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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 9 1 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—the Third winter. (search)
g the apparatus, as the current of electricity was interrupted. Bold and ingenious minds had entered the path opened by Bushnell, which seemed closed since the unsuccessful attempts made by Fulton. Bushnell, the true inventor of torpedoes, who was Bushnell, the true inventor of torpedoes, who was the first to prove that powder could be ignited under water and there produce destructive effects, had connected this invention with that of submarine boats, and tried several times during the war of American independence to cause a torpedo to be fasted, the problem to be resolved was too complicated. Fulton, some thirty years later, had not succeeded any better than Bushnell. There is nothing astonishing about this, for submarine navigation is hardly better improved to-day than it was at thatd's staff, Captain Lee, had understood that to obtain an efficacious result it was necessary to simplify the attempts of Bushnell and Fulton, and disconnect the use of the offensive torpedo from the difficulties and the hazards of submarine navigatio
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Addenda by the Editor. (search)
Dean. Assumed command November 25th. Col. Jabez Banbury. Succeeded Col. Dean November 25th Staff.11 93d Illinois11924422593 5th Iowa2220g74106 10th Iowa2106361762 26th Missouri.2131331353 —————————————— Total Third brigade5441213312109315 —————————————— Total Second division8812526415--130523 —————————————— Total Army of the Tennessee202021101144191911686 —————————————— Grand total696838954318263245815 Officers killed or mortally wounded. Illinois. Major Douglas R. Bushnell13th Infantry. Captain Walter Blanchard13th Infantry. Lieutenant David M. Richards25th Infantry. Lieutenant Herbert Weyman27th Infantry. Lieutenant Hugh M. Love27th Infantry. Lieutenant Sidney M. Abbott36th Infantry. Lieutenant Jacob Y. Elliott42d Infantry. Lieutenant Alfred O. Johnson42d Infantry. Lieutenant George C. Smith42d Infantry. Captain Carl R. Harnisch44th Infa