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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 19: events in Kentucky and Northern Mississippi. (search)
, and seventy-two of the men, including nearly all of the officers, had been slain or wounded) to be seized by the Confederates. For the possession of these guns desperate charges and counter-charges were made, and they were repeatedly taken and retaken, until they were finally dragged from the field by the Confederates. The bravery of its commander, Lieutenant Sears, was specially commended. While this struggle was going on, in which the movements were immediately directed by Brigadier-Generals Sanborn and Sullivan, Stanley's division had come up, but the nature of the ground was such that more troops than were then engaged could not well be made useful, and only the Eleventh Missouri, This regiment, though organized in Missouri, was composed of citizens of Illinois, with the exception of about twenty men. For over half an hour it held its position in this battle without having a single round of ammunition. which was pushed to the front, and which gallantly assisted the Fifth
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 22: the siege of Vicksburg. (search)
n of 0. P. Wright, on whose farm the battle was fought. The brow of the till on the left, where the road pases over, is the place where the Confederate cannon were planted. Crocker disposed his forces in battle order while a heavy shower of rain was falling, and at eleven o'clock they moved to the attack slowly and cautiously, preceded by a line of skirmishers. The First Missouri battery had been placed near a cotton-gin in the open field, and Crocker now threw out two brigades (Colonel Sanborn's and Colonel Holmes's) on the right and left of it, supported by Colonel Boomer's. His skirmishers were soon met by such volleys from the infantry in the hollow, that they were recalled. Crocker saw that the foe in that hollow as well as on the crest of the hill, must be dislodged, or the National troops must retire; so he ordered a charge by his whole line, with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets. Instantly the troops moved steadily forward with, banners flying, unchecked by heavy vo
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., In my sanctum. (search)
nd the future Presidents be? Not in free homes, I know. Crimes! Does the reader know that, by the laws of Virginia, if a slave commits a capital offence, he may be pardoned by being sold out of the State--the owner of him pocketing the proceeds of the auction? But statistics refute Colonel Benton's statement. It is capable of demonstration that twenty-five thousand negroes are annually sold from the Northern or slave-breeding to the Southern or slave-buying Slave States. See Chase and Sanborn's North and South, and the authorities they cite. I have seen families separated and sold to different masters in Virginia; I have spoken with hundreds of slaves in the Carolinas, who were sold, they told me, from their wives and children in the same inhuman State; and I have seen slave-pens and slave-cars filled with the unhappy victims of this internal and infernal trade, who were travelling for the city of New Orleans; where, also, I have witnessed at least a score of public negro aucti
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
bson; Raymond. notes.--Organized at Burlington, in July, 1861, leaving the State on August 11th. During the rest of the year and in the following winter it was on active duty in Missouri. In March, 1862, it engaged in the operations around New Madrid, Mo., after which it was stationed for a few months in various places in the Southwest. In August, 1862, it encamped at Jacinto, Miss., leaving there, September 18th, for Iuka, where it fought the next day under Rosecrans. It was then in Sanborn's (1st) Brigade of Hamilton's Division, and sustained the heaviest loss of any regiment in that battle, its casualties amounting to 37 killed, 179 wounded, and 1 missing; among the killed were five line officers. General Rosecrans said officially, that the glorious Fifth Iowa bore the thrice-repeated charges of the rebel left with a valor and determination seldom equalled, never excelled by veteran soldiers. During the Vicksburg campaign the Fifth was in Boomer's (3d) Brigade, Crocker's D
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, List of regiments in the Union Armies, with total number of deaths in each. (search)
ixteenth. Feb., ‘62 12th Illinois Reenlisted and served through the war.   38 38 4 192 196 234 Arnold's Nineteenth. Feb., ‘62 13th Illinois Reenlisted and served through the war.   21 21 4 360 364 385 Davidson's Dept. Ark. Feb., ‘63 14th Illinois 2 23 25   190 190 215 Stoneman's Cavalry, A. O. May, ‘63 15th Illinois 2 12 14 1 122 123 137 Dodge's Sixteenth. June, ‘63 16th Illinois 3 30 33 1 228 229 262 Stoneman's Cavalry, A. O. Feb., ‘64 17th Illinois   7 7 1 86 87 94 Sanborn's Dept. Mo.   Light Artillery.                     1st Illinois Light Artillery                   July, ‘61 A-- Reenlisted and served through the war. Wood's   15 15   22 22 37 M. L. Smith's Fifteenth. July, ‘61 B--Barrett's   9 9 1 17 18 27 Blair's Fifteenth. Aug., ‘61 C-- Reenlisted and served through the war. Houghtaling's   15 15   19 19 34 Johnson's Fourteenth. Nov., ‘61 D-- Reenlisted and served through the war. M
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
