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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 15: (search)
esh, within the last few days. Having taken sights for our chronometers, on the morning after our arrival, and again to-day, I have been enabled to verify their rates. They are running very well. The chronometer of the Golden Rocket proves to be a good instrument. We fix the longitude of Curacoa to be 68° 58′ 80″, west of Greenwich. July 24th.—Sky occasionally obscured, with a moderate trade-wind. Our men have all returned from their visits to the shore, except one, a simple lad named Orr, who, as I learn, has been seduced away, by a Yankee skipper, in port, aided by the Boston hotel-keeper, and our particular friend, the consul. As these persons have tampered with my whole crew, I am gratified to know, that there has been but one traitor found among them. We had now been a week in Curacoa, during which time, besides recruiting, and refreshing my crew, I had made all the necessary preparations for another cruise. The ship had been thoroughly overhauled, inside and out, an
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
cylinder, whose entire circumference is covered with narrow fillet-cards wound spirally around it, a blank space intervening between each fillet, or is covered with strips lengthwise of the cylinder. The cylinder revolves beneath a concave shell, whose face is also lined with cards, and the teeth of each act coincidently upon the bunches of fiber to draw them apart and lay the individual fibers parallel, as explained under card. The first carding-machines built in America were made for Mr. Orr, of East Bridgewater, Mass., in 1786. The carding-machine consists of a number of rollers and drums, and one large cylinder all clothed with cards, which are so arranged as to feed, card, doff, and deliver. A portion of the circumference of the large cylinder A is inclosed by smaller toothed rollers D E F G; then succeed wooden slats lying lengthwise of the cylinder, and supported by the side at such distance as to allow the wire teeth to come into the required proximity. These slats a
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Roster of chaplains, army of Northern Virginia. (search)
Thirteenth Alabama. T. H. Howell. Wilcox's Division. Scales's Brigade. Thirteenth North Carolina. Sixteenth North Carolina. Rev. Mr. Watson. Twenty-second North Carolina. F. H. Wood. Thirty-fourth North Carolina. A. R. Benick. Thirty-eighth North Carolina. Rev. Mr. McDiarmid. McGowan's Brigade. First South Carolina. Twelfth South Carolina. Rev. Mr. Dixon; J. M. Anderson. Thirteenth South Carolina. Wallace Duncan; J. N. Bouchelle. Fourteenth South Carolina. W. B. Carson. Orr's Rifles. F. P. Mulally. Thomas's Brigade. Sixteenth Georgia. Thirty-fifth Georgia. John H. Taylor. Forty-fifth Georgia. E. B. Barrett. Forty-ninth Georgia. J. J. Hyman. Lane's Brigade. Seventh North Carolina. Eighteenth North Carolina. Twenty-eighth North Carolina. F. Milton Kennedy. Thirty-third North Carolina. T. J. Eatman. Thirty-seventh North Carolina. A. L. Stough. Mahone's Division Sorreli's Brigade. Third Georgia. J. M. Stokes. Twenty-second Georgia. W. H. Mc
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 44: (search)
e South to surrender only what the war conquered. what the war determined, and what it did not determine. the new arena of contest and the war of ideas. coarse and superficial advice to the South about material prosperity. an aspiration of Gov. Orr of South Carolina. the South should not lose its moral and intellectual distinctiveness as a people. questions outside the pale of the war. Rights, duties and hope of the South. what would be the extremity of her humiliation The record ofe individual, there is something better than pelf, and the coarse prosperity of dollars and cents. The lacerated, but proud and ambitious heart of the South will scarcely respond to the mean aspiration of the recusant Governor of South Carolina-Mr. Orr: I am tired of South Carolina as she was. I court for her the material prosperity of New England. I would have her acres teem with life and vigour and intelligence, as do those of Massachusetts. There are time-servers in every cause; there a
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 40: outrages in Kansas.—speech on Kansas.—the Brooks assault.—1855-1856. (search)
ere in the habit of asserting for themselves, belittled Sumner's wounds, and pretended to believe that he was shamming. Orr did the some in the House. July 9, Congressional Globe, App. p. 806. This was the common talk of Brooks's partisans. New as inevitably published in the Congressional Globe by command of the body itself. While the more respectable opponents Orr. Cobb, and Boyce. Congressional Globe. App. pp. 805, 809, 812. of the resolutions sheltered themselves under a technicalbecame active in its civil or military service,— Jefferson Davis, Toombs, Iverson, Slidell, Mason, Hunter, Clingman, Cobb, Orr, and Keitt. A profound feeling of indignation pervaded the free States, already deeply moved by pro-slavery violence inan. 31, 1857. He did not enjoy his honors as the representative of bullies, and, according to a statement of his colleague Orr to Wilson, so confessed. Rise and Fall of the Slave Power, vol. II. p. 495. Northern members of Congress and their wiv
