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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The defense of Vicksburg. (search)
1862. The first troops to go to Vicksburg were from Camp Moore, a rendezvous of the forces which had recently evacuated New Orleans. They were Allen's 4th Louisiana and Thomas's 28th Louisiana. These regiments were soon followed by Marks's 27th Louisiana, De Clouet's 26th Louisiana, Richardson's 17th Louisiana, Morrison's 30th Louisiana, all infantry; and Beltzhoover's Louisiana regiment of artillery, and Ogden's Louisiana battalion of artillery. After these came Mellon's regiment and Balfour's battalion of Mississippi troops. The staff-officers were Major Devereux, Assistant Adjutant-General; Major Girault, Inspector-General; Lieutenant-Colonel Jay, Chief of Artillery; Captain McDonald, Chief of Ordnance, and Lieutenants Harrod and Frost, Aides-de-camp. These troops and officers constituted the garrison of Vicksburg from the beginning to the end of operations. The troops had but recently had a fearful baptism of fire in the fierce bombardment by Admiral Farragut of Forts Jac
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 23: siege and capture of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. (search)
dom! By three o'clock the possession of the post was absolute, and Porter's powerful fleet and the flotilla of transports were lying quietly at the levee. That evening, in commemoration of the National birthday, the soldiers regaled the citizens of Vicksburg with fire-works more harmless than those which, for more than forty nights, had coursed the heavens above them like malignant meteors, heralding war, pestilence, and famine. McPherson made his Headquarters at the fine mansion of Dr. Balfour, on the corner of Crawford and Cherry Streets, whence he issued a stirring congratulatory address to his soldiers, and Grant returned to his modest tent in the distant cane-brake See page 616. Operations in Mississippi. for the night, the greatest conqueror of the war thus far. After they were duly paroled, and were supplied with three days rations, the vanquished soldiers were escorted July 11, 1863. across the Big Black River, and sent on their way rejoicing to Johnston at Jacks
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
by Edward Cartwright in 1792. In 1805, Captain Huddard invented a series of machines, in which some of the features of the latter were introduced, by which hemp was successively combed, straightened, spun into yarns, tarred, twisted into strands, and finally laid up into rope. These were introduced into the dockyard at Chatham, England, and effected a great improvement in the manufacture of cables and cordage. See also English patents, — Sylvester, 1783; Seymour, 1784; Fothergill, 1793; Balfour, 1793, 1798; Chapman, 1797, 1799, 1807. In the year 1820, machinery was introduced into the United States from England, for working the spun yarn into strands and ropes. Mr. Treadwell introduced his rope-making machinery in 1834. In the ordinary process of manufacture, the hemp, having been heckled and formed into skeins, is spun into yarn by a number of men, each of whom wraps a bundle of hemp around his body, and attaches one end to one of a series of hooks rotated by band connec
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XV: journeys (search)
Club . . . . Coleridge does not recall his grandfather but [remembers] well his great aunt Mrs. Lloyd a most superior woman at 90, reading Horace, etc. His aunt Mrs. H. A. Coleridge quoted her uncle Southey a great deal . . . . He says we must go to Torquay where his sister Christobel (!) lives. To continue the extracts from the foreign journals and letters:— London, July 27, 1897. Yesterday I went to Parliament and heard a rousing debate on Africa by Chamberlain, Harcourt, Balfour, Hicks-Beach, Labouchere and the leaders generally; they hit quite as hard as our congressmen. To-day I am going to meet Swinburne. Our reception at the Channings [Francis Channing, M. P., now Lord Channing of Wellingborough] was a great success, two-thirds of the invited coming. The crowd in London was even worse than the day before and some people spent nearly two hours in their cabs, much of the time stopping perfectly still. Mrs. James Bryce gave up the attempt and went home. A
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
onsisting of his own regiment, two companies of Miller's Mississippi cavalry, and six guns of the Watson artillery, commanded by Colonel Beltzhoover. J. C. Tappan, a lawyer of high standing at Helena, Ark., had been chosen colonel of the Thirteenth Arkansas at its organization in June, 1861, with a full quota of 1,000 men. A. D. Grayson was elected lieutenant-colonel, and J. A. McNeely, major. The captains were: Robert B. Lambert, Company A; B. C. Crump, Company B; Benj. Harris, Company C; Balfour, Company D; J. M. Pollard, Company E; Dunn, Company F; Shelton, Company G; Johnson, Company H; George Hunt, Company K. On the morning of November 7th, at 7 o'clock, Colonel Tappan received information that the enemy was landing on the Missouri side of the river. Ordering the two cavalry companies forward to watch the enemy, he formed his command for battle. Two of Beltzhoover's guns were stationed in an old field back of the camp, commanding a road, with Pollard's company to sustain th
