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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (search)
ipped with appliances for both shop drawings and construction that the old joke becomes almost true that they can make bridges and sell them by the mile. All improvements of design are now publie property. All that the bridge companies do is done in the fierce light of competition. Mistakes mean ruin, and the fittest only survives. The American system gives the greatest possible rapidity of erection of the bridge on its piers. A span of 518 feet, weighing 1,000 tons, was erected at Cairo on the Mississippi in six days. The parts were not assembled until they were put upon the false works. European engineers have sometimes ordered a bridge to be riveted together complete in the maker's yard, and then taken apart. The adoption of American work in such bridges as the Atbara in South Africa, the Gokteik viaduct in Burmah, 320 feet high, and others, was due to low cost, quick delivery and erection, as well as excellence of material and construction. Foundations, etc. Br
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grant, Ulysses Simpson (search)
1, he was appointed a brigadier-general of volunteers, and placed in command at Cairo. He occupied Paducah, broke up the Confederate camp at Belmont, and in Februaremies. The grounds of his enmity I suppose to be the course I pursued while at Cairo towards certain contractors and speculators who wished to make fortunes off of a partner or not. He called on me in regard to the rights of a post sutler for Cairo (an appointment not known to the law) whom he had got appointed. Finding that the contracts. Quite a number of car-loads of grain and hay were brought to Cairo on these contracts, and a change of quartermaster having taken place in the meo objection to the contract he had approved it. The parties then returned to Cairo evidently thinking they had gained a great triumph. But there being no money tThese letters I have preserved, but they are locked up in Mr. Safford's safe in Cairo. I afterwards learned from undoubted authority that there was a combination of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weed, Thurlow 1797-1882 (search)
Weed, Thurlow 1797-1882 Journalist; born in Cairo, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1797; became an orphan in early childhood, with a very scant school education; learned the printer's trade. When fifteen years of age he entered the army as a volunteer, serving throughout the War of 1812 as quartermaster-sergeant; at the age of twenty-one began the publication of a newspaper, the Agriculturist, at Norwich, N. Y. Two years later he founded the Onondaga county Republican. He was unsuccessful, and worked as a journeyman printer until 1825, when he was engaged to edit a daily paper at Rochester, N. Y., an anti-masonic paper, and was twice elected to the legislature. In 1830 he became editor of the Albany Evening journal, in opposition to the Albany regency, the nullification policy of Calhoun, and also to the policy of President Jackson, and conducted it with great ability more than thirty years. Throughout this period he was influential in both State and national politics, and became known as the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
bursts her boiler 80 miles below Memphis; about 100 lives lost......June 13, 1858 Steamer Princess explodes boiler and burns near Baton Rouge; twenty-five killed, thirty-five injured......Feb. 27, 1859 Steamer Ben. W. Lewis bursts boiler at Cairo; fifty lives lost......June 24, 1860 Steamer Miami explodes boilers, burns, and sinks; 150 lives lost......Jan. 30, 1866 Steamer Stonewall burned below Cairo; 200 lives lost......Oct. 27, 1869 Steamer T. L. McGill burned; fifty-eight livCairo; 200 lives lost......Oct. 27, 1869 Steamer T. L. McGill burned; fifty-eight lives lost......Jan. 14, 1871 Steamer H. R. Arthur explodes; eightyseven lives lost......Jan. 28, 1871 Steamer Oceanus explodes; forty lives lost......April 11, 1872 Steamer George Wolfe explodes; thirty lives lost......Aug. 23, 1873 Steamer Golden City burned near Memphis; twenty lives lost......March 30, 1882 Steamer Robert E. Lee burned 30 miles below Vicksburg; twenty-one lives lost......Sept. 30, 1882 Steamer Yazoo strikes a log 35-mile point above New Orleans, and sinks; ni
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 147 (search)
utant, J. B. Hardenburgh; Engineer, D. T. Van Buren; Hospital Surgeon, (assigned to duty in the brigade,) A. Crispell; Surgeon, C. Leonard Ingersoll; Assistant Surgeon, Robert Longham; Quartermaster, John S. Giffin; Paymaster, P. T. Overbaugh; Commissary, W. Sonnsby; Chaplain, Rev. H. H. Reynolds. Non-commissioned Staff.--Quartermaster Sergeant, P. F. Hasbrouck; Sergeant of Infantry, W. Webster Shaffer; Drum-Major, Geo. Myers; Fife-Major, A. Goller. Line Officers.--Company A, of Cairo, Greene county, First Lieutenant, A. G. Barker, commanding; Second Lieutenant, James Stevens. Company B, of Kingston, Captain G. H. Sharpe; First Lieutenant, Jacob Sharpe; Second Lieutenant, Cornelius Houghtaling. Company C, of Kingston, Captain, J. Rudolph Tappen; First Lieutenant, Walter W. Van Ranselaer; Second Lieutenant, Peter S. Voorhees. Company D, of Shokan, Ulster county, Captain, David Winne; First Lieutenant, John Hussy; Second Lieutenant, John W. Schoonmaker. Company E, of El
The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], By the Governor of Virginia — a proclamation. (search)
nt of Mr. Arnold, that if such a canal as he proposes had been in existence, the "fifteen thousand sailors now shut up on the Lakes would have been at the disposal of the Government"--overlooking the fact that if patriotism and railroads have not carried them to Cairo and to the Atlantic coast, a ship canal would hardly have done so. We have heard in our day of a great many sailor peculiarities, but never until now have we heard it alleged that they cannot get from Chicago or Buffalo to Cairo, New York, or Philadelphia, upon railroads as other people do, but can only go upon the Illinois and New York canals, and not then unless the locks are enlarged! The West should learn to depend upon itself, as we have done. We have built our railroads and canals without help from the Treasury, while our public lands have been lavished upon every railroad scheme that speculators could bolster up in the neighborhood of the Mississippi. During our recent exuberant prosperity we have borne thi