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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863, September (search)
September 9. Chattanooga, Ga., was occupied by the National forces belonging to the army of General Rosecrans.--Colonel Cloud, with his division, belonging to the army of General Blunt, attacked a body of over one thousand rebels at Dardanelle, Ark., and defeated them, capturing their entire camp and a large amount of stores.--Lieutenant-Colonel Hays, with companies A, B, H, and parts of E and F, of the One Hundredth Ohio regiment, was attacked near Telford, Tenn., ninety-three miles up the railroad, by one thousand eight hundred rebels, under Jackson, and fought them gallantly for two hours, losing heavily in killed and wounded, but was finally compelled to surrender to overpowering numbers. National loss by the affair was about three hundred--killed, wounded, and prisoners — of which an undue proportion were commissioned officers.--the bombardment of Fort Moultrie, S. C., was continue
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 166 (search)
re. Advancing at a trot, Colonel Haynes threw the guns into battery in the midst of a shower of balls, upon a height, not more than two hundred yards, and promptly fired several rounds of shell into the block house. At this moment the enemy raised a white flag, and Colonel Haynes galloped forward and received the flag and sword of their commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Haynes, One Hundred and Fifth Ohio volunteers, and the surrender of near three hundred of the enemy, rank and file. Captain B. W. Jenkins, formerly of General Marshal's staff, volunteered for the occasion, and Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Bottles was in at the death. The enemy's loss was twelve killed and twenty wounded; our loss is six killed and ten wounded. The officers and soldiers throughout behaved with gallantry. The artillery, first under Lieutenant Graham at Telford's, then Lieutenant Blackwell, and finally under Colonel Haynes, at Limestone, acted with coolness and intrepidity throughout. More anon.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ses by a locomotive of peculiar form 1,170 feet in traversing 4,700. The boiler, furnace, and carriage are inclined so as to present a level floor on the slope. The inclined plane or railway of Mt. Washington is familiar to many tourists. In this connection the following data may be useful: — The pressure on a level pike against the collar is, say, 1/35 of the load. An ascent of 1 in 35 would double the draft, and may be a suitable maximum ascent. The French maximum is 1 in 20. Telford's maximum was 1 in 30. Simplon, Italian side, average 1 in 22; Swiss, 1 in 17. Angles. Degrees.Inclination.Feet per Mile.Angles. Degrees.Inclination.Feet per Mile. 1/21 in 115460° 28′1 in 12542 3/41 in 76690° 35′1 in 10053 11 in 57921° 9′1 in 50106 1 1/21 in 381331° 16′1 in 45117 21 in 291841° 26′1 in 40132 2 1/21 in 232311° 38′1 in 35151 31 in 192771° 55′1 in 30176 41 in 143692° 18′1 in 25211 51 in 114622° 52′1 in 20264 3° 49′1 in 15352 4° 24′1
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
M. Mac-ad′am-iz-ing. A mode of paving roads, introduced by Macadam, the metal or surface stone consisting of pieces of granite, whinstone, limestone, or hard freestone, according to the kind of rock which is accessible. Telford's rule, when two courses were used, was to make the lower one of blocks 7 inches in depth, laid by hand, broad end downward, and chinked with smaller stone. Over this, 7 inches of smaller stones were laid, no stone to weigh over 6 ounces, and all to pass through a metallic ring 2 1/2 inches in diameter. The stone is broken to uniform sizes, and several machines have been devised for this purpose. See stone-crusher. Ellis and Everard's stone-crushing mill has a strong feed-apron, composed of iron links and bars, which, passing around two wheels, delivers fragments of granite to a hopper which feeds them between two chilled-iron crushing-rollers; they then pass between a second pair of rollers which still farther reduce them in size. The ro
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
