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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Incidents of the first Bull Run. (search)
try. When I told him we had been 24 hours without food for men or horses, he said he would order supplies to follow, remarking, You will have plenty of time to cook and eat, to the music of a battle in which we shall probably take little or no part. Away we went, retracing our steps to the Junction, and by a westerly detour striking into the Sudley road, at a point half-way between the Junction and the scene of the battle. After an hour or so we ascended the hill to the Lewis house, or Portici. Here a courier at full speed met us with news that the whole Federal army seemed to be marching north-westerly on the other side of Bull Run. Halting my men, I rode to the top of the hill, and had a full view of a long column of glittering bayonets moving up on the north side of the creek. Glancing down the valley, I saw Bee's brigade advancing, and galloped to meet him and report what I had seen. He divined the plans of Confederate fortifications about Manassas Junction. This vie
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 27 (search)
e front, as became its previous behavior, and remained with it for the rest of the day. As soon as we had thus rallied and disposed our forces, I urged General Johnston to leave the immediate conduct of the field to me, while he, repairing to Portici (the Lewis house), should urge reinforcements forward. At first he was unwilling, but, reminded that one of us must do so, and that properly it was his place, he reluctantly, but fortunately, complied; fortunately, because from that position, by his energy and sagacity, his keen perception and anticipations of my needs, he so directed the reserves as to insure the success of the day. As General Johnston departed for Portici, Colonel Bartow reported to me with the remains of the 7th Georgia Volunteers, Gartrell's, which I ordered him to post on the left of Jackson's lines, in the edge of the belt of pines bordering the southeastern rim of the plateau, on which the battle was now to rage so long and so fiercely. Colonel William
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
a cancer for his queen Atosa. Herophilus and Erisistratus, of Alexandria, made that school famous in the third century, B. C., and are reputed to have dissected the human body. The tourniquet, catheter, lithontriptor, and ecraseur were probably used by them. Galen practiced in Rome in the second century, A. D. Fig. 6085 shows a number of surgical instruments discovered by the Russian physician, Dr. Savenko, in 1819, in the Via Consularis, Pompeii. The instruments are in the Museum of Portici. They were discovered in a house supposed to have belonged to a surgeon. They are,— a b, two probes (specillum) respectively six and four and a half inches long. c, a cautery of iron, four inches long. d e, two lancets (sralpellum) of copper, four and a half and three inches long. f, a small copper amputating-knife, with a wavy edge. The illustration (taken from Revue Medicale, for 1821, Vol. III. page 427) shows it out of proportion; it is two and a half inches long, one in
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
tenaculum-forceps with a sliding ring was used in old Rome. One was disinterred at Pompeii in 1819 by Dr. Cavenko of St. Petersburg, in the Via Consularis. It is pictured in Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, page 274, and is in the Museum of Portici. e (Fig. 6293) is an instrument invented by Prince, which acts the part of a tenaculum and forceps combined. The upper bow is that of the tenaculum, and beneath it are the bow jaws of the forceps. The blades of the jaws are made wide enoughe Roman volselloe: used in eradicating hair. A small pair made of ivory has been found in a British barrow. The cut shows Peruvian tweezers, of copper. Tweezers of copper have also been disinterred at Pompeii, and are now in the museum at Portici. And there bought me a pair of tweezers, cost me 14 s. — Pepys, 1662. Peruvian tweezers of copper. 2. A surgeon's case of instruments. See Tweeze. Twelfth. （Music.) A stop of an organ tuned one twelfth above open diapason. S
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
t it clasps the parts, and is thereby aided in keeping its position. Room is provided for the urethra in the notch at the base of the instrument. See also pessary. Uv′row. （Nautical.) See Uphroe. U′vu-la–for′ceps. Celsius, first century A. D., describes the use of the uvula-forceps; and an instrument supposed to be for that purpose was found by Dr. Savenko in 1819 in a house in Pompeii. It is pictured in Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, page 274, and is in the Museum at Portici, together with lancets, spatulas, a cautery, catheters, needles, a tenaculum, probes, etc., found at the same time and place. See surgical instruments. U-vu′la-tome. A cutting instrument for operating on the uvula. a, tongue-holding forceps. d, Tiemann's uvulatome. b, vulsellum. e, Green's double hook. c, uvula-scissors with claws. Vac′ci-nator. （Surgical.) An instrument for introducing vaccine virus beneath the skin. The puncturing-tube, with virus in i
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
runk, or of boards nailed together to form a circular disk. Such are still used in Greece. The usual carriages of the ancients had two wheels, but four-wheeled carriages are shown in the Theban paintings and elsewhere, and are carefully described by Herodotus. (See cart, page 485.) The ferate orbes of Virgil are wheels shod with iron. Persius, Martial, and others call the tire canthus. Pliny ascribes the invention of four-wheeled wagons to the Phrygians. (See Fig. 1253, page 528.) At Portici are the remains of a Roman chariot-wheel; a band of iron forged out of a single piece, about 48 inches in diameter, nearly 2″ broad and 1″ thick. A portion of the nave has been preserved, which is bound with iron, and this again by a bronze plate secured by bronze nails. Jones's iron wheel. The common iron wheel of England has cast-iron hub (nave) and rim, and wrought-iron spokes. The rim has holes flaring to the outside, so as to hold the ends of the spokes, which have conical hea
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 7: (search)
hich he had promptly thrown forward to cover the retreat of Bee and Evans. Seeing the superior numbers of the enemy advancing to another conflict, Beauregard persuaded Johnston, who yielded with great reluctance, to ride back about a mile to Portici, the Lewis house, on the line of communication with the right, and hasten forward, as they came up, the reinforcements that had been ordered to the battle, while he looked after the immediate combat, which was provided for by placing Smith's Forers of their chiefs. The medical director of Jackson's brigade, Dr. Hunter McGuire, says in a recent memorial: While dressing his (Jackson's) wounded hand at the First Manassas, at the field hospital of the brigade near the Lewis house (Portici), I saw President Davis ride up from Manassas. He had been told by stragglers that our army had been defeated. He stopped his horse in the middle of the little stream, stood up in his stirrups, the palest, sternest face I ever saw, and cried t