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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 20: (search)
ched Lawrence before him. Our troops are still continuing the pursuit, but as the enemy have reached the heavily wooded country of Cass county, they will probably break up into small bands, and return to their isolated retreats, where it will be difficult to find them. Colonel Saysear, of the First Missouri State Militia cavalry, commenced a vigorous pursuit of Quantrell soon after he crossed into Missouri, and overtook him on Big Creek near Harrisonville, and killed six of his men. Majors Plumb and Thatcher, of the Eleventh Kansas cavalry, have also overtaken several detachments of the enemy, and killed a number of his men. As Quantrell's men have so often threatened the destruction of Lawrence during the last eighteen months, and as the place is second in size and importance in the State, and the home of Senator Lane, it is unaccountable why several companies of troops have not been stationed there. Having always been opposed to the border ruffians, it has since the war be
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 183 (search)
miles north of Aubrey, at half-past 11 P. M., the second an hour later. Before one o'clock, Major Plumb, my Chief of Staff. at the head of about fifty men, (which was all that could be got here an midnight through Gardner, eighteen miles from Lawrence, going toward that town. Pushing on, Major Plumb overtook Captains Coleman and Pike, six miles south-east of Lawrence, at half-past 10 o'cloc south of Lawrence, on their way out of the State. The enemy were overtaken near Palmyra by Major Plumb's command, to which were there added from fifty to one hundred citizens, who had been hastilyr himself with the troops which had followed Quantrell the day before. Half an hour before Major Plumb started from Kansas City on the night of the twenty-first, Captain Palmer, eleventh Kansas, wforce passed north-east toward Chapel Hill. Our forces divided in like manner at that point, Major Plumb and Major Thacher following the main body. On the twentieth of August I went to Leaven-wor
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 13 (search)
further back, perhaps eight or ten miles off. New orders were sent for the advance to come up rapidly, which it did accordingly — had been doing, in fact, all the time since the dawn of day. The Sixth, headed by its gallant Colonel, Judson, came galloping over the four miles of prairie between Maysville and the point where the fight was going on. The horses of Rabb's battery under trot, and the men of the splendid new Eleventh regiment at double-quick, under the lead of Ewing, Moonlight, and Plumb, until they were nearly exhausted, and made the distance in admirable time — Moonlight himself, by the way, on foot at the head of his men. Arrived upon the ground, Rabb's battery was placed in position with the customary promptitude of its youthful commander, and at once the six mouths of the fierce spiteful pieces were heard barking away at the foe who had retired into the woods — giving forth music that was truly inspiring. The Eleventh and the Sixth were formed into line of battle on<
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 26 (search)
iam Weer, commanding the Second brigade, that he behaved throughout with great gallantry, leading his men into the thickest of the fight. The same is true of Col. Bowen and Major H. H. Williams, commanding regiments in the same brigade. Capt. S. J. Crawford, of the Second Kansas, who commanded a battalion of that regiment that fought on foot, displayed great gallantry; as did also the lamented Capt. A. P. Russell, who fell mortally wounded. Col. Thomas Ewing, Lieut.-Col. Moonlight, and Major Plumb, of the Eleventh Kansas, gave evidence of their high qualities as gallant officers. To Capts. Rabb and Hopkins, and Lieuts. Tenny and Stover, who served their artillery with such terrible and destructive effect upon the enemy's ranks, too much praise cannot be awarded. All did their duty well and nobly. Men of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana mingled their blood upon the same field, and for the same worthy cause. For their deeds of valor upon the field of Prair
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 38 (search)
teep acclivity in the advance, under the command of Capt. S. J. Crawford and Captain A. P. Russell--Major Fisk having been wounded by a piece of shell early in the day; next followed the Third Indian regiment, (Cherokees) under the command of Col. Phillips and its other field-officers, Lieutenant-Col. Downing and Major Foreman, voluntarily assisted by Major Van Antwerp, of my staff, and the Eleventh Kansas, under the command of its field-officers, Colonel Ewing, Lieut.-Col. Moonlight, and Major Plumb. The resistance of the rebels was stubborn and determined. The storm of lead and iron hail that came down the side of the mountain, both from their small arms and artillery, was terrific, yet most of it went over our heads without doing us much damage. The regiments just named, with a wild shout, rushed up the steep acclivity, contesting every inch of ground and steadily pushing the enemy before them until the crest was reached, when the rebels again fled in disorder. Four howitzers
