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John Bell Hood., Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies, Chapter 5: (search)
n were required for the number of men in my command; and, as the order to retreat had been given, it was deemed better to yield them to the enemy than to sacrifice one or two hundred men in reclaiming them. I think my action, in this instance, will meet not only the approval of the military, but also of the civilized world. The whole matter was laid before General Johnston, and the guns were abandoned with his concurrence; at least such is my recollection. Moreover, I am informed by Captain Sweat that these guns belonged to his command, and that they were four old iron pieces, not worth the sacrifice of the life of even one man. The following letter from General Johnston's chief of ordnance, Colonel Oladowski, is at variance with the statement that no material was lost by us in the campaign but the four field pieces, exposed and abandoned at Resaca by General Hood: Mobile, 29th May, 1874. General B. Bragg. General:-I answered your telegram day before yesterday; haste
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II., Xxx. Political Mutations and results.—the Presidential canvass of 1864.< (search)
is--Arnold, Farnsworth, Ingersoll, Norton, E. B. Washburne. Missouri--Blow, Boyd, King, Knox, Loan, McClurg, J. S. Rollins. Michigan--A. C. Baldwin, Beaman, Driggs, F. W. Kellogg, Longyear, Upson. Iowa — Allison, Grinnell, A. W. Hubbard, Kasson, Price, Wilson. Wisconsin--Cobb, McIndoe, Sloan, Wheeler. Minnesota--Donnelly, Windom. Kansas--Wilder. Oregon--McBride. Nevada--Worthington. California--Cole, Higby, Shannon.--Total, 119. Nays--[All Democrats.] Maine--Sweat. New York — Brooks, Chanler, Kalbfleisch, Kernan, Pruyn, Townsend, Ward, Winfield, Ben. Wood, Fernando Wood. New Jersey--Perry, W. G. Steele. Pennsylvania--Ancona, Dawson, Dennison, P. Johnson, W. H. Miller, S. J. Randall, Stiles, Strouse. Maryland--B. G. Harris. Kentucky--Clay, Grider, Harding, Mallory, Wadsworth. Ohio — Bliss, Cox, Finck, Wm. Johnson, Long, J. R. Morris, Noble, J. O'Neill, Pendleton, C. A. White, J. W. White. Indiana--Cravens, Edgerton, Harrington, Holma<
Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, part 1.4, chapter 1.7 (search)
ll feelings of sickly wretchedness away, and drew me on deck immediately. My nerves tingled, and my senses seemed to swim, as I cast a look at the unsteady sea and uneasy ship; but the strong penetrating breeze was certainly a powerful tonic, though not such a reviver as the sight of the ireful fellow who came on at a tearing pace towards me and hissed: Seize that scrubbing-broom, you — joskin! Lay hold of it, I say, and scrub, you — son of a sea-cook! Scrub like--! Scrub until you drop! Sweat, you — swab! Dig into the deck you----white-livered lime-juicer! I stole the briefest possible glance at his inflamed face, to catch some idea of the man who could work himself into such an intense rage, for he was a kind of creature never dreamed of before by me. Seeing me bend to my task without argument or delay, he darted to another boy on the lee side, and with extreme irony and retracted lips, stooped, with hands on knees, and said to him: Now, Harry, my lad, I am sure you don't wa<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Ruggles' amended report of the battle of Shiloh. (search)
tration of the following batteries, commencing on the right and extending to the left: First. Captain Trabue's Kentucky. Second. Captain Burns' Mississippi. Third. Lieutenant Thrall's section of Captain Hubbard's Arkansas. Fourth. Captain Sweat's Mississippi. Fifth. Captain Triggs' and Sixth. Captain Roberts' Arkansas. Seventh. Captain Rutledge's. Eighth. Captain Robinson's (twelve-pounder Napoleon guns) Alabama. Ninth. Captain Stansford's Mississippi. Tenth. Captaeneral Prentice from being reinforced from the river. As soon as I had replenished the limber-chests of my guns from my caissons, General Ruggles ordered me back to my former position. Captain Burns' Mississippi battery formed on my right. Captain Sweat's Mississippi battery or Captains Triggs' and Roberts' Arkansas batteries formed on my left. There were other batteries further to my left, but I am unable to state by whom they were commanded. The concentration of artillery at this point p
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
he wagon turns. A slider; a sweepbar. Sway-brac′ing. The guys of a suspensionbridge to prevent lateral swaying. Sweat′ing-bath. A vapor-bath for sweating persons. A stove or sudatory. Swather for mowing-machine. Sweating-furnace. els f f. The black copper which results is treated in a reverberatory furnace, and the argentiferous lead is cupelled. Sweat′ing-house. A separate apartment, where vapor-baths are obtained. Sweat′ing-ir′on. A scraper to remove sweat fromSweat′ing-ir′on. A scraper to remove sweat from horses. A similar instrument used by the gymnasts of a former age was known as a Strigil (which see). Sweat′ing-room. A room devoted to the use of a vapor-bath. Sweep. 1. A counter-weighted pole, poised upon a fulcrum-post, and used Sweat′ing-room. A room devoted to the use of a vapor-bath. Sweep. 1. A counter-weighted pole, poised upon a fulcrum-post, and used to raise and lower a bucket suspended from the longer end. It is also written swape. It is the shaduf of the Nile, and is known with us as the well-pole or well-sweep. See Shadoof. 2. The lever of a horse-power or pug-mill. 3.