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
Major Dowdell, Twenty-first; Col. J. L. Daly and Captain Lynch, Eighteenth, and Captain Atkins, Rapley's battalion. Colonel Cravens (whose horse was shot under him) and Lieutenant-Colonel Matheny, Twenty-first; Colonel Dockery, Nineteenth; Lieutenant-Colonels Dismukes and Fletcher, Majors Williams and Wilson, and Captain Ashford, commanding Rapley's sharpshooters, were particularly distinguished. General Cabell also commended the bravery of his staff, Maj. John King, adjutant-general; Captain Balfour, inspector-general; Lieut. Marshall Hairston, aide-de-camp; his volunteer aides, Lieutenant Shepperd and Mr. Templeton, Captain Burnet, chief of artillery, and Lieutenant Hogg, commanding Appeal battery. The brigade loss was 98 killed, 223 wounded, 214 missing. Gen. Mansfield Lovell mentioned first among the regiments particularly distinguished the Ninth Arkansas, Colonel Dunlop, which, with the Twenty-second Mississippi, was the main factor in carrying a fortified hill on the 3d.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Medical history of the Confederate States Army and Navy (search)
not able to give you definitely the information you desire. To your first inquiry: Names of the medical officers in charge of the Confederate sick and wounded during the siege of Vicksburg, name also of Medical Director?— I would say that Dr. Winn, of Holmesville, Avoyelles parish, was my regimental surgeon. Dr. Pierce was his assistant. Dr. Raoul Percy was also on duty; as was Dr. Walker in charge of the First Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Fuller's command). As well as I recollect; Dr. Balfour was Medical Director, and Dr. Burchel, if I mistake not, was in charge of the hospital for the sick and wounded. Of course there were many other members of the medical profession who participated in the siege, but I do not recollect their names. 2. Number of Confederates killed and wounded during the siege of Vicksburg? Ans. I do not know the exact number, but I can approximate. I understood at headquarters at the commencement of the siege, that we had seventeen thousand men of al
The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
etable diet tends to produce diseases of a scorbutic character. The Commissioners only speak with the universal voice when they recommend that the soldiers shall have the means of roasting, stewing, baking, and frying, as well as of boiling. Dr. Balfour, who has the medical charge of the boys in the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea, has already put the plan to the test. Formerly the boys, like the soldiers, were fed perpetually on boiled meat; but of late years they have been treated like the rest of the community, and the result has been that the mortality has fallen from 927 per thousand to 4.9 per thousand. The greater part of this improvement is attributed by Dr. Balfour to the greater variety in the food and the mode of dressing it. The system effected a saving of £300 a year, the boys eating the whole of their victuals with a relish. I was able to get them into good condition by distributing the same amount of meat over seven days that they had previously had in four."
The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Death of a nephew of the President. (search)
Death of a nephew of the President. --A correspondent of the Mobile Register, writing some of the incidents of the battle of Corinth, gives the following: At Davis's bridge, on Sunday, the accomplished and gallant Balfour, of Gen. Van Dorn's staff, was fatally wounded. He was observed to suddenly turn deathly pale and dismount cautiously from his horse. He was asked if he was injured, and replied in the negative. He then walked to the shady side of a house, fell in a reclining poth a full sense of his injury he coolly resigned himself to his fate, endeavoring to attract as little attention and create as little alarm as possible. He died a few hours after receiving his wound, with unsurpassed coolness and resignation Major Balfour was a member of one of the most wealthy and influential families of this State, was the nephew of President Davis, and the pride and hope of his family. He was a gentleman of excellent education, high polish, and was an encyclopedia of gener
The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Women in workhouses. (search)
ened furiously on the city, continuing, with an intermission of about one hour, until about 12 o'clock at night. After night, the heavy mortars were ranged to throw the shell in the vicinity of the Catholic Church, where we were told they had been directed during the afternoon. The effect of these shell as they exploded, which usually took place just as they reached the ground, was terrific. We entered the city, fortune would have it, on Crawford and as we passed the residence of Dr. Balfour, Methodist, Baptist, and Catholic Churches, shells exploded in our immediate vicinity, rendering our position so uncomfortable that we suggested to a friend a precipitate retreat, in order to get out of the range of the mortars. The suggestion was promptly acceded to by our friend; not, however, until we had soiled our garments thoroughly by falling to the earth of the explosion of each successive, she." The next morning we entered the city — everything being quiet except the bustle