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The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley), chapter 141 (search)
. On the morning of the 14th heavy skirmishing and soon volleys of musketry were heard along some portions of the line, and early in the afternoon the regiment was ordered to take position along the creek running in front of and distant about 800 yards from the enemy's main fort on the left of our line. As the regiment was advancing to that position it was heavily shelled from the fort. The only loss, however, sustained was that of Jesse M. Woods, Company B, who was instantly killed, and Paisley, of Company H, and Walton, of Company K, wounded. At night the regiment, having been relieved, moved one mile to the rear and bivouacked, and on the following morning (15th) marched to the right a short distance, and relieved a portion of the Twentieth Army Corps from the trenches. That night the enemy evacuated, and on the morning of the 16th the regiment, with the balance of the division, was ordered to go to Rome, and soon thereafter was on the way, and, after marching about twenty mil
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kennedy, William (search)
Kennedy, William Author; born near Paisley, Scotland, Dec. 26, 1799; was made consul at Galveston, Tex., where he lived for many years, returning to England in 1847. He was the author of The rise, progress, and prospects of the republic of Texas; and of a condensation of the same, entitled Texas, its geography, natural history, and topography, etc. He died near London, England, in 1847.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, Alexander 1766-1813 (search)
Wilson, Alexander 1766-1813 Ornithologist; born in Paisley, Scotland, July 6, 1766; became a weaver, and wrote verses for the newspapers, and in 1789 peddled two volumes of his poetry through the country. His Watty and Meg, published in 1792, and attributed to Burns, had a sale of 100,000 copies. Being prosecuted for a poetical lampoon, he came to America in 1794, landing at Newcastle, Del. By the advice of William Bartram (q. v.), the botanist, he turned his attention to ornithology. Late in 1804 he made a journey on foot to Niagara Falls, and wrote a poetic account of it. In 1805 he learned the art of etching. He persuaded Bradford, the Philadelphia publisher, to furnish funds for the publication of a work on American ornithology in a superb manner, but it was so expensive that it was not pecuniarily successful. His labors, day and night, upon this great work impaired his health and hastened his death. He had finished seven volumes when he laid aside his implements of la
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Witherspoon, John 1722- (search)
Witherspoon, John 1722- Signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Gifford, Scotland, Feb. 5, 1722; was a lineal descendant of John Knox. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he was licensed to preach at twenty-one. When the Young Pretender landed in England young Witherspoon marched at the head of a corps of militia to join him. He was taken prisoner at Falkirk, and remained in Donne Castle until the battle of Culloden. While settled at Paisley he was called (1767) to the presidency of the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, and was inaugurated in August, 1768. He had already written and published several works, and had acquired a fine reputation for scholarship. Under his administration the college flourished, financially and otherwise. He was not only president, but was Professor of Divinity; also pastor of the Presbyterian church at Princeton. At the beginning of the Revolution the college was for a time broken up, when President Witherspoon assisted in t
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
er of Greenock, Scotland, is a tank 50 feet long, 12 wide, and 8 deep. The water percolates either upward or downward through the filtering material as it may be directed. After the filter has become foul, by opening a sluice the water is turned in the other direction, passing upward through the filter, and passing off by a waste-sluice. After the water is cleansed, the sluices are changed and the filter operates as before. There are three of these filters in the works. The filter of Paisley (c, Fig. 1974), constructed by Thom, is upon the principle just stated. Water is admitted to the filter by opening a sluice, and runs upon the surface of the filtering material through which it percolates, and passes off by the main. The stop-cock is kept closed so long as the filter does effective duty, but when it becomes choked by sedimentary matter and mud, the stopvalve of the main is closed, the stop-cock lowered, and the water carried by a pipe beneath the filtering material, so th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
