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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
that dropped them in the midst of the Confederates. General Nelson, who led Buell's advance, had crossed the river with Ammon's brigade, and bore an important part in repelling the assailants. The crushing blow which the latter expected to give wCrittenden, and Alexander McDowell McCook. Nelson's division was composed of three brigades: the first, commanded by Colonel Ammon, consisted of the Sixth and Twenty-fourth Ohio, and Thirty-sixth Indiana; the second, Colonel Bruce, consisted of thewhen the booming of Wallace's heavy guns on the right was heard, they both moved forward, Nelson's division leading, with Ammon's brigade on the extreme left, Bruce's in the center, and Hazen's on the right. Nelson's artillery, which was to be sentwas most salutary, for it soon silenced the right battery of the Confederates; but Terrell was speedily forced back, with Ammon's brigade, when a regiment from Boyle's brigade re-enforced Nelson's left, and it again moved forward and drove the foe.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 232 (search)
of Succoth die, So fare these the same! Though sharp be the throes of these last tribulations, Look ye! a brighter dawn kindles the day! Oh, children of Saints, and the hope of the Nation, Look aloft! your deliverance comet for aye! Soon, from those fairer skies, White-winged, the herald flies To the warders of Paradise, To call them away! Then on to the battle-shock! and if in anguish, Gasping, and feeble-pulsed, low on the field, Struck down by the traitor's fell prowess ye languish, In Jehovah behold ye your Refuge and Shield! Or, if, in victory, Doubts shall come thick to ye, Trust in Him — He shall speak to ye The mystery revealed. Ho! sons of the Puritan! sons of the Roundhead! Leave your fields fallow, your ships at the shore! The foe is advancing — the trumpet hath sounded, And the jaws of their Moloch are dripping with gore! Raise the old pennon's staff! Let the fierce cannons laugh, Till the votaries of Ammon's calf Blaspheme ye no more! --Boston Transcript, July
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 71 (search)
dvance of the movement. It was accompanied by a detachment of cavalry, and a piece from Daum's Virginia battery. They were guided by A. F. Nicholas, the brave and daring Illinois scout. Then there was quiet in camp, but not a long quiet. At half-past 11, first one hill-side and then another poured forth its column of armed men. A line was formed on the road, and at midnight precisely the Ninth Indiana, Colonel Millroy; the Fourteenth Indiana, Col. Kimball, and the Twenty-fourth Ohio, Col. Ammon, moved off in the order named. A half hour later, and the Seventeenth Indiana, Lieut.-Col. Wilder commanding; Capt. Loomis' celebrated Michigan artillery; the Fourteenth Indiana; Howe's battery of regular artillery; a detachment of cavalry, and one gun of Daum's Virginia battery, rattled down the mountain. Then there was quiet again on the mountain, during which your reporter was enabled to take a short nap in the open air, before a log fire. It was nine o'clock when the strains of a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
full when the battle opened Monday morning, but the lacking regiments were gradually brought into the rear. To save future delay I give here a list of his troops, and of Lew. Wallace's, engaged: Brig.-Gen. Nelson's division--First brigade, Col. Ammon, Twenty-fourth Ohio, commanding--Thirty-sixth Indiana, Col. Gross; Sixth Ohio, Lieut.--Colonel Anderson; Twenty-fourth Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Fred. C. Jones. Second brigade, Saunders D. Bruce, Twentieth Kentucky, commanding--First Kentucky, Col. ance. To the left we were slower in finding the enemy. They had been compelled to travel some distance to get out of gunboat range. Nelson moved his division about the same time Wallace opened on the rebel battery, forming in line of battle, Ammon's brigade on the extreme left, Bruce's in the centre, and Hazen's to the right. Skirmishers were thrown out, and for nearly or quite a mile the division thus swept the country, pushing a few outlying rebels before it, till it came upon them in f
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 139 (search)
were three in number-one of three thirty-pounder Parrott guns, commanded by Capt. Lewis O. Morris, of company C, First artillery, (regulars ;) one of four ten-inch mortars, commanded by Lieut. D. W. Flagler in person; and one of four eight-inch mortars, commanded by Second Lieut. M. F. Prouty, of company C, Twenty-fifth Massachusetts volunteers. Capt. Morris was assisted by First Lieut. Cowan and Second Lieut. Pollock ; Lieut. Flagler by Capt. Duncan A. Pell, of Gen. Burnside's staff, and Capt. Ammon, of the Third New-York artillery; Lieut. Prouty in part by Capt. Caswell and his fighting sailor, James Judge. The mortars were worked by detachments from company I, Third New-York artillery, the Parrotts by Capt. Morris's own regulars. The batteries were all constructed at the rear of the sand-hills, the sides and front being formed of sand-bags, of which the walls of the service-magazine were also made. The platforms were laid as substantially as the shifting nature of the sand would
