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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Confederate army. (search)
Col. J. C. Carter; 51st and 52d Tenn., Lieut.-Col. John G. Hall. Brigade loss: k, 44; w, 400; m, 43 == 487. Strahl's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. O. F. Strahl: 4th and 5th Tenn., Col. J. J. Lamb; 19th Tenn., Col. F. M. Walker; 24th Tenn., Col. J. A. Wilson; 31st Tenn., Col. E. E. Tansil; 33d Tenn.,----. Brigade loss: k, 19; w, 203; m, 28 == 250. Artillery, Maj. Melancthon Smith: Tenn. Battery, Capt. W. W. Carnes; Ga. Battery, Capt. John Scogin; Tenn. Battery (Scott's), Lieut. J. H. Marsh (w), Lieut. A. T. Watson; Miss. Battery (Smith's), Lieut. W. B. Turner; Miss. Bat'y, Capt. T. J. Stanford. Hill's Corps, Lieut.-Gen. Daniel H. Hill. Cleburne's division, Maj.-Gen. P. R. Cleburne. Wood's Brigade, Brig.-Gen. S. A. M. Wood: 16th Ala., Maj. J. H. McGaughy (k), Capt. F. A. Ashford; 33d Ala., Col. Samuel Adams; 45th Ala., Col. E. B. Breedlove; 18th Ala. Battalion, Maj. J. H. Gibson (k), Col. Samuel Adams; 32d and 45th Miss., Col. M. P. Lowrey; Sharp-shooters, Maj. A. T. Hawkins (k), Capt.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 2 (search)
ame time, fifteen guns, composed of sections from the batteries of Captain Poague, (Lieutenant A. Graham commanding,) Captain Watson, Captain Smith, Captain Garber, one gun of Captain Dance's battery, and the Louisiana Guard battery, three guns, werene brass rifle from Second Howitzers, and one three-inch rifle from Captain Dance's battery, all under the command of Captain Watson, (Second Howitzers.) These eight guns were actively engaged, and suffered severely from the enemy's artillery and shaifles of the Third Howitzers, I sent them back to the field, where they remained, in company with the three pieces of Captain Watson's battery, until about nine o'clock. About two o'clock, by order of Colonel Crutch-field, I placed in position, on thappend a list of casualties: Lieutenant-Colonel Coleman, wounded in leg. Poague's battery, six killed and ten wounded. Watson's Second Howitzers, one killed and seven wounded. Smith's Third Howitzers, three killed and three wounded. Dance's batter
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 41 (search)
as in this engagement that First Lieutenant John H. Marsh was severely, if not dangerously, wounded, while gallantly encouraging his men and inspiring them by his own distinguished coolness and heroism. The command then devolved upon Second Lieutenant A. T. Watson, who, throughout the engagement, acted with commendable bravery. In bringing on the engagement and in driving the enemy the battalion of sharpshooters did efficient service, both officers and men acting well their parts. After sf the ridge, meeting with but little resistance, though the enemy were strongly posted. Accompanying this will be found the reports of the several regimental commanders, Major William Green, commanding battalion of sharp-shooters, and Lieutenant A. T. Watson, commanding Scott's battery, of the action taken by their respective commands, to which I invite your attention. A list of the casualties of the brigade has already been forwarded to Headquarters. I cannot close this report without a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 61 (search)
l Helm.--Fourth Kentucky volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Hynes; Fifth Kentucky volunteers, Colonel Hunt; Thirty-first Alabama volunteers, Colonel Edwards; Fourth Alabama battalion, Lieutenant-Colonel Snodgrass; Thirty-fifth Mississippi volunteers, Colonel Orr; Hudson battery. General J. S. Bowen.--First Missouri volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Riley; Tenth Arkansas volunteers; Ninth Arkansas volunteers, Colonel Dunlop; Sixth Mississippi volunteers, Colonel Lowry; Second Confederate battalion; Watson's battery, Captain Bursley. General Preston.--Third Kentucky volunteers, Colonel Thompson; Sixth Kentucky volunteers, Colonel Lewis; Seventh Kentucky volunteers, Colonel Crossland; Thirty-fifth Alabama volunteers, Colonel. Robertson; Cobb's battery, Lieutenant Gracy. Colonel W. S. Statham.--Fifteenth Mississippi volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Farrell; Twenty-second Mississippi volunteers, Captain Hughes Nineteenth Tennessee volunteers, Lieutenant-Colonel Moore; Twentieth Tennessee volu
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
op of a house, tower, steeple, or mast, to the ground, or, better still, a ground-plate or system of buried iron pipes. Gray and Wheler, in 1720-1736, made experiments to ascertain the distance through which electric force could be transmitted, using insulated metals. Gray, in 1729, discovered the properties of electric conductors. He found that the attraction and repulsion which appear in electric bodies are exhibited also by other bodies in contact with the electric. —Whewell. Dr. Watson, in 1747, passed transmitted electricity through 2,800 feet of wire and 8,000 feet of water, using the earth circuit. Benjamin Franklin, in 1748, performed his experiments on the banks of the Schuylkill, concluded by a picnic, when spirits were fired by an electric spark sent through the river, and a turkey was killed by the electric shock, and roasted by the electric jack, before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle. The latter was the Leyden jar, the invention of Muschenbroek a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), E. (search)
