had been left behind with infantry supports to prevent our repairing the burnt railroad bridge. Two of his brigades were sent up the bayou to find a crossing and reach the North Fork to repair the bridge there. The enemy soon left when he found we were building a bridge elsewhere. Before leaving Port Gibson we were reinforced by [Gen. Marcellus M.] Crocker's division, McPherson's corps, which had crossed the Mississippi at Bruinsburg and come up without stopping except to get two days rations. McPherson still had one division west of the Mississippi River, guarding the road from Milliken's Bend to the river below until Sherman's command should relieve it. On leaving Bruinsburg for the front I left my son Frederick, who had joined me a few weeks before, on board one of the gunboats asleep, and hoped to get away without him
John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 18: (search)
ders sallied forth and delivered battle; but Fabius continued to adhere strictly to his plan of warfare, and stubbornly refused to encounter his antagonist in the plains. His colleague, Minucius, an imprudent and even rash General, dashed down from the heights with one-half of the Army, engaged Hannibal, and was only spared utter destruction by the timely aid of Fabius. Varro marched out, fought the Carthagenians near Cannaee, was defeated, and left forty thousand Romans upon the field. Marcellus, a more fortunate General, gained important advantages over the enemy; but, as history tells us, Fabius permitted no allurement of his foe, nor outcry of his countrymen, to induce him to descend from the mountains. His policy was, seemingly, as fixed and unchangeable as the sun in the eternal heavens. Plutarch relates that in order to secure himself against the enemy's horse, he took care to encamp above them on high and mountainous places. When they sat still, he did the same; when t
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., IV: civilization in the United States. (search)
he folly is due to a surveyor who, when the country was laid out, happened to possess a classical dictionary; but a people with any artist-sense would have put down that surveyor. The Americans meekly retain his names; and, indeed, his strange Marcellus or Syracuse is perhaps not much worse than their congenital Briggsville. So much as to beauty, and as to the provision, in the United States, for the sense of beauty. As to distinction, and the interest which human nature seeks from enjoyincher and more energetic than other men, above all, of finer nervous organization than other men. Yes, this people, who endure to have the American newspaper for their daily reading, and to have their habitation in Briggsville, Jacksonville, and Marcellus — this people is of finer, more delicate nervous organization than other nations! It is Colonel Higginson's drop more of nervous fluid, over again. This drop plays a stupendous part in the American rhapsody of self-praise. Undoubtedly the Am
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 148 (search)
deigned our Eagle the slightest salam-- Should fall flat to adore an American Ram? There have always been Rams! Father Adam, we know, Found some Rams in his garden a long time ago: In the raising of Rams Abel took much delight; And a Ram was concerned in the very first fight-- And the first Ram afloat, we may further remark, Was the Ram which old Noah took into the Ark! Then, it seems, there were Rams which were tied up in stalls, Driven out to do battle by butting down walls-- Alexander, Marcellus, and Sylla, we find, Had a great many Rams of this desperate kind, And when Titus encamped 'mid Jerusalem's palms, It is said that the Hebrews saw nothing but Rams! After these there came Rams not inclining to fights-- Rams resembling good Joshua's Gibeonites, Which were “drawers of water” --Hydraulic Rams-- Quite domestic, and commonly found with their dams! May such Rams still continue to thrive and increase With the limitless Ram-ifications of peace! Thus, we Ram-ble along through the c
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)
geT. Magoun'sT. MagounJohn HollandBoston177.66 22 BrigMargaretT. Magoun'sT. MagounFrancis WelchBoston172.71 23 BrigDolphinS. Lapham'sC. TurnerEdward CruftBoston236.27 24 ShipNorfolk PacketS. Lapham'sC. TurnerJohn C. JonesBoston360.18 25 ShipMarcellusS. Lapham'sC. TurnerC. D. CoolidgeBoston385.05 261812ShipEmilyT. Magoun'sT. MagounAndrew ScottNew York361.21 27 BrigTom ThumbT. Magoun'sT. MagounJoseph Lee, jun.Boston133.49 28 BrigBob ShortT. Magoun'sT. Magoun  135 29 BrigEdward FosterS. LatetsonJ. StetsonMedford160 3961848ShipLiving AgeJ. Stetson'sJ. StetsonE. D. Peters & Co.Boston758 397 ShipHarriett ErvingT. Magoun'sH. EwellW. W. GoddardBoston616 398 Sch.T. TaylorT. Magoun'sHayden & CudworthHawes & TaylorYarmouth75 399 ShipMarcellusT. Magoun'sHayden & CudworthHenry OxnardBoston691 400 ShipCromwellP. Curtis'sP. CurtisW. PerkinsBoston780 401 BarkCochituateP. Curtis'sP. CurtisE. BangsBoston353 402 ShipTownsendP. Curtis'sP. CurtisA. T. HallBoston754 403 Sch.Circas
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), chapter 18 (search)
