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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Fair Oaks or Seven Pines: in sight of Richmond. (search)
almost continuous. At Gaines' Mill Tidball and his guns won laurels. The artillery had begun the battle at about 11 o'clock, and it was their fight until nearly 3 o'clock in the afternoon of June 27th, when the fighting became general. The batteries were well in front and occupied a dangerous position, but despite the vigor of the attack the guns stayed where they were. General Sykes reported of the artillery this day: The enemy's attack was frustrated mainly through the services of Captain Reade and Captain Tidball. Tidball emerged from the action with a brevet of major. He was brevetted lieut.-colonel for gallantry at Antietam on September 17th. At Gettysburg he commanded a brigade of horse artillery which he led in the Wilderness campaign, also, and was brevetted brigadier-general on August 1, 1864, brevetted major-general for gallant and meritorious services at Fort Stedman and Fort Sedgwick in the Petersburg campaign, and confirmed as a brigadier-general at the end of the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
. It is a white, hard, brittle metal, more difficult to fuse than platinum, and the heaviest of all known substances. It has been used for forming the tips of gold pens. The alloy of iridium and osmium, called iridosmine, is the hardest of all alloys. It forms the point of the everlasting pen, made by Hawkins of England, and is ground by diamond-dust. Ir-i-dos′mine. An alloy of iridium and osmium. The hardest of all known alloys. Iris-cope. An instrument contrived by Dr. Reade for exhibiting the prismatic colors. Sir David Brewster describes it in the Phil. Trans. for 1841 as a plate of polished black glass, having its surface smeared with a solution of soap and dried by wash — leather. On breathing through a tube upon the glass, the vapor is deposited in brilliant colored rings. Iris-diaphragm. I′ris—dia-phragm. （Optics.) A contractile diaphragm, simulating the action of the natural iris, to regulate the size of the aperture in a microscope th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
l mordants to cloth to be printed. Sad′dle. 1. (Saddlery.) A seat or pad to be placed on the back of an animal to support the rider or the load. Besides the ordinary kinds, the man's saddle, and the side-saddle for women, there are cart, gig, puck, ambulance, camel, and ox saddles. The camel is used in Asia and the northern part of Africa. The ox is the ordinary beast for riding and for burdens in the interior of Africa, as witness Livingstone, Speke, Grant, Baker, Barth, Chaillu, Reade. The earliest saddles on record are those of Egypt (a) and Persepolis. They were not for riding, but were analogous to our harness-saddles, except in their position. They rested on the withers of the horses, and were secured in place by belly and collar bands. They were attached to a yoke which passed over the shoulders of the horses, and at its midlength was attached to the pole or tongue of the chariot. The saddle had a hook for the bearing-rein, and had a single trace, on the side
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A letter to a young contributor. (search)
in your own individuality to keep it resolutely down for a year or two. A man has not much intellectual capital who cannot allow himself a brief interval of modesty. Premature individualism commonly ends either in a reaction against the original whims, or in a mannerism which perpetuates them. For mannerism no one is great enough, because, though in the hands of a strong man it imprisons us in novel fascination, yet we soon grow weary, and then hate our prison forever. How sparkling was Reade's crisp brilliancy in Peg Woffington! --but into what disagreeable affectations it has since degenerated! Carlyle was a boon to the human race, amid the tameness into which English style was declining; but who is not tired of him and his catchwords now? Now the age has outgrown him, and is approaching a mode of writing which unites the smoothness of the eighteenth century with the vital vigor of the seventeenth, so that Sir Thomas Browne and Andrew Marvell seem quite as near to us as Pope
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.44 (search)
, S. B. Northern, Robt. N. Oliver, M. E. Page, J. F. Pannill, Charles Panill, Walter Peaman, Charles J. Penman, John Pettet, Thomas T. Poarch, E. J. Poarch, E. N. Pool, Stephen Pool, S. D. P. Rae, J. E. Reade, G. W. Reade, J. T. Davis, W. H. Dean, Leonidas H. Derring, James Dunlop, James R. Folks, Joseph Farley, George W. Farley, Peter F. Farley, Thomas A. Gibson, Jeb Gregory, Thomas B. Grigg, W. E. Guess, NelsoReade, J. T. Davis, W. H. Dean, Leonidas H. Derring, James Dunlop, James R. Folks, Joseph Farley, George W. Farley, Peter F. Farley, Thomas A. Gibson, Jeb Gregory, Thomas B. Grigg, W. E. Guess, Nelson Harrison, R. H. Hobbs, Robert H. Hobbs, Samuel B. Hofman, C. H. Jelks, William A. Jameson, W. A. Johnson, R. H. Jones, R. E. Jordan, Orris F. Kenney, Robert Kevan, William C. Kinsey, Levi A. Kull, Mark E. Lacy, William P. Lee, E. B. Lilly, William E. Lipscomb, Hersey Lufsy, H. Lewis Lyon, Daniel Robertson, J. T. R. Roberts, John P. Ruffin, Theo. B. Sandford, Paul W. Simmons, N. B. Smith, Joseph A. Smith, W. C.
The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
authorized by law to discharge the duties of that office, were taken up. Motions to commit the resolutions to the Judiciary Committee and to transfer them to the executive calender, were respectfully rejected. The question of the adoption of the resolutions were discussed at great length. After considerable discussion, the resolutions were agreed to by the following vote: Ayes--Messrs. Brown, Burnett, Caperton, Clark, Haynes, Henry, Johnson, of Ark., Maxwell, Oldham, Orr, Reade, Semmes, Simms, Sparrow and Wigfall--15. Noes--Messrs. Hill, Hunter, Jemison, Johnson, of Georgia and Phelan--6. The following are the committee's resolutions. Resolved, That in the opinion of the Senate, A C Myers is now Quartermaster General of the Confederate States Army, and is by law authorized and required to discharge the duties thereof. Resolved, That R. Lawton is not authorized by law to discharge the duties of said office. On motion of Mr. Clark, the Senate
The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Confederate States Congress. The proceedings of the State yesterday were opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Sehon, of the Methodist Church. Mr. Reade, of North Carolina, was appointed to fill the vacancy in the Committee of Finance occasioned by the retirement of the Hon. Geo. Davis, of N. C. On motion of Mr. Johnson, of Ark, it was ordered that from this time till the end of the session the Senate take calls a recess from half past 3 o'clock P. M. till seven o'clock P. M. Mr. Semmes, from the Finance Committee, reported back with an amendment the House bill to increase the compensation of certain officers of the Treasury; and also, with an amendment, the House bill for the relief of tax payers in certain cases; which bills were severally considered and the amendments agreed to, and the bills as amended passed. Mr. Sparrow, from the Military Committee, reported the following important bill, which was considered and passed by a vote of sixteen to two: The
The Daily Dispatch: July 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from New Orleans. (search)
." Captain Spere gives some graphic pictures of African barbarism, and leaves us the inference that the negro is better off under the control of a civilized people than in his native wilderness; something of an admission from a modern Englishman. Renan, who made such a sensation with his "Vie de Jesus," has published a series of theological and metaphysical essays, which are attracting the attention of the critics. The fourth volume of Carlyte's "Frederick the Great" is announced, also Reade's "Savage Africa." Parton, who manufactured the biographies of Burr had Jackson, has published "the Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin," The Yankees are rejoicing over a "History of the Administration of Abraham Lincoln," written by Raymond, of the New York Times Giddings, who died here lately, while the Yankee Consul General to Canada, wrote a "History of the Rebellion," which is just out. Gen Scott is understood to be writing a memoir of himself. Charles Dickens's new story, "Our Mut