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
nor. Gottingen, November 9, 1816. Once more, dear father and mother, I date to you from Gottingen, but from Gottingen how changed! Five days ago we arrived here, after an absence of eight weeks. As I entered the city, I felt in some sort as if I were returning home, for I knew that I was returning to that quiet occupation which in Europe is my only happiness; but I did not dream of what awaited me. I sprang from the carriage to go to my room, but was stopped by an Irishman of the name of Orr, who studies here, with the question, Do you know two of your countrymen are here? Is it Cogswell? said I, involuntarily; not because I trusted myself to hope it, but because it was what I desired beyond anything else in the compass of possibility. In a moment I was with him, at The Crown; and though I had not been in bed for thirty-six hours, I did not get to my room till midnight . . . . And yet, when I have been alone, I have had enough to think of The first announcement of his nom
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
h of a commissioner from Mississippi. The State of South Carolina secedes December 20th, and appoints Barnwell, Adams and Orr commissioners to proceed to Washington to treat for the possession of the United States property within the limits of thatassembling in Charleston a committee to draft an ordinance of secession was appointed composed of Inglis, Rhett, Chestnut, Orr, Maxcy Gregg, Dunkin and Hudson. In addition to this committee others were appointed on relations with the Southern Stateanarchy. The distinguished commissioners to the United States appointed by the convention—Mr. Barnwell, Mr. Adams and Mr. Orr, reached Washington on the 26th, and on the 28th sent in their credentials with a letter to the President. By the untimnd Sparrow from Louisiana; Brown and Phelan from Mississippi; Clark from Missouri; Davis from North Carolina; Barnwell and Orr from South Carolina; Haynes and Henry from Tennessee; Oldham and Wigfall from Texas; Hunter and Caperton from Virginia. I
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter II (search)
at the Federal government was bound to protect the slaves as well as the other property of citizens settling in these territories. This added fuel to the flame of abolitionism. In the presidential election of 1856, a Free Soil or Abolition party, under the name of the Republican party, engaged in the contest for the presidency which resulted in the election of James Buchanan, of Pennsylvania, a Democrat. The Congress that met in December of that year was organized with a Southern speaker, Orr, of South Carolina, and the struggle as to whether Kansas should be admitted as a slaveholding State was continued with ever-increasing bitterness until it caused a split in the Democratic party. About this time appeared one of the most remarkable romances, under the name of Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, that was ever published. Its overdrawn and highly-colored picture of Southern slavery greatly intensified anti-slavery feeling throughout the North, and even provoked
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 34: (search)
ter the war, when he was received, as few conquerors ever were by the people whom they had subdued, looked upon as their best friend, their protector, their savior from the bitterness of successful enemies. Everywhere the most important Southerners, the soldiers who had surrendered last, the civilians who had been most stubborn, as well as the scattered loyalists and the emancipated blacks, greeted Grant. In Charleston General Sickles gave him a dinner, and the party was made up of men like Orr and Aiken and others who had been his enemies. I went with him also on his first visit to Richmond, a year after it fell, for he had not time to stop and enter in the hour of triumph like other victors, but pushed on after Lee. So too I accompanied him in his journeyings over the North amid the ovations which this generation hardly remembers, but which equaled any ever paid to an American. I went with him when he left his country for the first time—it was to pass through Canada in 186
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 45: (search)
ard the fallen enemy. He had long discussions with Sickles, that lasted late into the night, receiving the opinions of his lieutenant, and basing his own directions upon them, for the two were in complete accord. I accompanied Grant on this tour and remember well with what warm approval he spoke of Sickles's course. Sickles gave General Grant a dinner during his stay and asked many important Southerners to his table to meet the Commander of the Union armies; among them ex-Governor Aiken; Orr, who had been Speaker of the House of Representatives, and an intimate friend of Sickles in other times; Trenholm, the Confederate Secretary of the Treasury; Magraw, the last of the rebel Governors of South Carolina, and Trescot, the rebel diplomatist. All were animated by a grateful feeling toward the hero of Appomattox; all were submissive, and anxious to conform to the terms which he had proposed; and Grant himself was still in harmony with the President. There were stanch Union men als
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