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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 48 (search)
ties regardless of the danger to which he was exposed. Major Brodtbeck and Sergeant-Major Morring aided much in rallying the men. When we began to march to support Colonel Lauman, companies A and G were out skirmishing. I despatched Adjutant Duncan to bring them up, which was splendidly done, and he performed all other duties required promptly and effectively. Surgeon Parker was on duty at the hospital; Assistant-Surgeon Finley performed faithful service in attending to the wounded; Quartermaster Dorr was performing his duty in forwarding supplies — his energy and efficiency cannot be too highly praised; the color-bearer, Sergeant Grannis, showed much coolness amid the sharp fire of the enemy; and, without particularizing, every commissioned officer of the regiment performed his duties with bravery and without flinching. The same may be said of the non-commissioned officers and privates, with but few exceptions. The following is a list of the killed and wounded: Lieut.-Col. J
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 118 (search)
which missed our men took effect in their ranks beyond us. To have held out longer would have been to suffer complete annihilation. The regiment was therefore compelled to surrender as prisoners of war. Lieut.-Colonel Coulter was much reduced by chronic diarrhea, and Major Brodtbeck was suffering from rheumatism. Being myself the only field-officer on duty, at my request Capt. Edgington acted as a field-officer, the duties of which he performed in an able and efficient manner. Quartermaster Dorr, though his position did not require him to go into action, Volunteered to do so, and throughout the day behaved in a brave and gallant manner, daringly if not recklessly exposing his person to the enemy. He made himself very useful in carrying messages and in spying out the positions and movements of the enemy, and firing on them as occasion offered. Energetic and efficient in his own department, he would fill a higher one with credit to himself and honor to the service. Adjutant
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
the homoeopathic system, and has since used none other. For the last few years he has been a most successful practitioner in Boston, where he has resided. Dr. Milton Fuller, who has practised acceptably in Medford and the neighboring towns for the last twelve years, on the homoeopathic system, has just removed to Boston. Of the present physicians of the town, now in full practice, and justly esteemed by all who know them, the usual rules of courtesy forbid us to speak. Drs. Bemis and Dorr practise on the allopathic system. In reviewing the last century and a quarter, we find that the terms of service with four physicians have filled up this long period! Medford certainly has not been given to change; and was ever town more favored in its physicians? They were men of medical science, of practical skill, of quick sensibility, and irreproachable morals. How steady and powerful the beneficent action of such Christian professors amid the most trying scenes of human life! Wha
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 5: Forts and Artillery. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Engineer corps of the Federal army (search)
mas had been sent to Nashville. The engineers fortified Franklin, but Schofield, with two corps of Thomas' army, was not strong enough to hold it. At Nashville the skill of the engineers, under Captain (afterward General) Morton and Captain Merrill, had enabled General Thomas to take his stand and hold on until he was ready to move against Hood. A tripod for surveying the battlefield: map-making from pulpit rock, Lookout Mountain The tripod signal in the background was erected by Captains Dorr and Donn, of the United States Coast Survey, in the triangular survey of the triple battlefield for making the official maps. In the West, the operations of the Federal engineers shed luster on their corps. Seventeen field and subaltern officers served constantly in the Western Federal armies; and though they had no regular engineer troops under them, the volunteers who received training from these officers proved their worth. The army under Sherman had with it nine able engineers und
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
erate one, but the anxiety and distress of the public and of the authorities at Washington is so great that it seems to demand running great risks for the chances of success. Headquarters army of the Potomac, February 29, 1864. Yesterday Mr. Dorr, from Christ Church, preached for us, and afterwards dined and spent the evening with me. During the evening one of the escaped prisoners from Libby prison, who had made his way from Richmond right through the main body of Lee's army and into our lines, came to see me, and Mr. Dorr seemed very much interested in the narrative of his adventures. He returned home this morning, delighted with his visit to the army and all he had seen. He has a son who is a captain in Chapman Biddle's regiment, the One Hundred and Twenty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers. My cavalry expedition for Richmond got off last night, and at 2 A. M., the last I heard from them, they were getting on famously, not having met any one or being, as far as they could te