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ing-machine.Dynamometer. Caliper-rule.Electrometer. Calipers.Electric-balance. Chain-inclinometer.Fare-box. Circumferentor.Fare-register. Circumventor.Faucet, Measuring Fore-staff.Platform-scales. Funnel. MeasuringPlotting-scale. Gage.Plumb. Gaging-rod.Prismatic compass. Garment-measurer.Quadrant. Gas-meter.Quadrat. Gas-register.Recipiangle. Geometric square.Register. Grading-instrument.Scale. Graduated glass.Scales. Grain-measurer.Sea-way measurer. Grain-scales.Sector. Grapboard.Gain. Cleading.Gambrel-roof. Clear-stuff.Garret. Coak.Geometric staircase. Cocket-centering.Girder. Cocking.Grafting. Cockle-stairs.Ground-plate. Coffer.Grounds. Collar-beam.Ground-sill. Compass-window.Gutter. Half timbered.Plumb. Halving.Plummet. Hammer beam-roof.Pole-plate. Hand-rail.Post. Hatchet.Prick-post. Heading-course.Principal. Heading-joint.Pugging. Heel-post.Punch. Herring-bone.Puncheon. High roof.Purlin. Hip.Quarters. Hip-knob.Queen-post. Hip-rafte
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
.Slate-pencil. Mullion.Slate-trimming machine. Nigged ashlar.Slatt. Nog.Slushed. Obelisk.Soffit. Off-set.Spall. Opus.Span. Paros marble.Spandrel. Parpoint-work.Spandrel-wall. Parting-tool.Spire. Party-wall.Springing. Perbend.Square. Pick-hammer.Squinch. Piel.Stabbing. Pietra dura.Steening. Pinning-in.Stereos'atic arch Pise work.Stone. Artificial Pitch.Stone-axe Pitched work.Stone-boat. Plaster.Stone-breaker. Plinth.Stone-breaker's hammer. Plug and feather.Stone-bridge. Plumb.Stone-channeling machine. Point.Stone-crusher. Pointer.Stone-cutting. Pointing.Stone-dressing machine. Porphyry.Stone-drilling machine. Poyntel.Stone-gatherer. Pozzuolana.Stone-grinding machine. Protean-stoneStone-hammer. Pseudisodomon.Stone-molding machine. Pudding-stone.Stone-polishing machine. Pugging.Stone-preserving. Puncheon.Stone-saw. Put-log.Stone-vessel. Quarrel.Stoneware Quarrying.Straggling Quoin.Straight-arch. Raker.Stretcher. Raking-piece.Stretching-course. Reg
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
tting the dies of a screw-stock. Plug-valve. A tapering valve fitting into a seat like a faucet. Plug-valve. Plumb. A line with a suspended plummet to prove the perpendicularity of work. Plum-ba′go. A non-pertinent name for grad is also employed by surveyors and astronomers for placing an instrument centrally over a station point of departure. Plumb′er-block. A pair of jaws or a pedestal for holding the brasses of a shaft bearing. See pillow-block and plummer-blockby suction, or may be applied elsewhere, effecting the desired object by hydraulic pressure. Plumber's force-pump. Plumb′er's Sol′der. See solder. Plumb′ing and sheet-met′al work and tools. See:— Autogeneous soldering.Raising. BPlumb′ing and sheet-met′al work and tools. See:— Autogeneous soldering.Raising. Bat.Raising-hammer. Beak-iron.Riveting. Blocking-down.Riveting-set. Came.Seaming-tool. Copper-bit.Seam-set. Creasing-tool.Share-hook. Die.Shears. Dinged work.Sheet-metal press. Double-seaming machine.Snarling-iron. Dutch clinker
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 54: President Grant's cabinet.—A. T. Stewart's disability.—Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.—Motley, minister to England.—the Alabama claims.—the Johnson-Clarendon convention.— the senator's speech: its reception in this country and in England.—the British proclamation of belligerency.— national claims.—instructions to Motley.—consultations with Fish.—political address in the autumn.— lecture on caste.—1869. (search)
umner, in its leader, Sept. 30, 1869, approved the speech, with emphasis on the part relating to Cuba. The Boston Advertiser, September 23, was equally emphatic in its approval. Similar testimonies came from Mr. Hooper, R. H. Dana, Jr., General Cushing, E. R. Hoar, E. G. Spaulding, Ira Harris, E. B. Washburne (from Paris), and A. G. Curtin (from St. Petersburg). Mr. Fish was pleased with the speech, particularly with its treatment of the Cuban question. He wrote, October 9, to the senator: Plumb writes from Havana that your speech seemed so timely and admirable, and in accord with what he had heard of views of the department, that he brought it officially to the attention of the authorities. The British Cabinet was uneasy under the suspension of negotiations, and through Sir Edward Thornton sounded our government as to what terms of settlement would be satisfactory to it. The following letter, given in full, shows the diplomatic condition, and also the intimate relations between
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
er here. In February, 1860, about the commencement of the second term of the Junior year, there occurred a change which related to the inmost feelings and affections of my heart,—a change towards God. I humbly thank Him for such a change. The beginning was small, but light and peace have grown in my mind since. It promises greater and happier things to me in the future. It was through my relations with the Chestnut Street Society in Chelsea, and through the efforts of its pastor, the Rev. Mr. Plumb, that this was brought about. I have been connected with that society, Sabbath school, &c., through most of my stay here, and have been a member of the church there since last July. I have spent my Sabbaths mostly at home in Chelsea. My intention now is to prepare for the ministry, and I shall go to Andover for that purpose either immediately or in the course of a year or two, after teaching, it may be, awhile. But I am very sanguine now about my future. It would not have been
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