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Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir 70 4 Browse Search
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant 28 2 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 27 1 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 24 0 Browse Search
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 22 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 20 0 Browse Search
Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant 17 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 16 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 13 3 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 1 9 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
m the lightest field-pieces. Improvised iron-clads, consisting of river steamers plated with railroad-iron, were used by both parties on the Mississippi. They were simply makeshifts, but in some cases were found to be quite formidable. The Galena was one of the first three sea-going iron-clads built for the United States government, the Monitor and New Ironsides being the other two. The Galena was a two-masted vessel, 1,000 tons, 300 horse-power, and pierced for 18 guns. Her armor was oGalena was a two-masted vessel, 1,000 tons, 300 horse-power, and pierced for 18 guns. Her armor was of overlapping corrugated plates, from 2 1/2 to 4 1/2 inches in total thickness, backed by 18 inches of oak and walnut. In service she was found not to resist shot much heavier than 64 pounds at short range, and she lost many men in her first attack on Fort Darling. The Monitor, Ericsson's first iron-clad, was a vessel of about 1,000 tons, 172 feet long, 41 feet beam, 9 feet depth of hold, the deck about 2 feet above the water-line, and overhanging the hull some 6 feet on the sides and 20 fe
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
uction, in order to decompose the oxide of lead formed during the operation, and to render the slag less fusible, that it may be the more readily removed. The lead is said to be purer than that obtained by the smelting-furnace, as the heat is lower, and the silver and lead are sweated out without reducing the other metals. In Carpenter's furnace, steam is used in conjunction with air, the two being introduced either separately or together into the space above the ore. Lead-glance. Galena. Sulphuret of lead. Lead-har′ness. That appertaining to the leading-horses of a team; in contradistinction to that for whee-horses, which have breeching to enable them to hold back the vehicle. Lead′ing-ax′le. An axle ahead of the drivingwheels in British locomotives. Lead′ing-block. （Nautical.) One for guiding the direction of a purchase or rope. Lead′ing-buoy. （Nautical.) A buoy placed as a guide in sailing. Lead′ing-light. （Nautical.) One cha
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
er, 84; zinc, 16.8.832 Copper, 67; zinc, 33.7.820 Brass plate8.380 Brass wire8.214 Bronze gun-metal8.700 Gold, English standard, 22 carats fine18.888 Ores. Copper, compact vitreous4.129 Copper, Cornish5.452 Copper, pyrites4.080-4.344 Iron, chromate4.057 Iron, pyrites4.789 Iron, magnetic4.2-4.9 Iron, red hematite4.740-5.005 Iron, brown hematite3.789-4.029 Iron, specular4.934-5.218 Iron, sparry3.64-3.81 Iron, ironstone2.952-3.863 Lead, carbonate6.00-7.20 Lead, sulphide (Galena）7.22 Tin, Cornish5.8-6.45 Zinc, calamine3.525 Stones and Mineral Substances. Agate2.348-2.637 Alabaster2.611-2.876 Amethyst2.750 Asbestus0.680-0.993 Asbestus, starry3.073 Barytes4.00-4.865 Basalt2.421-3.000 Beryl2.723-3.549 Brick1.367-1.900 Brick, fire2.201 Brick-work in mortar1.600-2.000 Brick-work in cement1.800 Carnelian2.597-2.630 Cement, Portland1.300 Cement, Roman1.560 Chalcedony2.586-2.664 Chalk1.520-2.784 Chrysolite2.782-3.489 Clay1.93-2.16 Coal, anthra