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Corwin, Thomas 1794-1865 (search)
hty MacEDONIANdonian madman, when he wandered with his Greeks to the plains of India, and fought a bloody battle on the very ground where recently England and the Sikhs engaged in strife for room, was, no doubt, in quest of some California there. Many a Monterey had he to storm to get room. Sir, he made quite as much of that sort of history as you ever will. Mr. President, do you remember the last chapter in that history? It is soon read. Oh! I wish we could but understand its moral. Ammon's son (so was Alexander named), after all his victories, died drunk in Babylon! The vast empire he conquered to get room became the prey of the generals he had trained; it was disparted, torn to pieces, and so ended. Sir, there is a very significant appendix; it is this: the descendants of the Greeks— of Alexander's Greeks—are now governed by the descendants of Attila! Mr. President, while we are fighting for room, let us ponder deeply this appendix. I was somewhat amazed, the other day,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
This is sometimes quite submerged, at others partly above the water, and is always attached to some objects near it by a number of irregular threads. It is closed all round, but has a large opening below, which is closed when the insect is hibernating. The diving-bell is said to have been used in Phoenicia 320 B. C. This was about twelve years after the capture of insular Tyre by Alexander, and perhaps was used in the recovery of valuables thrown into the sea to prevent capture by young Ammon. Aristotle (350 B. C.) speaks of a kind of kettle by which divers could supply themselves with fresh air under water. It is related by Jerome that Alexander the Great entered into a vessel, called a colympha, having a glass window to it, and in which he descended to the bottom of the ocean. The application of the diving-bell in Europe is noticed by John Tasnier, who attended Charles V. in a voyage to Africa. He relates that he saw at Toledo, in Spain, in the year 1538, in the presenc
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), O. (search)
her the oars, others the ivory, ebony, and sandalwood for adorument; Palestine contributed its iron. Copper from the same land and the Caucasus was mingled with the tin from the far-off Cassiterides, the first contribution of Britain to the common stock of the world's merchandise, and which had the honor of forming with copper the alloy which made the brazen (bronze) laver and furniture of Solomon's Temple. Though littoral Tyre was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and insular Tyre by young Ammon, the rough he-goat, the king of Grecia, yet she survived in her colonies until the Roman maelstrom drew them all into its vortex and swamped the distinctiveness of many nations. The best picture of the time is that given in Ezekiel XXVII. (which see). Machines are made for dressing, planing, riving, and splitting oars, but do not differ so specially from machines for getting out and dressing stuff for other purposes as to require elaborate description here. 2. (Brewing.) A blade
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
s and twelve oxen, two oxen to a wagon, for the use of the Levites: two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershom, and four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari. — Numbers VII. 3, 7. Camels are not shown in the Egyptian paintings, and could not have been in come on use in that country in Pharaonic times. Their use had long been known in Persia, and some were probably introduced by the immigrating Israelites. Cambyses failed to reach the oasis and temple of Ammon, probably from want of camels. Herodotus refers to the carts and wagons of the Scythians (see cart). Aeschylus, in his Prometheus bound, speaks of the Wandering Scyths who dwell In latticed huts high poised on easy wheels. One of their wagons, measured by Rubruquis, had a distance of 20 feet between the wheels: the axle was like the mast of a sloop, and it was hauled by 22 oxen, 11 abreast (Fig. 7002). Marco Polo, who traveled through this country 1275-1295, states that their h
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers. (search)
. A, E, H, I, L and M ). At Charleston, Tenn., till August, 1864 (Cos. B, C, F, G and K ); then at Cleveland till October. Action with Wheeler near Cleveland August 17. Charleston August 19. Pursuit of Wheeler August 22-28. Moved to Loudoun, Tenn., October 9, and duty there till November 18. Morristown November 13. Russellsville November 14. Tillson's movement to Strawberry Plains, Tenn., November 16-17. Flat Creek November 17. At Knoxville till December 7. Ammon's Expedition to Bean's Station December 7-29 (Co. A duty at Knoxville till January 9, 1865). At Camp Rothrock and Fort Saunders till August. Company B duty at Knoxville, Camp Rothrock and Fort Saunders till August. Cos. C, D, E and F at Knoxville, Camp Rothrock and Loudoun till August. Co. G at Nashville till February 1, 1865, and at Athens till August. Skirmish at Athens February 16, 1865 (Detachment). Sweetwater February 16 (Detachment). Company H at Strawberry Plains
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