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
Dehon, Arthur, I, 316, 337, 339, 345, 365; II, 315. de Joinville, Prince, I, 117, 219, 235. Derby, Earl of, II, 191. De Russy, Col., I, 179. De Trobriand, P. R., II, 73, 79, 84, 339. Devins, Thomas C., II, 32, 49, 53. Dewey, Capt., II, 109. Dickinson, James P., I, 191. Diedrich, Gen., I, 286, 288, 289. Dilger, Gen., II, 49, 51. Dix, John A., I, 271, 302; II, 203, 279. Dobbins, S. D., I, 66, 68. Doles, Geo., II, 48, 50, 51. Doolittle, Mr., I, 379. Dorr, Mr., II, 168. Doubleday, Abner, I, 196, 349; II, 33, 39, 46, 47, 52, 54, 63, 89, 100, 169, 170, 172, 173, 176, 240, 320, 324, 390, 396-405, 407, 413, 417-422. Douglas, Stephen A., II, 288. Dow, E. B., II, 85. Doyle, Major-Gen., II, 233. Doyle, Sir, Hastings, II, 285. Drainesville, engagement of, Dec. 20, 1861, I, 236-240; II, 313. Drayton, Percival, I, 9, 228. Drayton, Thomas F., I, 228. Draytons, I, 9. Duane, Col., II, 254. Duff, Mr., II, 254. Duncan, Col.,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
se a slower motion in the feeding than in the return motion of the pusher. Stave sawing and jointing machine. Stave-riv′ing ma-chine′. One for splitting balks of timber into slabs suitable for making staves. The slab of rived timber undergoes treatment for bending, sawing to a length, hollowing, backing, dressing, chamfering, crozing; some of these operations, however, are performed after the staves are set up. The riving of staves is usually by frow and mallet (see Fig 2108). Dorr's riving-tool has a set of knives in a frame, so as to check the end of the balk for a number of staves (or shingles) at once. The knives are not quite parallel, but have divergence answering to the radial marks in the timber; for instance, the medullary rays in oak and some other woods. Stave-saw′ing ma-chine′. （Coopering.) a. One for sawing staves from the log, bolt, or balk. b. One for sawing the edges of staves, otherwise known as jointing. See stave-jointing machine. The
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1, Chapter 9: (search)
ant position upon the Sequestration Committee, where his legal ability and business qualification made him eminently useful to the Government. March 12.—The regiment was ordered to the Metaire Racecourse, the most unhealthy spot in all the South. The colonel was in command of the post; and it soon gained a most excellent reputation for discipline and drill, remaining there ten weeks without a guard to keep the men inside the lines. May 19.—It was ordered to Camp Parapet, to relieve General Dorr, and the colonel to take command of the United-States forces at that place, and its defences. The colonel recruited a company of colored men to be used in the swamps, which became the nucleus of the Second Regiment of Engineers, and was largely officered by members of the Forty-seventh. The lines of defence were thirty miles long. The immediate defences consisted of a parapet two and a half miles long, and a canal and military road to be guarded and scouted a distance of twelve to sev
Isaac O. Best, History of the 121st New York State Infantry, Chapter 10: the tenth of May (search)
less than an hour we began to get some idea of the awful loss we had sustained. I looked around for Davenport, made inquiries, but could get no tidings of him. I went to the brigade hospital, and saw many of our regiment, shot in all shapes, but Dorr was not with them. Just as I was starting back, a Company I man said, One of your company is lying in the woods just where we started to charge. I went out to the skirmish line again. There was some firing on the line by the Rebels. There were some wounded men out in the field, as we could tell by their cries and groans, and I went out a little way, passing several dead men, and helped bring in a badly wounded man. Realizing how hopeless it was to find Dorr, I came back, tired out and heartsick. I sat down in the woods, and as I thought of the desolation and misery about me, my feelings overcame me and I cried like a little child. After a time I felt better and went back to camp. I found the men, and talked over the charge for a
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 11: (search)
. . Only think for a moment what a resemblance there is between that Rhode Island question, about which you did me the honor to read the long story I wrote to Mr. Lyell, and your Irish question; what counterparts your Daniel O'Connell and our Governor Dorr are, both in the motives that govern them and in the ends they pursue. Why, half the platform just reflects the other, though here I must needs be permitted to say, that I think we have a little the advantage of you,—a thing that comes rarely enough, to be sure,—but I really think we have a little the advantage of you. For the Rhode-Islanders have not only put Governor Dorr in prison, but they keep him there . . . . . And there, I think, he will have to remain, till he is willing to come out and take the oath of allegiance to the government he has endeavored to overturn. . . . . But to leave politics,—though these questions are much deeper than mere party politics, which are always odious,—to leave politics and come to another
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