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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
ood et al.Apr. 13, 1858. 19,979BosworthApr. 20, 1858. 20,481ClarkJune 8, 1858. 20,753West et al.June 29, 1858. 20,763MillerJune 29, 1858. 20,990CarpenterJuly 27, 1858. 21,049HookJuly 27, 1858. 21,256Fitz et al.Aug. 24, 1858. 21,322ClarkAug. 31, 1858. 21,466ClintonSept. 7, 1858. 21,672HarrisOct. 5, 1858. 21,713WhiteOct. 5, 1858. 21,722HendrickOct. 5, 1858. 22,148PerryNov. 23, 1858. 22,719Fosket et al.Jan. 25, 1859. 24,098CarhartMay 24, 1859. 24,395McCurdyJune 14, 1859. 26,201PearsonNov. 22, 1859. 32,415CooperMay 28, 1861. 32,456StoakesMay 28, 1861. 32,782NortonJuly 9, 1861. 32,785RaymondJuly 30, 1861. 33,085HodgkinsAug. 20, 1861. 34,932WilliamsApr. 8, 1862. 38,450PalmerMay 5, 1863. 45,236FolsomNov. 29, 1864. 46,064BartlettJan. 31, 1865. (Reissue.)2,210BartlettMar. 27, 1866. 54,816GoodspeedMay 15, 1866. 56,990PiperAug. 7, 1866. 60,669BartramJan. 1, 1867. 61,176DriggsJan. 15, 1867. (Reissue.)2,745HodgkinsAug. 20, 1867. (Reissue.)2,746HodgkinsA
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
ngth of this appears remarkable, the tendency of late having been to reduce this as far as possible in proportion to the aperture of the lens. A telescope is now in course of construction in Dublin for the Austro-Hungarian government. Its object-glass will have an aperture of 27 inches, and its total length will be about 32 feet. The ratio of focal lengths, mode of construction, powers, proportions, adjustments, and mounting are fully explained in many treatises on the subject. See Pearson, Loomis, Heather, Simms, etc., etc. See under the following heads:— Astronomical telescope.Newtonian telescope. Binocular telescope.Object-glass. Cassegrainian telescope.Opera-glass. Comet-seeker.Perspective-glass. Equatorial telescope.Reflecting-telescope. Eye-glass.Refracting-telescope. Field-glass.Submarine telescope. Finder.Teinoscope. Galilean telescope.Telemeter. Gregorian telescope.Terrestrial telescope. Herschelian telescope.Transit-instrument. One of the most im
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 14: the minister's wooing, 1857-1859. (search)
e been reading over the Autobiography and correspondence. It is glorious, beautiful; but more of this anon. Your affectionate sister, Hattie. Andover, August 24, 1857. Dear children,--Since anniversary papa and I have been living at home; Grandpa and Grandma Beecher are here also, and we have had much comfort in their society .... To-night the last sad duty is before us. The body is to be removed from the receiving tomb in the Old South Churchyard, and laid in the graveyard near by. Pearson has been at work for a week on a lot that is to be thenceforth ours. Our just inheritance consecrated by his grave. How little he thought, wandering there as he often has with us, that his mortal form would so soon be resting there. Yet that was written for him. It was as certain then as now, and the hour and place of our death is equally certain, though we know it not. It seems selfish that I should yearn to lie down by his side, but I never knew how much I loved him till now. Th
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A charge with Prince Rupert. (search)
the L House of Rimmon, as he called Parliament, to hang him, would have swung the Bible triumphantly to his neck by a ribbon, to show the unscriptural character of their doings. Charles himself, in one of his early addresses to his army, denounced the opposing party as Brownists, Anabaptists, and Atheists, and in his address to the city of London pleaded in favor of his own godly, learned, and painfull preachers. Every royal regiment had its chaplain, including in the service such men as Pearson and Jeremy Taylor, and they had prayers before battle, as regularly and seriously as their opponents. After solemn prayers at the head of every division, I led my part away, wrote the virtuous Sir Bevill Grenvill to his wife, after the battle of Bradock. Rupert, in like manner, had prayers before every division at Marston Moor. To be sure, we cannot always vouch for the quality of these prayers, when the chaplain happened to be out of the way and the colonel was his substitute. O Lord,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1: prelminary narrative, Preliminary narrative. (search)
ver to have been fought, for it had no purpose, no plan of action, no place in any scheme of operations. It is a question to this day which was the attacking party. （Walker's 2d Army Corps, p. 51.) (May 31–June 1) was the most important in which the Massachusetts troops had yet taken part. General Sedgwick's division, to which the 19th and 20th Mass. belonged, drove the famous Hampton Legion before it; and the 20th, which had now regained from captivity Colonel Lee, Major Revere and Adjutant Pearson, took an especially prominent part. The 10th and 7th also charged the enemy, the 10th forming four successive times under fire as regularly as if on the parade ground. General Hooker said in his report: The 10th, commanded by Col. Henry S. Briggs of Pittsfield, son of the ex-governor, displayed the greatest bravery and materially checked the progress of the enemy. The loss of both officers and soldiers was heavy in this battle. There fell Lieut. J. D. Bullock of Fall River, of the 7
Cambridge sketches (ed. Estelle M. H. Merrill), Town and Gown. (search)
