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... calms , the very best time for our operations , a sail - vessel cannot move at all , and with head winds she is almost as badly off . From these two causes of delay a carefully kept record shows that we lose , by the Coquette , an ...
... calms , the very best time for our operations , a sail - vessel cannot move at all , and with head winds she is almost as badly off . From these two causes of delay a carefully kept record shows that we lose , by the Coquette , an ...
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... Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . 11 439 921 20 408 1046 2 492 938 606 719 14 882 686 3 686 795 24 751 856 20 1240 568 557 933 31 576 1136 24 717 1276 660 1039 73 2372 3632 78 3247 3576 5 2395 3705 TABLE 2. - FALLING HIGH BAROMETER ...
... Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . 11 439 921 20 408 1046 2 492 938 606 719 14 882 686 3 686 795 24 751 856 20 1240 568 557 933 31 576 1136 24 717 1276 660 1039 73 2372 3632 78 3247 3576 5 2395 3705 TABLE 2. - FALLING HIGH BAROMETER ...
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... Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . Southeast . South . Southwest . West . Northwest . Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . Months . Stations . Months . Stations . Table of 294 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR .
... Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . Southeast . South . Southwest . West . Northwest . Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . Months . Stations . Months . Stations . Table of 294 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR .
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... Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . F ཙྪཱ ཀྐཱ ཝཚོ ཌ ཆ་ྲ ॰ ཆོ ° ཎྜརྩེ 77 209 19 48 93 17 34 115 6 37 92 3 196 197 509 45 113 858 483 *** ** ** 58 13 40 18 11 15 86 90 55 381 782 138 -8 002 383 15 3 12 23 5 OOL FO 0 9 1 11 127 460 26 108 25 ...
... Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . F ཙྪཱ ཀྐཱ ཝཚོ ཌ ཆ་ྲ ॰ ཆོ ° ཎྜརྩེ 77 209 19 48 93 17 34 115 6 37 92 3 196 197 509 45 113 858 483 *** ** ** 58 13 40 18 11 15 86 90 55 381 782 138 -8 002 383 15 3 12 23 5 OOL FO 0 9 1 11 127 460 26 108 25 ...
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... Calms . Clearness . Northwest . Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . Months . Stations . Table of direction and prevalence of 296 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR .
... Calms . Clearness . Northwest . Calms . Cloudiness . Clearness . Months . Stations . Table of direction and prevalence of 296 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR .
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Página 151 - Our own detestation of those who have attempted the most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man is tempered by profound contempt for the impotent rage which it discloses. So far as regards the action of this Government on such criminals as may attempt its execution, I confine myself to informing you that I shall, unless in your wisdom you deem some other course more...
Página 42 - A thousand of our brave men killed and wounded paid for its possession ; but we held the gap. Two divisions of Longstreet's corps confronted the position. Determined to take it they successively came to the assault. A battery of six guns placed in the gorge poured death and slaughter into them. They charged...
Página 26 - ... killed and wounded, and among the killed Generals Tracy, Tilghman, and Green, and hundreds and perhaps thousands of stragglers, who can never be collected and reorganized. Arms and munitions of war for an army of sixty thousand...
Página 38 - It is important that all the available forces of your command be pushed forward into East Tennessee. All your scattered forces should be concentrated there. So long as we hold Tennessee, Kentucky is perfectly safe. Move down your infantry as rapidly as possible toward Chattanooga, to connect with Rosecrans. Bragg may merely hold the passes of the mountains to cover Atlanta, and move his main army through Northern Alabama, to reach the Tennessee river and turn Rosecrans's right, and cut off his supplies.
Página 20 - Slocum arrived on the field with the 3d and 12th corps, which took position, one on the left and the other on the right of the new line. The battle for the day, however, was over. General Meade arrived on the field during the night with the...
Página 88 - ... officers, or poor, and it may be, orphan boys of genius — is more plausible than real. That such appointments have been made, to the manifest advantage of the country, is certain. But we know not a single instance of such marked success, on the part of a cadet thus appointed, as to attract investigation, where the same youth would not have secured the appointment in open competition. But if he had failed, and the place had been filled by one better qualified, the country would have been no...
Página 42 - Two divisions of Longstreet's corps confronted the position. Determined to take it, they successively came to the assault. A battery of six guns, placed in the gorge, poured death and slaughter into them. They charged to within a few yards of the pieces, but our grape and canister, and the leaden hail of our musketry...
Página 40 - Grant, by his distinguished services, and his superior rank to all the other generals in the west, seemed entitled to this general command; but, unfortunately, he was at this time in New Orleans, unable to take the field.
Página 151 - I shall, unless in your wisdom you deem some other course more expedient, deliver to the several State authorities all commissioned officers of the United States that may hereafter be captured by our forces in any of the States embraced in the proclamation, that they may be dealt with in accordance with the laws of those States providing for the punishment of criminals engaged in exciting servile insurrection.
Página 18 - The fact that I decided to move from "Warrenton on to this line rather against the opinion of the President, Secretary of War, and yourself, and that you have left the whole movement in my hands, without giving me orders, makes me the more responsible.