hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Chapter XXII: Operations in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama, and Southwest Virginia. March 4-June 10, 1862. (ed. Lieut. Col. Robert N. Scott) 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 2 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General . 2 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 333 results in 143 document sections:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 8: (search)
en. We started early in this matter, and have well nigh exhausted our resources. On September 19th General Johnston telegraphed to me: Thirty thousand stand of arms are a necessity to my command. I beg you to order them, or as many as can be got, to be instantly procured and sent with dispatch. The Secretary of War replied: The whole number received by us, by that steamer, was eighteen hundred, and we purchased of the owners seventeen hundred and eighty, making in all thirty-five hundred Enfield rifles, of which we have been compelled to allow the governor of Georgia to have one thousand for arming troops to repel an attack now hourly threatened at Brunswick. Of the remaining twenty-five hundred, I have ordered one thousand sent to you, leaving us but fifteen hundred for arming several regiments now encamped here, and who have been awaiting their arms for several months. . . . We have not an engineer to send you. The whole engineer corps comprises only six captains together with t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Underwood, Francis Henry 1850-1894 (search)
Underwood, Francis Henry 1850-1894 Author; born in Enfield, Mass.; educated in Amherst; taught in Kentucky; and was admitted to the bar; returned to Massachusetts in 1850, and was active in the anti-slavery cause; was clerk of the State Senate in 1852, assisted in the management of the Atlantic monthly for two years; clerk of the Superior Court of Boston for eleven years; United States consul to Glasgow in 1885; and wrote Hand-book of American Literature; biographical sketches of Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, etc. He died in Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 7, 1894.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 246 (search)
, D. Morrison; 1st Lieut., J. B. Ayres; 2d Lieut., J. B. Sinclair. Company F--Captain, James Christie; 1st Lieut., R. McNie; 2d Lieut., vacant. Company G--Captain, James Laing; 1st Lieut., J. L. Dick; 2d Lieut., W. B. Ives. Company H--Captain, James Colter; 1st Lieut., Robert Campbell; 2d Lieut., Wm. B. Drake. Company I--Captain, R. T. Shillinglaw; 1st Lieut., W. B. Elliott; 2d Lieut., George Pier. Company K--Captain, H. A. Ellis; 1st Lieut., S. R. Elliott; 2d Lieut, vacant. Lieut.-Col. Elliott has three sons in the regiment. The arms of the regiment consist of about 100 Enfield rifles, and 700 altered muskets, and the ordinary bayonet. Sixty members of the 71st go out with the 79th to join their comrades in Washington. They are under the command of Capt. Ellis, and will form a part of the engineer corps of that regiment. Twenty-five members of the 9th Regiment, N. Y. S. M., also go to Washington with the 79th. They are in charge of Sergeant Strong.--N. Y. Tribune, June 3.
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 5: (search)
to the tendency of public events staring us in the face, and how little it expected a long and bloody war with the North, General Beauregard relates that, soon after the fall of Sumter, one Major Huse—a gentleman in every sense of the word —came to the city of Charleston, from Montgomery, with a pass from the Secretary of War, authorizing him to leave for Europe, on what he termed a secret mission. He confidentially informed General Beauregard that he was empowered to purchase ten thousand Enfield rifles for the Confederate War Department. On his being asked whether he had not made an error in the number, so insignificantly small did it appear, he replied: No, those were all he had been instructed to buy. Why, said General Beauregard, I could have ordered them at once through the house of John Frazer & Co., without the necessity of sending a special messenger to Europe on such a trifling errand. A few months later, at Manassas, General Toombs confirmed the statement of Major Huse.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
he bullet. Bul′let-screw. One at the end of a ramrod to penetrate a bullet and enable the latter to be withdrawn from the piece. See ball-screw. Bullet-shell. An explosive bullet for smallarms. Jacobs's bullet-shells, used with the rifle of General Jacobs of the East India service, have an inclosed copper tube containing the bursting-charge, which may be fulminate or common powder, and is exploded by a percussion-cap or globule on striking. In experiments made with them at Enfield in 1857, caissons were blown up at distances of 2,000 and 2,400 yards; and brick-walls much damaged at those distances by their explosion. See bullet. Bul′ling. （Blasting.) Parting a piece of loosened rock from its bed by means of exploding gunpowder poured into the fissures. Bullion. 1. A word whose original meaning indicated a rounded stud or ornament, and came to mean a metallic clasp, boss, hook, button, or buckle. The meaning has diverged in two directions. It n<
