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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 110 (search)
her we have really crossed. I wish, my dear mother, I could better tell you of these great matters. But it is easier for you to imagine how tired I am than for me to tell you. In the last thirty-six hours, I have slept two. I am proud to have borne my humble part in these great operations — to have helped, even so little, to consummate the grand plan, whose history will be a text-book to all young soldiers, arid whose magnificent success places Lee at the side of the greatest captains, Hannibal, Caesar, Eugene, Napoleon. I hope you have preserved my letters in which I have spoken of my faith in Lee. He and his round-table of generals are worthy the immortality of Napoleon and his Marshals. He moves his agencies like a god--secret, complicated, vast, resistless, complete. Richmond Examiner account. Richmond, September 3, 1862. Passengers by the Central Railroad, now almost our only source of information from our armies at Manassas, brought down with them yesterday eve
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 20: (search)
in the slightest degree. There mere troops enough without him to hold the works against anything that the enemy could have sent against them, and the more they sent the easier would my task have been in front of Richmond. But Jackson's movement was merely a feint, and if McDowell had joined me on the James the enemy would have drawn in every available man from every quarter to make head against me. A little of the nerve at Washington which the Romans displayed during the campaign against Hannibal would have settled the fate of Richmond in very few weeks. The following telegram was received at headquarters, Army of the Potomac, May 24, 1862: headquarters Department of Rappahannock, opposite Fredericksburg, May 22, 1862. Maj.-Gen. G. B. McClellan: I have received the orders of the President to move with the army under my command and co-operate with yours in the reduction of Richmond, and also a copy of his instructions to you in relation to that co-operation. Maj.-Gen. S
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
sGeorge FullerHenry HoveyBoston205 93 ShipIsraelSprague & James'sSprague & JamesIsrael ThorndikeBoston355 94 ShipLucillaSprague & James'sSprague & JamesD. P. ParkerBoston369 951823ShipMogulT. Magoun'sT. MagounJones, Glover, and othersBoston388 96 ShipNew EnglandT. Magoun'sT. MagounD. P. ParkerBoston380 97 BrigClarionS. Lapham's------RogersHall & CurtisBoston165 98 Sch.LucretiaS. Lapham's------RogersE. HaywoodBoston82 99 Sch.TremiumS. Lapham's------RogersRobert RipleyBoston62 100 ShipHannibal Struck with lightning, at sea, on her passage from Charleston to Liverpool, and burnt, with the loss of a part of her crew.Sprague & James'sSprague & JamesAustin & LewisBoston317 101 BrigGrecian Burnt at the wharf, in New Orleans.Sprague & James'sSprague & JamesR. D. ShepherdBoston244 102 BrigPheasantGeorge Fuller'sGeorge FullerHenry HoveyBoston170 103 Sch.SpyGeorge Fuller'sGeorge FullerStanton, Fisk, & NicholsBoston110 1041824BrigSuffolkT. Magoun'sT. MagounBlake, Magoun, and o
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Preface 4: the strategy of the Civil War (search)
hundred years of military history. The campaigns of Lee and Jackson were models of their kind. Napoleon has said that the general who makes no mistakes never goes to war. The critic of Lee finds it hard to detect mistakes. No general since Hannibal, and perhaps Napoleon, in the last two years of his campaigns, has made war under greater disadvantages and accomplished so much with an inferior force. While all great generals before him inherited a ready-made army, Lee, like Washington, madeomplished the desired result, but with severe losses, it is true. After all is said, the subject may be narrowed down to the statement that Lee, Jackson, and perhaps Johnston handled inferior forces with as great skill as any commanders since Hannibal and Napoleon. On the other side it was also an American soldier, even before Sedan and Mukden, who formulated the modern idea of strategy which has been so closely followed in recent wars — to seek out the foe, get close to him, and fight it
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Meeting at the White Sulphur Springs. (search)
eneral Dick Taylor, that he employed the tactics of Frederick at Leuthen and Zorndorf, without even having heard these names. First, his reckless courage in making the attack — a rule which he invariably followed and which tended always to intimidate his adversary. Second, his quick dismounting of his men to fight, showing that he regarded horses mainly as a rapid means of transportation for his troops. Third, his intuitive adoption of the flank attack, so successfully used by Alexander, Hannibal and Tamerlane — so demoralizing to an enemy even in an open field, and so much more so when made, as Forrest often did, under cover of woods which concealed the weakness of the attacking party. Fourth, his fierce and untiring pursuit which so often changes retreat into rout and makes victory complete. If our Confederate leaders had pursued their victory at Manassas, Shiloh and Chickamauga as Forrest pursued this his first victory; as he pursued Streight in the mountains of Alabama; as he
