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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Field telegrams. (search)
Drewry's Bluff, 4 A. M., 16th June, 1864. General B. Bragg, Richmond: Just arrived at this point with Pickett's division; have informed General Beauregard. Direct to me here. R. E. Lee. Drewry's Bluff, 16th June, 1864. General A. P. Hill, Riddel's Shops, via Savage Station: Send a brigade to vicinity of New Market station, intersection of Kingsland and New Market roads. R. E. Lee. Drewry's Bluff, 9.40 A. M., 16 June, 1864. General Beauregard, Petersburg: Please inform me of condommunicate with him. R. E. Lee. Official: C. S. Venable, A. D. C. Clay's House, 1.45 P. M., 17th June, 1864. General G. T. Beauregard, Petersburg, Virginia: Fifth corps (Warren's) crossed Chickahominy at Long bridge on 13th; was driven from Riddel's shop by General Hill, leaving many dead and prisoners on our hands. That night it marched to Westover. Some prisoners were taken from it on the 14th; have not heard of it since. All prisoners taken here are from Tenth corps. R. E. Lee, Gene
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
ifferent ocular images. Wheatstone has shown that our appreciation of raised objects depends mainly on this circumstance; and his stereoscope, or binocular glass, is an ingenious contrivance for making two plain pictures seem to coalesce into one rilievo, or raised object. Bi-nocu-lar Mi′cro-scope. （Optics.) The invention of the binocular microscope followed that of the stereoscope by Professor Wheatstone, which led to a general appreciation of the value of binocular vision. Professor Riddel, of New Orleans, and after him Wenham, of London, made attempts to adapt the principle to microscopes. Professor Nachet, of Paris, devised a construction in which the pencil of rays issuing from the objective is divided by an equilateral triangular prism, and, issuing from the right and left sides respectively, the divided pencils are received by similar prisms, which give them a direction parallel to their original course; the interval of separation being determined by the distance be
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National crisis. (search)
erty, at 10 per cent. Conversed socially with him about half an hour, finding that he knew many acquaintances of witness' in Liberty, Riddell represented himself to be of the house of Bullitt & Smith, Louisville, Ky. Left his card, which indicated that he was an attorney at law in Louisville. Witness afterwards took the notes to Mr. Mead, at the Bank of the Commonwealth, to Mr. Pairo and to Mr. Maury, who pronounced them counterfeit.--Subsequently went to the Exchange Hotel, but not finding Riddel, sent for an officer. E. H. Chalkley, Police Officer, testified to the circumstances of the arrest of the prisoners, while they were setting their bills at the Exchange Hotel. They seemed surprised. Took them to their room, where witness searched Riddell, and Mr. Seal searched Chilton. Found on Riddell $95 in good money, but no counterfeit notes. Prisoner said he got the money, which he exchanged, of Chilton, and that he did not know he had it till he got to Richmond.--Found a pisto