y difficult substance to cut, and requires a strong knife to pass through any considerable quantity. The knife must also have a draw or shear cut, and requires frequent grinding. One form of paper-cutter is a straight-edge and traveling knife. Another has a revolving traveling knife sliding on a bar parallel with a stationary knife which acts as one blade of a shears. Another form has a knife hinged at one end, which descends on a pile of paper with a shear cut. See card-cutter. Sanborn's paper-cutter (Fig. 3524) has a cast-iron frame which sustains the horizontal bed T′ upon which the paper to be cut is placed. Working through vertical slots or guides, formed in the upper part of the frame just mentioned, is the knife-stock Z, which carries the knife or cutter, the latter being detachable, so that when required it may be removed for sharpening. The cutter-stock is suspended from a horizontal cross-piece at the top of the frame by means of two toggles or swinging-bars,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
l. j′, Pierce's rail. k′, Peckham's rail. l′, Perkins's rail. m′, Shephard's steel-top rail. n′, Day and Mercer's rail. o′, Dwight's rail. p′, Zahn's rail. q′, Johnston's rail. r′, Stephens and Jenkins's rail. s′, Sanborn's tubular rail. t′, Sanborn's rail. u′, Angle's L-rail on continuous sleeper. v′, Dean and Coleman's street-car rail. w′, rail and sleeper, for the East Indies. The sleeper is bent from a plate of wroughtiron to resist the attacks oSanborn's rail. u′, Angle's L-rail on continuous sleeper. v′, Dean and Coleman's street-car rail. w′, rail and sleeper, for the East Indies. The sleeper is bent from a plate of wroughtiron to resist the attacks of insects which destroy wooden sleepers. Parkin's vitrified sleeper, patented in England in 1835, consists of hard sleepers of molded and baked blocks laid in continuity, tongues and recesses on adjacent blocks serving to lock them together. A timber strip was interposed between the row of blocks and the rail. Grime's English patent, 1831, specified a hollow rail charged with steam from stationary boilers at intervals of two or three miles, and intended to keep
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
alum. 101,268.Asbestus, marble-dust, pipe-clay, gypsum, glycerine, mucilage, sulphate magnesia, sulphate soda, borax, alum, sal-soda, paraffine. Safes and vaults using water or steam for protection in case of fire :— HorsfordNo. 39,919 SanbornNo. 63,331 AshcroftNo. 66,062 BryantNo. 66,790 BryantNo. 67,154 SanbornNo. 67,220 BryantNo. 67,629 AshcroftNo. 70,390 Eaton and IrelandNo. 71.288 BryantNo. 79,808 BryantNo. 79.809 BryantNo. 86,356 RobertsonNo. 101,044 PutnamNo. 104,35SanbornNo. 67,220 BryantNo. 67,629 AshcroftNo. 70,390 Eaton and IrelandNo. 71.288 BryantNo. 79,808 BryantNo. 79.809 BryantNo. 86,356 RobertsonNo. 101,044 PutnamNo. 104,352 ShortNo. 116,227 Fire-proof safe. Fig. 4529 shows a safe with exterior and interior walls, with intervening non-conducting filling. The door is also double. Hall burglar-proof safe. Fig. 4530 is a view of Hall's safe, in which the plates are dovetailed together, and angle-irons are tenoned into the corners to make them mutually sustaining. Fire-proof safe with water-jacket. Fig. 4531 is a safe having hollow walls connected with the city main. Marvin's burglarproof s
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 1: (search)
neutrality laws of the United States during the Crimean War. In 1856, cooperating with counsel from Ohio, he made a noted application to Judge Curtis, of the United-States Supreme Court, for a writ of habeas corpus, to test the authority by which the Free-State prisoners were held confined in Kansas by Federal officers. More lately, in 1859, he initiated and directed the measures to procure suitable counsel for the defence of John Brown in Virginia; and, in 1860, was counsel for Hyatt and Sanborn, witnesses summoned before Senator Mason's committee of investigation into the John-Brown affair. Upon his argument, the latter was discharged by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts from the custody of the United-States marshal, by whose deputy he had been arrested under a warrant issued at the instigation of that committee. Being himself, about the same time, summoned before the committee, he appeared at Washington, and rendered his testimony. Nor had he hesitated, under his theory of hi
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 11: (search)
and of Lieutenant Dame, Sixth Company; found there also Lieutenant Bumpus, of the Tenth Company, who is on staff duty. Next passed on to Fort Greble, where our Seventh Company had its headquarters. Part of it were also in Forts Snyder and Carroll. I next came to Fort Davis, where the Tenth Company is stationed, which also had details in Forts Davis, Dupont, Mahan, and Meigs. Captain Bumpus, who commands this company, I did not see, he having gone that morning to Washington. I found Lieutenant Sanborn in command. From Fort Meigs I had to make a journey of nearly six miles to Fort Lincoln, and to again cross the East Branch. Here is the headquarters of the Ninth Company, Captain Gordon. This company garrisons Fort Lincoln (which is within a mile of Bladensburg, and near General Hooker's old camp), Thayer and Saratoga. Captain Gordon and Lieutenant Currier had left, the day before I arrived, to attend a court in New Jersey, where one of the Ninth-company men was under trial for mu
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