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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army 2 0 Browse Search
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G. S. Hillard, Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-General , U. S. Army, Chapter 2: (search)
dges arrived from Steilacoom, bringing twenty-nine pack-horses loaded with provisions. Preparations were now made to move northward: thirty-two broken-down horses were sent back, under charge of three men, to the Dalles, and the command was reduced to thirty-six persons, with forty-two riding-animals and fifty-two pack-animals. They started on the 20th, and moved in a northeasterly direction. On the 9th of October they reached their most northerly camp, about thirteen miles south of the Great Lake, in latitude 49° 26‘. They then moved west to the Columbia River, which they crossed at Fort Colville. Thence they proceeded southerly across the Great Plain of the Columbia River, and arrived at Walla-Walla on the 7th of November, at Fort Dalles on the 15th. From Fort Dalles they went down by water to Fort Vancouver, which they reached on the 18th. An extract from a letter to his brother, dated November 28, may be here appropriately introduced:-- From that place [the Yakima valley]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Merchant marine. (search)
rvard. The official report of the United States commissioner of navigation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, showed that 1,446 vessels, of 393,168 gross tons, were built and documented in the United States. Since 1856 this record was exceeded only twice—in 1864, when 415,740 gross tons were built, and in 1874, when 432,725 gross tons were built. The construction was classed according to the following types: Schooners, schooner-barges, and sloops, 499, of 109,605 gross tons; Great Lake steam-vessels, 25, of 97,847 gross tons; canal-boats and barges, 523, of 74,860 gross tons; ocean screw steamships, 20, of 60,369 gross tons (of which all but one, the Maracaibo, 1,771 gross tons, were built wholly or principally for trades reserved by law to American vessels); river-steamers, 375, of 44,282 gross tons; square-rigged vessels, 4, of 6,205 gross tons. The steam-vessels built—420, of 202,498 gross tons—surpassed the record, the nearest approach being 1891, when 488 steam-v<