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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 12: operations against Richmond. (search)
er — a region made forever memorable by the seven days battles there, in the summer of 1862. The expedition moved so unexpectedly and rapidly up the river, that the Confederates could make no effective dispositions for opposing it. Portions of Wilde's brigade of negro troops were landed at Wilson's wharf, on the north side of the river, and at Fort Powhatan, on the south side, thus securing and holding, for the protection of its navigation, important points at bends in the stream. On the af Beauregard ceased all attempts to dislodge Butler. Two or three days later, Fitzhugh Lee, with a considerable body of Confederate cavalry, May 24, 1864. attacked the post at Wilson's Wharf, then held by two regiments of negro troops, under General Wilde. After being three times repulsed, Lee withdrew. At about this time a forgery, in the form of a proclamation by the President, calculated to inspirit the Confederates, alarm and distract the loyal people, depress the public securities, an
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 5: California, New York, and Kansas. 1857-1859. (search)
notes, etc., in the hands of S. M. Bowman, Esq., who passed them over to me. On the 30th of January I published a notice of the dissolution of the partnership, and called on all who were still indebted to the firm of Lucas, Turner & Co. to pay up, or the notes would be sold at auction. I also advertised that all the real property was for sale. Business had somewhat changed since 1857. Parrott & Co.; Garrison, Fritz & Ralston; Wells, Fargo & Co.; Drexel, Sather & Church, and Tallant & Wilde, were the principal bankers. Property continued almost unsalable, and prices were less than a half of what they had been in 1853-954. William Blanding, Esq., had rented my house on Harrison Street; so I occupied a room in the bank, No. 11, and boarded at the Meiggs House, corner of Broadway and Montgomery, which we owned. Having reduced expenses to a minimum, I proceeded, with all possible dispatch, to collect outstanding debts, in some instances making sacrifices and compromises. I made
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
an elongated cylindrical armature, wound with insulated wire in the direction of its length, was made to revolve between the poles of a number of parallel horseshoe magnets. By this means much more powerful currents were obtained. In 1866, Mr. Wilde of Manchester, England, conceived the idea of passing the current developed by an apparatus of this kind through the insulated wire of an electro-magnet of larger size. He found that the force of the magnetism thus excited was far greater thane than a foot thick, the whole secured together by bolts. At the other end is the armature, a cylinder of 7 inches diameter, deeply grooved in the direction of its length, and wound with copper wire nearly 1/4 inch in diameter. More recently, Mr. Wilde has substituted insulated copper ribbon for the wire. The armature turns in a hollow iron cylinder lined with brass, and is driven at the rate of 1,700 revolutions per minute. This machine maintains in full incandescence carbon points nearl
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
of the object-glass f, which forms an image of the crystal upon a screen at g; an analyzing plate h composed of sixteen plates of mica being caused to turn upon its axis, the image of the selenite upon the disk is caused to exhibit alternately the primary and secondary colors at the same time, one being reflected in the direction i, and the other thrown upon the screen at g. Goddard's oxyhydrogen polariscope. Polar-is-tro-bom′e-ter. The title given to an instrument devised by Professor Wilde of Berne for investigating the relations of various liquids to polarized light. Po-lar′i-ty. The property of attraction or repulsion, or of taking certain directions. Po′lar-izer. The lower prism. The one beneath the stage of the microscope in polarizing apparatus. Pol′da-ry. （Fabric.) A kind of coarse canvas. Poldway. Pold′way. （Fabric.) Coarse bagging stuff for coal-sacks, etc. Pole. 1. The tongue of a vehicle. The pole was the universal a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
the cask. The previous rounding of the inside of the barrel to make a fair surface to work on is done by the howel. The howel may also make the chamfer, which is the bevel at the end of the stave forming the chine. Cooper's croze. In stave-crozing machines the kerf is usually cut by a saw; in barrel-crozing machines the staves, after being set up, are subjected to the action of the crozing-saw. In some cases two saws and a cutter croze, cut off, and chamfer the stave simultaneously. Wilde, August 12, 1862; Cutter, June 14, 1870. Stave-cutting machine. Stave-cut′ter. A machine for cutting staves from the bolt. In the machine (Fig. 5577), the stave-bolt is held upon the swingingbed B, and presented to the action of the curved knife C. A series of curved ribs a on the fixed bed carry alternating rollers g h, which prevent the side of the block from coming in direct contact with the ribs, and permit the chips and splinters to pass between them When the stave is c
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 155 (search)