and French imitations of Cashmere or India shawls are sometimes made of pure Thibetian goats' wool, frequently of goats' wool and sheep's wool, and often wholly of the latter. The manufacture of imitation Cashmere shawls was introduced into England about 1784 by a manufacturer of Norwich. He employed a warp of Piedmontese silk and a weft of worsted yarn, the design being afterward worked in by a process of hand darning. Norwich shawls were first produced entirely in the loom in 1805. Paisley then took up the manufacture and succeeded in producing successful imitation of Cashmere, using wool only, at very low prices. In 1802 the manufacture was begun at Paris. The invention of Jacquard's loom, or at least its perfection by Jacquard, is said to have originated in this manufacture. The French imitations of India or Cashmere shawls still approach nearer the original than any others, and command a corresponding price. Those of Scotch manufacturers are, however, but little behi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
n returned to the mill and wound upon large bobbins, from whence the thread is wound on the small spools for market. The spooling-machines automatically wind the thread on the spool, cut the nick, insert and fasten the end of the thread, cut it off, draw the spool off the spindle, drop it into a hopper, replace it by another spool, and continue the winding. Each machine winds eight spools at a time, at the rate of 300 dozen per day. The thread and gauze manufacture was begun at Paisley, in Scotland, 1759. 2. The spiral projecting rib on the shaft of a screw. 3. (Mining.) A slight vein of ore, smaller than a branch, passing off from the main vein into the rock. Thread-car′ri-er. （Knitting-machine.) The hook or eyelet on the carriage through which the yarn passes. Thread-cut′ter. A small blade attached to a thimble, to a threadstand, or to a sewingma-chine, to cut off a sewingthread; a substitute for breaking it, or for a pair of scissors. See list, page 21<
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 9: sunny memories, 1853. (search)
izzy and overwhelming kind. So many letters that it took brother Charles from nine in the morning till two in the afternoon to read and answer them in the shortest manner; letters from all classes of people, high and low, rich and poor, in all shades and styles of composition, poetry and prose; some mere outbursts of feeling; some invitations; some advice and suggestions; some requests and inquiries; some presenting books, or flowers, or fruit. Then came, in their turn, deputations from Paisley, Greenock, Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Belfast in Ireland; calls of friendship, invitations of all descriptions to go everywhere, and to see everything, and to stay in so many places. One kind, venerable minister, with his lovely daughter, offered me a retreat in his quiet manse on the beautiful shores of the Clyde. For all these kindnesses, what could I give in return? There was scarce time for even a grateful thought on each. People have often said to me that it must have been
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
ssemblages were invariably under the auspices of the aristocracy, and they were held where the police were stationed at the doorways to drive off the famishing, lest their plaint of hunger might salute the ears of their bloated task-masters. There was no lack of cotton in Manchester then. There was something worse than that. It was the same old complaint you will find in any part of England,—the poor over-worked and under-fed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. I went up to Paisley, where more than half the population were being fed from soup-kettles,—and pretty poor soup at that. There, too, the abolition of American slavery seemed to be the only thing which drew forth the sympathies or reached the charity of the aristocratic classes. So everywhere in England it was, that long-sighted benevolence, sweeping the distant horizon for objects of compassion, but blind as a bat to the misery at the door. It was not so in 1840 alone. I have been in England several ti
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xlii. (search)
ssemblages were invariably under the auspices of the aristocracy, and they were held where the police were stationed at the doorways to drive off the famishing, lest their plaint of hunger might salute the ears of their bloated task-masters. There was no lack of cotton in Manchester then. There was something worse than that. It was the same old complaint you will find in any part of England,—the poor over-worked and under-fed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. I went up to Paisley, where more than half the population were being fed from soup-kettles,—and pretty poor soup at that. There, too, the abolition of American slavery seemed to be the only thing which drew forth the sympathies or reached the charity of the aristocratic classes. So everywhere in England it was, that long-sighted benevolence, sweeping the distant horizon for objects of compassion, but blind as a bat to the misery at the door. It was not so in 1840 alone. I have been in England several ti
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