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), N. (search)
That in the example is a supporting brace or bar D, which slides vertically. In this instance, as the feed is effected by the needle, the bar has a lateral movement coincident with that of the needle. Nee′dle-gun. （German, Zundnadelgewehr.) A fire-arm which is loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, and which is ignited by a needle or pin traversing the breech-block and struck by the hammer. There are many guns of this construction, such as the converted Enfield (see converting); but the one which has attained so great celebrity, though by no means the best of its class, is the Prussian needle-gun, which performed so effective a part in the Prusso-Austrian war of 1866. See fire-arm, cut C, Plate XVI. The French chassepot-gun is shown at B, same plate. The Prussian piece was invented by Mr. Dreyse, who is said to have spent over thirty years in trying to construct a perfect breech-loading fire-arm. It was introduced to some extent into the P
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
ulum.Chronoscope. Ball-screw.Cimeter. Bar-shot.Claymore. Battering-ram.Coehorn. Battery.Columbiad. Battery-forge.Combination fuse. Battery-gun.Congreve-rocket. Battery-wagon.Cross-bar shot. Battle-axe.Cross-bow. Bayonet.Cuirass. Bayonet-scabbard frog.Cuisse. Bilbo.Culverin. Bill.Curtal-axe. Bird bolt.Cutlass. Birding-piece.Dagger. Blank cartridge.Dahlgren-gun. Blow-pipe for blow-gun.Dart. Blunderbuss.Dirk. Boarding-pike.Double-barreled gun. Bolas.Double headed shot. Bomb.Enfield rifle. Bombard.Eprouvette. Bomb-chest.Falchion. Bomb for killing whales.Field-gun. Bomb-lance.Fire-arm. Bomb-shell.Fire-ball. Boomerang.Fire-lock. Bow.Fish-gig. Bowie-knife.Flint. Brake.Flint-lock. Breech-loader.Flying-artillery. Breech-sight.Foil. Broadsword.Fowling-piece. Buckshot.Friction-primer. Bridge-barrel.Friction-tube. Bullet.Fuse. Bullet-mold.Fuse-lock. Bullet-screw.Fusil. Bullet-shell.Gatling-gun. Burrel-shot.Gauntlet. Caisson.Gingal. Cane-gun.Gis arm. Canis
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Chapter 2: Readville camp. (search)
verance, Miss Abby W. May, Judge Russell, Rev. Mr. Grimes, Charles W. Slack, and J. H. Stevenson were of the party. Another event was the review by Governor Andrew and Secretary Chase in the afternoon of April 30, the President's Fast Day. The line was formed with eight hundred and fifty men; and the distinguished visitors were received with due honors. Dr. Howe, Robert Dale Owen, Mr. Garrison, and other gentlemen were also present. On April 30, the regiment drew nine hundred and fifty Enfield rifled muskets and a suitable number of noncommissioned officers' swords. Lieutenant Jewett, appointed ordnance officer, issued the arms on the following day. May 2, the regiment was drilled for the first time in the School of the Battalion. General Peirce, accompanied by Surgeon-General Dale and the Governor's Council, reviewed the Fifty-fourth on May 4. Brig.-Gen. Edward A. Wild, who was authorized to recruit a brigade of colored troops, visited the camp informally on the 11th. That p
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 5: (search)
eld, was despatched to Birmingham, and directed to act promptly in the purchase of arms, if he found any there suitable for our purpose. John B. Goodman, the chairman of the gun trade in Birmingham, had the control of about twenty-five thousand Enfield rifles, of excellent quality, which could be delivered in a very short time. The current price for these arms was sixty shillings sterling each; a party stood ready to give one hundred shillings each for the lot to go South. The preference of emergency, that we ought to haggle too much about the price: to save ten thousand dollars might be to lose every thing. Before Mr. Crowninshield's return, he had bought and contracted for Massachusetts, and forwarded part of them home, 19,380 Enfield rifles, and 10,000 sets of equipments, with which several of our regiments were provided, and rendered much service in the war. Among the gentlemen who were very active in procuring arms and equipments in the States, and indefatigable and unt
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 117 (search)
the rebels. But to this Colonel Langley objected, and proposed that they should be regarded as neutral property, and not touched by either party until one or the other should occupy the ground. To this Colonel Rice reluctantly consented — knowing that if he did not, it would be equivalent to saying that the rebels were not going to hold their position. The upshot of the matter was just as Colonel Langley expected; the rebels evacuated, and we got all the arms, some two hundred and fifty Enfield rifles. From the Colonel I gather the following in relation to the personnel of Hindman and Cheatham, with whom he had a long conversation; Cheatham's uniform consisted of an old slouched hat, a blue hickory shirt, butternut pants, and a pair of cavalry boots. The supports to his unmentionables were an old leather strap and a piece of web — the tout ensemble presenting the appearance of a Johnny run to seed. Cheatham was of the opinion that the war would be settled by treaty, as neithe
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ...