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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 215 (search)
observed, implicit obedience was maintained; for if a man declined or moved tardily, a blow from sabre or butt of a pistol enforced the order. It was stated by the men that four of the army had been shot for straggling since leaving Leesburgh. They were entirely in the dark as to their future movements, expecting, however, to go either to Baltimore or to Pennsylvania. During the day several medical officers called, among others a Dr. Coleman, Medical Director of Jackson. He was an Oily Gammon sort of an individual; very anxious about my instruments, quinine, etc.; but as we had either sent away or hidden these things, he got none. In the afternoon I saw brought in, a prisoner, one of the men of Best's battery--Sergeant Driscoll. Although no communication took place between us, I felt very certain that Banks's force was near at hand. From this circumstance all our hopes were much raised, but doomed to disappointment; for, as I afterward learned, he had been sent up here by th
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
. Jarndyce, on whose numerous difficulties, contingencies, masterly fictions, and forms of procedure there had been expended study, ability, eloquence, knowledge, high intellect, the power of the bar, and the matured autumnal fruits of the woolsack. Such is the opinion (paid for) of Counsellor Kenge, as reported by a distinguished writer, a good judge of such matters. Singular that the said author should have summed up the result as Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach. Next in the list of public benefactors, who devoted himself to the art of cheapening fabrics and elevating labor, appears the name of Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the mule-spinner. The mode of spinning by the drawing-frame subjects the thread to so great tension that it is not possible to draw it as fine as is required for many purposes. It became necessary, therefore, to make machinery more nearly approximating the action of the spinning-wheel, in which the human ha
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Republic of Republics. (search)
uote his criticism upon the term, constitutional compact, which he shows to be correct, and for the use of which Mr. Webster charged Mr. Calhoun with abandoning constitutional language for a new vocabulary. But the want of space compels us to omit this and much valuable matter. We must pause, however, awhile on a forgery which we had supposed the very perverters would not dare to commit. To find its parallel we must resort to the pages of fiction. In a modern novel a cunning lawyer, Oily Gammon, is made to meditate the forgery of a tombstone. What shall we say to forging the definitions of a lexicon, for the purpose of falsifying the Constitution, and still more wonderful that the proprieties are thus violated on the reputation of Noah Webster, who, it seems, was quite a model man for learning and just principle. Indeed, his principles, it seems, were strict enough to have shamed the whole school of perverters from Dane to Curtis. Noah Webster always asserted, according to the u
The Daily Dispatch: January 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Spirit of the war. (search)
heir exhibition of fleetness is said to have far outstripped the famous Bull Run stampede. From Gen. Zollicoffer's command. Reports have prevailed for several days past that the Yankees had surrouneed Gen. Zollicoffer, and that he was likely to suffer from his position. These reports, however, were without foundation, as will be seen from the following paragraph, which we take from the Greenville (Tenn.) Banner, of the 15th inst.: A few days since we met at our depot with Capt. Gammon, directly from Limestone Springs, Ky., where Zollicoffer is preparing winter quarters. We told the Captain of the reports that were afloat here — that it was likely that Gen. Zollicoffer and his army were surrounded, to which the Captain replied that he was surrounded with the safest kind of breastworks, and that the Yankees were well aware of it, and that they kept out of their reach. The Captain said they were ready for all the Yankees that could come against them at that point, that
The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Who are Americans? (search)
heir feet, and dansed upon its torn fragments like so many howling dervishes; they have erected a colossal military despotism upon the ruins of republican liberty. They do not seem to be the same men, intellectually and morally, any more than politically. Not a single statesman is left within their whole borders. Instead of the Clintons, Spencers, Grosvenor, Livingston, Van Nesses, and Van Renselaers, of New York, there is that miserable scrub, Seward, combining a Gilbert Glossin and Oily Gammon, an educated blackguard — of all blackguards, the most disgusting — a fellow without birth, reeding, or any of the ideas or feelings of a gentleman, and whose whole career has never exhibited one single example of sagacious and comprehensive statesmanship. Instead of the spirit of Americanism which many years ago animated the Northern masses, there has risen that vile spirit of section which, in the choice of Abraham Lincoln, declared that the North should be master of the South; an infamou
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], The enemy in Upper East Tennessee. (search)
f the Atlanta Register, writing from Upper East Tennessee, promises some cheering news from that direction. He adds: As the Yankees drop down the country they commit all sorts of depredations. They are taking all the wheat, corn, hay, and hogs they can find, and laying waste everything before them. At Rogersville they destroyed all the fencing for miles. Col. George R. Powell, Cashier of the Branch Bank of Tennessee, they have almost and numbers of others of the same vicinity. Capt. Gammon, who was for so long a time Quartermaster at Knoxville, they have stripped; and they went so far as to order his excellent lady to cook for them ! But, like a true Southern woman, us she is, she told them to begone. As they go, crowd of Union people, including women and children, go with them, and it is said that Cumberland Gap is blockaded with them. It is certainly true that nearly all of them have left Jonesboro' and Greenville. Hon. N. G. Taylor, a preacher of right countless, has