that certain substances were possessed of a conductive in contradistinction to an electric power; and afterwards Nollet passed a shock through a circle of 180 men of the French guards, and along a line of men and wires 900 toises in length, while Watson in England ascertained that the transmission of the shock through 12,000 feet of wire was sensibly instantaneous. Franklin in 1747 pointed out the circumstances on which the action of the Leyden jar depends, showing that the inside is positive — used to convey messages by sparks or shocks. For notices of early observations, see electrical apparatus. Gray, in 1729, experimented with conductors; Nollet soon afterwards sent a shock along a line of men and wires 900 toises in length; Watson, the learned Bishop of Llandaff, in 1745, sent a shock through 12,000 feet of wire, and proved that it was practically instantaneous throughout its length. He signaled an observer by this means. A writer in the Scots' magazine, in 1753, propo
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), F. (search)
where it is lodged in a furrow designed to receive it, and then draws the leg briskly up and down several times against the projecting lateral edge and veins of the wing-cover. From a ballad of the fourteenth century, or thereabouts, cited in Watson's History of English poems, occurs, — Syre Ladore latte made a feste That was fair and honeste, With his lord the kynge; Ther was much minstralse, Trompus, tabors, and santre, Both harp and fydyllynge. A monumental brass of the same peri Backward. No.Name.Date. ...William Thornton and J. H. HallMay 21, 1811. 865H. L. ThistleAug. 1, 1838. 1,141N. StarrMay 3, 1839. 3,686Savage and NorthJuly 30, 1844. 5,141H. S. NorthJune 5, 1847. 11,536W. A. SweetAug. 15, 1854. *12,567A. T. WatsonMar. 20, 1855. 15,072H. GrossJune 10, 1856. 18,472Skinner and TryonOct. 20, 1857. 19,068W. BurghartJan. 12, 1858. 20,503G. W. MorseJune 8, 1858. *21,149F. B. PrindleAug. 10, 1858. 23,224Barber and ReinfriedMar. 15, 1859. 23,378E. Lindner
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
nd then a line of practical developers. If the series is to be briefly stated, we shall give it thus; Dr. Clayton, Bishop Watson, Murdoch, Winsor, Clegg; a clergyman, a bishop, an engineer, an enthusiast, a mechanic. In 1726, Dr. Hales, in his work on Vegetable Statics, states that 158 grains of coal yield 180 cubic inches of gas. In 1750, Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, distilled coal, passed the gas through water, and conveyed it in pipes from one place to another. In 1786, Lord Dundotort is then closed and luted to prevent the escape of gas. Gas-retorts. Gas-retort. Gas-apparatus. We have Mr. Watson's authority for stating that a retort holds 220 pounds, and that a bench of fifteen retorts is charged in fifteen minutffectiveness of a particular machine is in proportion to the intimateness of the contact of the gas and water therein. Dr. Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, announced the fact in 1750, that the inflammability of gas was not affected by contact with water.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
en-jar was discovered by Muschenbroeck at Leyden in 1745, hence its name. Von Kleist in Germany made the same discovery in the same year. Gralath in Germany, 1746, contrived the electric battery by combining a series of jars; and finally Drs. Watson and Bevis, by covering the outside of the jar with tinfoil, brought it to the complete state in which we now have it. The Leyden-jar is a condenser, its two coatings of tinfoil performing the parts of a collecting plate and a condensing plate.ant character. The first lightning-rod erected with a definite purpose of protection was put up by Benjamin Franklin soon after 1752, when he brought down electricity from a thunder-cloud. The first in England was set up at Payne's Hill, by Dr. Watson. In 1766 one was placed on the tower of St. Mark at Venice; it has since escaped injury, though previously it had been frequently struck by lightning. Great opposition was at first raised against the invention, and the charges of impiety we
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
n of the primary planets about the sun, and that of the moon round the earth, performed in the exact times actually occupied in those motions. The orbits of the planets are said to have their true proportions, eccentricities, positions, and obliquities to the elliptic; and by this machine, — as a distinguished author observes, — as by a perpetual ephemeris, the situations, conjunctions, and oppositions of the planets for any time may be accurately determined. We read of a planetarium by Watson, in 1689, and another constructed by Rowley, 1700, from the plans of Graham. This was the one referred to above as having come into the possession of the Earl of Orrery, and is similar to the upper one in the accompanying figure. Sir John Herschel says: As to getting correct notions on the magnitudes and distances of the planets by drawing circles on paper, or, still worse, from those very childish toys called orreries, it is out of the question. With great deference to the distinguis
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