b. Mar. 23, 1796.  216Lucy, b. Aug. 28, 1799. 104-145GILBERT Tufts m. Mary Chickering, and had--  145-217Abby, m. Fred. Williams.  218Gilbert, m. Charlotte Fitz.  219Caroline, b. 1822; m. Dr. J. E. Bartlett, and d. 1851.  220Sarah Scholfield.  221Arthur Webster, m. Anna Hooker. 104-147NATHAN Tufts m. Sarah Miller, and had--  147-222Sarah Elizabeth, b. 1811; m. Andrew B. Kidder.  223Mary Tapley, b. 1813; d. 1833.  224Martha, b. 1815.  225Nathan, b. 1818; m. Mary Jane Fitz.  226Marcellus, b. 1820; d. 1822.  227Hannah Johnson, b. 1822; m. Dr. Chauncey Booth.  228Daniel, b. 1825; d. 1825.  229Francis, b. 1827; grad. H. C., 1849. 110-172Joseph Tufts m. Helen Whittemore, and had--  172-230Joseph Binford, grad. H. C., 1849.  231Helen Emily, m. Theodore Buckman.  232William Whittemore, b. 1830.  233Benjamin, b. 1833; d. young. 110-174BERNARD Tufts m. Lucinda Tufts (No. 203), and had--  174-234Joseph Bernard, lives in Billerica.  235Edmund.  236Alfred,
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 3: in Memoriam (search)
Chapter 3: in Memoriam The ruined bridge at Bull Run on the heights above, young Pelham, hero of Randall's poem following, won his first laurels Pelham Just as the spring came laughing through the strife, With all its gorgeous cheer, In the bright April of historic life Fell the great cannoneer. The wondrous lulling of a hero's breath His bleeding country weeps; Hushed, in the alabaster arms of Death, Our young Marcellus sleeps. Nobler and grander than the child of Rome, Curbing his chariot steeds, The knightly scion of a Southern home Dazzled the land with deeds. Gentlest and bravest in the battle's brunt— The Champion of the Truth— He bore his banner in the very front Of our immortal youth. A clang of sabres 'mid Virginian snow, The fiery pang of shells— And there's a wail of immemorial woe In Alabama dells. The pennon droops that led the sacred band Along the crimson field; The meteor blade sinks from the nerveless hand Over the spotless shield. We gazed and gazed <
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
of Jupiter, B. C. 69. After this, Lentulus Spinther is said to have first introduced cotton awnings in the theater at the Apollinarian Games, July 6, B. C. 63; they were red, yellow, and iron-gray. By and by, Caesar the Dictator covered with awnings the whole Roman Forum, and the Sacred Way, from his own house to the ascent of the Capitoline Hill; this was 46 B. C., and is said to have appeared more wonderful than the gladiatorial exhibition itself. Afterward, without exhibiting games, Marcellus, the son of Octavia, sister of Augustus, when he was aedile and his uncle consul the eleventh time, on the day before the Kalends of August, July 31, 23 B. C., protected the Forum from the rays of the sun, that the people engaged in lawsuits might stand with less injury to their health. Pliny says: What a change from the manners that prevailed under Cato the Censor, who thought that the Forum should even be strewed with caltrops! Awning. The awnings extended, by the aid of ropes, o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
rning-mir′ror. A concave mirror, or a combination of plane mirrors, so arranged as to concentrate the sun's heating rays on a common object. The most celebrated of these are the mirrors of Archimedes, who thereby burned the Roman fleet of Marcellus at Syracuse. Each concave mirror was separately hinged, and they were brought to bear in combination upon the object in the common focus. In Peru, previous to the Spanish Conquest, the rays of the sun were collected in a concave mirror and fire kindled thereby. Besides the familiar instance of the burning of the fleet of Marcellus by Archimedes, another instance is cited by the historian Zonaras, who records that Proclus consumed by a similar apparatus the ships of the Scythian leader Vitalian, when he besieged Constantinople in the beginning of the sixth century. It must, however, be mentioned that Malaba, another old chronicler, says that Proclus operated on this occasion by burning sulphur showered upon the ships by machin
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ch is the inner wall of the ditch. At this point the fraise is placed, if such be used. The cordon projects a foot beyond the face of the scarp, or revetment. 2. The edge of a stone on the outside of a building. Cor′do-van; Cord′wain. A Spanish leather, originally of goat-skin, but now frequently made of split horse-hides. It is finished as a black morocco, and is named from Cordova (the ancient Corduba), which is situated on the Guadalquiver, in Andalusia, and was founded by Marcellus. It was the chief emporium of Iberia. The Moorish city contained 300,000 inhabitants in the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries. It was the great seat of the arts, sciences, and learning in the days of liberal Spain, when the people were worth something, before the black darkness of the Pedros and Philips. Cor-du-roy′. 1. (Fabric.) A stout, ribbed cotton fustian, made with a pile so cut as to leave a surface ridged in the direction of the warp. 2. A road formed of poles laid <
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