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Spenser (search)
tly bliss, Does waste his days in dark obscurity And in oblivion ever buried is; Where ease abounds it's eath to do amiss: But who his limbs with labors and his mind Behaves with cares, cannot so easy miss. Abroad in arms, at home in studious kind, Who seeks with painful toil shall Honor soonest find. In woods, in waves, in wars, she wonts to dwell, And will be found with peril and with pain, Ne can the man that moulds in idle cell Unto her happy mansion attain; Before her gate high God did Sweat ordain, And wakeful watches ever to abide; But easy is the way and passage plain To pleasure's palace; it may soon be spied, And day and night her doors to all stand open wide. Faery Queen, B. II. c. III. 40, 41. Spenser's mind always demands this large elbow-room. His thoughts are never pithily expressed, but with a stately and sonorous proclamation, as if under the open sky, that seems to me very noble. For example,— The noble heart that harbors virtuous thought And is with child of
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
Wood, Hanley, Northrup and Short; Adjutant Jennison and Sergeant-Major Mink. Color-Sergeant Moody behaved with great gallantry. （345-347) Col. N. N. Davis' report of same battle mentions the above names, also that of Lieutenant Nettles. Speaks highly of the officers and gives those of the men who behaved with great gallantry during the entire day: Sergeant Neil and Private Crevillan, Company A; Sergeants Wylie (killed) and Moody, Company D; Sergeant Bumpers and Private Hall, Company E; Corporal Sweat and Private Boswell, Company F; Privates J. M. Ragland and C. P. Hurtel, Company G; Corporal Tatum and Private Smith, Company H; Sergeant New and Private Walters, Company I; Sergeant Tally, Privates Wilson, Carter, Scott, Love, Eubank and Fulmer, in fact, all of this company (K). J. B. Hall, a youth of 17 years of age, joined his brother's company (Company K) as an independent volunteer and fell mortally wounded while gallantly fighting the enemy some distance in advance of the regiment
The Daily Dispatch: May 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 24 (search)
anted Western or sack corn, and there are fears that it will prove an entire failure. The General Miramon, from Havana, the 13th, reports that the United States Consulate refuses to give clearances to vessels for ports in the seceding States. In New York city and Brooklyn many first class houses are occupied free of rent, and others are had for the taxes. There are four widow ladies in Culpeper, Va., who have nineteen sons in the Army of the Confederate States. Richard Green, an enterprising citizen of Baltimore county, Md. is dead. He was extensively engaged in the iron business. M. Clackner has been arrested in Baltimore, charged with being engaged in the flight on the 19th of April. President Davis, with his wife, visited the army at Pensacola on the 15th inst., and dined with Gen. Bragg. A Rev. Mr. Sweat was recently arrested in Tallapoosa, Ala., for stealing a horse. Flour from new wheat has been ground as the Palace Mills, Columbus, Ga.
The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], The raid into Southwestern Virginia--depredations of the enemy. (search)
hem on the table: Messrs. James C. Allen, Wm. J. Allen, Anconn, N Baldwin, Bliss, Brooks, Chandler, Clay, Col. Edgerton, Eldridge, English, Fink, Grider, Barding, Harrington. Harris, (Md.,) Harris, (Ill,) Herrick, Holmes, Johnson, (Ohio,) Kernan, Kinu, Knapp, Law, Lazear, LeBlond, Long, Mallery, Marcy, McDowell, McKenncy, Miller, (Penn,) Morris, (Ohio,) Morrison, Nelson, Noble, Odell, O'Nell'., (Ohio,) Pendleton, Robinson, Rollina, (Mo.,) Ross, Scott, Stebbins, Steels, (N. Y.,) Stuart, Sweat, Vorhees, Wadsworth, Chilton N. White, Joseph W. White, Winfield, and Fernando Wood. In the House on Tuesday Mr. Hardinge, of Ky., offered a resolution (which lies over,) that the "Union" is not dissolved, and that any rebel State which may voluntarily submit to the Yankee Government will be restored to "all its rights and privileges" under the Constitution of the United States Mr. Holman offered three resolutions, which were laid on the table — ayes 82, noes 74.--The following are two