stituted in one street for the rounded stones or bowlders a bed of broken stone laid as a convex rounded roadway. His ideas were laughed at by professional road-makers, but after a trial of the new scheme, the paving of London was torn up, broken, and spread à la Macadam. The country districts soon followed the example. MacAdam was made Surveyor-General of the Bristol Roads; he was reimbursed for his expenses, and received the additional sum of £ 2,000 as a recognition of his services. Telford's road-section. The section (Fig. 4358) illustrates a plan successfully adopted by Telford on the Glasgow and Carlisle, the Holyhead, and other roads. It consists of a foundation a of paving-stones laid broad end downward on the leveled surface of the natural earth and covered with broken stones b to the depth of about six inches. These wedge in between the interstices of the foundation, forming a smooth and compact surface. c c are ditches, and d d pipe-drains. The National Road
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
seems to have been a very rude affair. Finlay constructed a chain-bridge in this country in 1796, over Jacob's Creek, between Uniontown and Greensburg, Pa., taking out a patent in 1801; in 1811 eight bridges had been built on his plan, which does not seem, however, to have recommended itself to the public generally, as we hear no more of it after that date. In 1819 a bridge, supported by cables, was constructed across the Tweed at Berwick, Eng., by Sir Samuel Brown; it had 449 feet span. Telford's bridge, over the Menai strait, was finished in 1826. It was suspended by rods of iron, 5 in a set, 4 of these constituting a link of the chain; these were connected by bolts and chainplates. The entire length of the chain was 1,710 feet, weight 3,876,784 pounds. (See plate at tubular bridge.) The distance between the centers of the pyramids at each end was 579 feet 10 inches; the deflection of the chains in the middle 43 feet; and the hight of the roadway above high-water mark 102 feet.
James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
arties of the enemy. On the 7th of September, 1863, when all the available Confederate forces had been ordered to Bragg at Chattanooga, and after Burnside with his army corps had occupied Knoxville, about 500 Federal infantry advanced as far as Telford's depot in Washington county. A small force of Confederates under Gen. Alfred E. Jackson was in the upper corner of northeast Tennessee.. Col. Henry L. Giltner, of the Fourth Kentucky cavalry, with a small body of troops occupied the departmentd Giltner heard of this advance of the detachment from Burnside's army, they united their forces and under Jackson's command marched. to attack the Federals. They encountered the Union troops with about equal numbers on the 8th of September at Telford's depot. After a short but sharp engagement, in which they lost 60 killed and wounded, while 100 succeeded in making their escape, the remaining 350 Federals finding retreat cut off, surrendered. On the theater of Jackson's operations there wa
The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], The currency. (search)
A Victory in Tennessee--capture of several hundred prisoners.[special dispatch to the Richmond Dispatch.] Lynchburg, Sept. 10. --On Tuesday morning a fight occurred at Telford's, a station on the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, 33 miles from Bristol and 93 from Knoxville. The enemy was driven back six miles to Limestone.--There our forces came up with them, and after a short engagement captured several hundred Yankees and about 100 East Tennessee tories, who had gotten into a block house, from which they were delivering a pretty heavy fire on our troops. Our casualties were slight. The loss of the enemy is not known, as their dead and wounded were carried off to the rear in a train on the railroad. Two hundred and fifty-five of the prisoners arrived here this evening. The rumored capture of Crowley, Montgomery, and Nelson proves unfounded. They all escaped, and have come through into our lines.
The Daily Dispatch: September 12, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Tennessee. (search)
Affairs in Tennessee. The Confederate forces in the fight at Telford's, near Jonesboro', Tenn., Tuesday, were commanded by Gen. Jackson. While our infantry engaged the enemy in front, a cavalry force was, by a skillful manœuvre, thrown in their rear, and thus the whole party were captured or killed. We learn that about 350 prisoners were taken, the remainder being killed or wounded. Our loss is stated at three killed and sixteen wounded. No bridges have been destroyed, and the road is open and in our possession to Jonesboro'. The enemy are in considerable force at Knoxville. They have never been further East than within a miles or two of Carter's depot, 12 miles this side of Jonesboro', which place they demanded the surrender of, but the demand not having been complied with they failed to attempt its enforcement. Cumberland Gap is still held by our forces. The Lynchburg Republican says: As we have before announced, the Yankees captured at Knoxville a freight train of