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navy of the United States (search)
y-shipS.1,890S... Culgoaa6,300Supply-shipS.al,500.... Saturna6,220CollierI.1,500S.b2 Rainbow6,206Distilling-shipS.1,800S... Arethusaa6,200Tank steamerS.....S... Alexander6,181CollierS.1,026S.b2 Iris6,100Distilling-shipS.1,300S... Brutusa6,000CollierS.1,200S.b2 Sterling5,663CollierI.a926S.b2 Caesar5,016CollierS.1,500S.b4 Nero4,925CollierS.1,000S.b4 Nanshana4,827CollierS......... Abarenda4,670CollierS.1,050S.b4 Supply4,460Supply-shipI.1,069S.b2 Marcellusa4,400CollierI.1,200S.b2 Hannibal4,291CollierS.1,100S.b2 Leonidas4,242CollierS.1,100S.b2 Lebanon3,375CollierI......S.b4 Justin3,300CollierS......S.b2 Southerya3,100CollierI......S.b2 Pompeya3,085CollierS......S.b2 Zafiroa2,000Supply-shipS.......... General Alava1,400TransportS.770S.b4 Yankton975Gunboat (converted)S.750S.b8 Vesuvius929Dynamite-gun vesselS.3,795T. S.b3 Petrel892GunboatS.1,095S.c4 Scorpion850Gunboat (converted)S.2,800T. S.b8 Fern840TenderW.300S.b3 Bancroft839GunboatS.1,213T. S.c4 Vixen806Gunboat
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
In the example, the rocking table has lateral concavities furnished with agitating pins and vertical discharge-openings. The table has longitudinal and vertical motion from cranks on two shafts having different speeds, and connected by a belt over pulleys on said shafts. Shaking-table. Shal′LI. （Fabric.) A twilled cloth made from the hair of the Angora goat. Shal-loon′. （Fabric.) From Chalons, in France. A kind of worsted stuff, formerly used. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be glad. swift. Shal′lop. （Nautical.) a. A light fishingves-sel with two masts and lug or fore-and-aft sails. b. A sloop. A one-masted, undecked, foreand-aft rigged vessel. c. A boat for one or two rowers. Sham′bles. （Mining.) Shelves, stages, or benches on to which the ore is thrown successively in raising. Sham′my. Properly chamois. A kind of soft leather, originally prepared from the skin of the chamois goat; but that usually met with is made of
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
se islands petitioned the Romans for another land. They were eventually subdued by ferrets from Africa. (Strabo, Book III:) Pliny refers to similar instances of overrunning by animals, in Lib. VIII. chapter 29. The inhabitants of Abdera, in Thrace, were driven out of their town by rats and frogs, and settled on the frontiers of Macedonia. (Justin, Lib. XV. chapter 2.) Frogs annoyed the Egyptians once upon a time. At Casilinum (Nova Capua), 500 men of Praeneste sustained against Hannibal, in the hight of his power, so desperate a siege, that, by reason of the famine, a rat was sold for 200 drachmee, the seller dying of hunger and the buyer surviving. — Strabo,Book V: chapter 4. Cats are not mentioned in the canonical Bible, but were common in Egypt; they accompanied fowlers on their excursions, and were much revered. It was a capital crime to kill one. When they died they were embalmed, and buried at Bubastis. A cat is mentioned in the Apocrypha, and the animal is ref
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
nice. The formacean walls, described by Pliny, were molded rather than built, as he says, by ramming earth within a frame of boards, constructed on either side. He declares them very lasting, and refers to the earthen watch-towers erected by Hannibal on the summits of the mountains in Spain. The earth so rammed, I can assure you, does continue for years in an imperishable state, and is neither affected by rain, by wind, nor by fire, and neither mortar nor cement is used in them. These musting auditors to beware of wearing dead peoples' hair. Clemens of Alexandria declared that the episcopal blessing stayed in the wig and would not percolate through to the scalp. The Greeks and Romans used false hair, and likewise hairpowder. Hannibal wore what may be called a wig; that of the Emperor Commodus was anointed with grease, powdered with gold-dust, and scented. The fashion was again set by St. Louis on his return bald-headed from the crusades. Henry III. of France had a skull-c
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Illinois Volunteers. (search)
ny G, 19th Illinois Infantry, organized at Chicago, Ill., and mustered in June 17, 1861. Moved to Quincy, Ill., July 12-13, thence to Palmyra, Mo., July 14, and guard Hannibal & St. Joseph R. R. from Quincy to Palmyra and between Palmyra and Hannibal till July 27. Moved to Hannibal, thence to St. Louis, Mo., and to Bird's Point and Norfolk. Duty at Norfolk till August 14. Moved to Ironton August 14. Prentiss' Expedition toward Dallas and Jackson August 29-September 8. Moved to 4, 1861. Regiment organized at Chicago, Ill., and mustered in June 17, 1861. Moved to Quincy, Ill., July 12-13, 1861. Thence to Palmyra, Mo., July 14, and guard Hannibal and St. Jo. R. R. from Quincy to Palmyra and between Palmyra and Hannibal till July 27. Moved to Hannibal, thence to St. Louis, Mo., and to Bird's Point and Norfolk, Mo., and duty at Norfolk till August 14. Moved to Ironton, Mo., August 14. Attached to Department of Missouri to September, 1861. Dept. of Ke
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