Yet although Paige's History of Cambridge and Quincy's History of the college contain no accounts of students with broken heads in personal encounter with townspeople with battered faces, there are evidences therein of more peaceful encounters. Young men of many generations have treasured warm recollections of the graceful hospitality of Cambridge hosts. The young student may be at the time a little critical. John Quincy Adams writes in his diary while a student,--I went to take tea at Mr. Pearson's. I got seated between Miss E. and Miss H. but could not enjoy the pleasures of conversation because the music was introduced. Music is a great enemy to sociability and however agreeable it may be, sometimes there are occasions when I should wish it might be dispensed with. Doubtless, the Cambridge girl of to-day will recognize the conceit of the student of the present time in another passage from the same diary: The young ladies at Mr. Wigglesworth's dined at Judge Dana's. I went down
D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
of the committee of safety, were taken prisoners by the tories and carried to Cheraw, S. C. Paul Barringer married Elizabeth, daughter of Jean Armstrong and Matthew Brandon, who was with Joseph Graham and Colonel Locke in the repulse of the British near Charlotte, and also served with Col. John Brandon at Ramseur's mill. Gen. Rufus Barringer, son of the above, was born in 1821, and was graduated at North Carolina university in 1842. He studied law with his brother Moreau, then with Chief-Justice Pearson, settling in Concord. A Whig in politics, in 1848 he served in the lower house of the State legislature, and here was in advance of his time in advocating a progressive system of internal improvements. The following session he was elected to the State senate. He then devoted himself to his practice until he was made in 1860 a Whig elector in behalf of Bell and Everett. He was tenacious of his principles, and not to be swerved from duty by any amount of ridicule or opposition; was
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 1: (search)
ackson, commanding a force of 1, 150 strong, defeated 900 Indians at Emuckfa, killing 189 of the savages. January 27th, the Creeks attacked General Floyd at Camp Defiance, losing 37 of their warriors and inflicting a loss of 20 killed and 125 wounded. March 27th, General Jackson fought the battle of Horse Shoe Bend; his force was 2,400 and his loss 26 killed and 111 wounded. These victories and minor successes in other parts of the State by Major Blue, commanding regular troops, and Colonel Pearson, of the North Carolina militia, effectually ended the Indian disturbances in Alabama, the savages gladly entering into a treaty of peace. General Jackson was placed in command of the Southern army and proceeded to Mobile to protect the Gulf coast, which was now menaced by the British fleet. He strengthened Fort Bowyer, situated on a tongue of land about thirty miles from Mobile, defending it with 20 guns and 160 men under Major Lawrence. This fort was on the present site of Fort Morg
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Battle of Secessionville. (search)
unders of Boyce's battery, stationed at the crossing of the Fort Johnson road, and arriving at the scene of action, found the enemey making their second advance upon the post at Secessionville. A thicket of felled trees ran parallel with their line of advance and about four hundred yards west of it, on the edge of which next to the enemy, Colonel Stevens had deployed about one hundred men, who had been on picket duty near that point. These men were from the companies of Captains Tompkins, Pearson, Lieutenant Hammoter, commanding, and Gooding, Lieutenant Beckham, commanding, of the 24th Regiment, S. C. The Battery Island road was so obstructed, as to be impassible by troops or vehicles, ran between this felled thicket and a dense wood stretching towards Grimball's on the Stono Simonton's battalion coming up was placed behind the felled thicket in line of battle, its right resting near the Battery Island road, and the detachment of the First regiment was placed in reserve in the Batte
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Fortification and siege of Port Hudson—Compiled by the Association of defenders of Port Hudson; M. J. Smith, President; James Freret, Secretary. (search)
ield all of the wounded he had ambulances for, Colonel Miles fell back in good order, meeting on his return General Beall, who had gone out to his support in case he should be hard pressed. Without further exchange of shots our troops all retired within their intrenchments. On that day Colonel Miles reported a loss of eighty-nine in killed, wounded, and missing. Captain J. B. Turner and Lieutenant Crawford, of St. Tammany, and Lieutenant J. B. Wilson, of New Orleans, were killed. Lieutenant Pearson and four men of Abbay's battery were killed. The gallantry of Major Coleman received deserved praise, as did also the skill and tried courage of Colonel Miles, and the fight was looked upon with extreme satisfaction by all the troops in garrison. General Grover's approach. On the next day Colonel Wingfield's cavalry commenced skirmishing with the advance of Banks's army, which had been rapidly crossing the river, and were moving down upon us from Bayou Sara, only thirteen miles
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