reaches Wilson's wharf, a point about thirty-five miles below Richmond. Here a regiment of General Wilde's negro brigade have effected a landing, and are busily engaged in making preparations to hothem. The attack on Fort Powhatan. Headquarters of General Butler, May 25, 1864. General Wilde is in command at Wilson's wharf, on the north side of the James. He has a garrison, all negerposition of divine Providence, escape butchery at the hands of your gentlemen comrades? General Wilde replied, We will try that. And the fight commenced. At first it raged fiercely on the left broke and tried to run. The fight lasted till about five o'clock, when hostilities ceased. General Wilde directed the operations in person, and made preparations to renew the fight, but during the as told in the song, and Folded their tents like the Arabs, And silently stole away. General Wilde is an enthusiast on the subject of colored troops. He firmly believes that a white man, in
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, The colored regiments. (search)
lly reaping a harvest of slaves. These expeditions brought an element of danger into our lives, for our forage parties were fired into by the enemy more than once, but we always succeeded in bringing back our men with us. The black regiments did valuable service for the Union, leaving their dead on many a southern battle-field. Mr. Stearns was a noble man, courteous, with great executive ability, and grandly fitted for the work he was engaged in. At this time Major Stearns's friend, General Wilde, was recruiting a colored brigade in North Carolina, and General Ullman was organizing colored regiments in Louisiana. Major Stearns's labors were brought to a close in February, 1864, by the eccentric conduct of Secretary Stanton,--the reason for which has never been explained. He obtained leave of absence to return to Boston at Christmas time, and after a brief visit to his family went to Washington and called upon the Secretary of War, who declined to see him three days in succes
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Bibliographical Appendix: works of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. (search)
on; Richter (poem); A Sketch (poem); A Sketch (poem) [?]. No. 2. Record of the Months (part). No. 3. Klopstock and Meta; The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain; Menzel's View of Goethe; Record of the Months. No. 4. Leila; A Dialogue. Dial. Vol. II. No. 1. Goethe; Need of a Diver; Notices of Recent Publications. No. 2. Lives of the Great Composers; Festus. No. 3. Yucca Filamentosa; Bettine Brentano and her Friend Giinderode; Epilogue to the Tragedy of Essex; Notices of Monaldi and Wilde's Tasso (including part of her translation of Goethe's Tasso). Dial. Vol. III. No. 1. Entertainments of the Past Winter. Notices of Hawthorne. No. 2. Romaic and Rhine Ballads; Tennyson's Poems, in Record of the Months. No. 4. Canova; Record of the Months (part). Dial. Vol. IV. No. 1. The Great Lawsuit; Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women. No. 3. The Modern Drama. No. 4. Dialogue. New York Tribune, 1844-46. Too numerous to be here catalogued. They are usually designate
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 2: Parentage and Family.—the father. (search)
hill. These well known names show his high standing in the confidence of the community. Mr. Sumner's home life, which before his appointment as sheriff had been regulated with severe economy, was now more generously maintained. Twice a year, at the opening of the Supreme Judicial Court, he gave a dinner to the judges, the chaplain, and members of the bar and other gentlemen. He gathered, on these festive occasions, such guests as Chief Justices Parker and Shaw, Judges Prescott, Putnam, Wilde, Morton, Hubbard, Thacher, Simmons, Solicitor General Davis, Governor Lincoln, Josiah Quincy, John Pickering, Harrison Gray Otis, William Minot, Timothy Fuller, Samuel E. Sewall; and, among the clergy, Gardiner, Tuckerman, Greenwood, Pierpont, and Lyman Beecher. His son Charles, and his son's classmates, Hopkinson and Browne, were, once at least, among the youngest guests. He gave a dinner, in 1831, to surviving classmates; at which were present Pickering, Jackson, Thacher, Mason, and Dixw
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 13: England.—June, 1838, to March, 1839.—Age, 27-28. (search)
d to visit places of interest on the way. His route was from London to Guilford, where Lord Denman was holding the Home Circuit, Winchester, Salisbury, Exeter, and Bodmin in Cornwall, where the Western Circuit was then in session, and where, with Wilde and Follett, he was the guest of the bar; then to Plymouth in the carriage of Crowder, Queen's counsel, afterwards judge; to Combe Florey, where he was for two days the guest of Sydney Smith; to Wells, where he met the Western Circuit again, Brisought and embellished the society of their day. He was received as a guest, sometimes with the familiarity of a kinsman, into the houses of Denman, Vaughan, Parke, Alderson, Langdale, and Coltman, among judges; of Follett, Rolfe (Lord Cranworth), Wilde, Crowder, Lushington, and D'Oyly, among lawyers; of Hayward, Adolphus, Clark, Bingham, Wills, Theobald, Starkie, and Professor Bell, among law-writers and reporters; of Hallam, Parkes, Senior, Grote, Jeffrey, Murray, Carlyle, Rogers, Talfourd, Wh
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