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The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 11, In Three Parts. Part 3, Correspondence, etc.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 693.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 11, In Three Parts. Part 2, Reports, etc.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 995.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 10, In Two Parts. Part 2, Correspondence, etc.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 643.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 11, In Three Parts. Part 1, Reports.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 1079.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union And Confederate Armies. Series 1, Volume 10, In Two Parts. Part 1, Reports.
Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The first series contains formal reports which, according to the preface in Volume 1, will be arranged "according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts" (p. iii). Index starts on page 929.
Date:
1884
Creator:
United States. War Department.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Federal Reporter. Volume 20: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. March-July, 1884.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page vii.
Date:
1884
Creator:
Desty, Robert.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Reporter. Volume 18: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. November, 1883-February, 1884.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page xi.
Date:
1884
Creator:
Desty, Robert.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Reporter. Volume 21: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. August-November, 1884.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page vii.
Date:
1884
Creator:
Desty, Robert.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Reporter. Volume 19: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States. February-May, 1884.
The Federal Reporter contains the text of decisions and commentary regarding cases tried in circuit and district courts throughout the United States. The opinions printed in the volumes include both written statements and oral comments transcribed for publication. Index of cases starts on page xi.
Date:
1884
Creator:
Desty, Robert.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad-cars. This design "relates to car-couplings; and it has for its object to provide improved devices whereby the cars may be automatically coupled; and further, to provide improved devices for this purpose which shall be simple in construction and thoroughly effective in operation" (10-16).
Date:
September 23, 1884
Creator:
Reid, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design is "to provide a spring-power and suitable gearing for operating the dasher, with a view of rendering the same in a high degree effective, convenient, and especially adapted to the requirements of service; [and], to afford facilities for the proper adjustment of the device to the different sizes of churns, and to provide for the quick and convenient detaching of the churn from the driving mechanism" (lines 12-21).
Date:
September 30, 1884
Creator:
Lawrence, Joseph A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a new and improved buckle. This design consists "[i]n a harness-buckle, the combination, with the frame, provided with a tongue-bar having two tongues thereon and a tongue-bar having a single tongue thereon, of a clasp-rest and a hinged clasp near opposite ends of the buckle-frame" (lines 77-82).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Daniel, Ellison Armistead
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Axle Lubricator.
Patent for a new and improved axle lubricator. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the barrel or reservoir, its piston, and screw of the passage leading up from the top of the barrel-chamber, and the tube passing through the axle-collar and into a cavity of the axle arm" (lines 92-97).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Keller, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Charger for Loading Revolvers.
Patent for a new and improved charger for revolvers. This design "consists of a cylindrical case of metal, pasteboard, or other suitable material, contrived with a centerpiece, by which a number of cartridges corresponding to the number of chambers in the cylinder of the fire-arm may be located in the charger suitably for being simultaneously entered at the points in the chambers of the cylinder and be discharged from the charger into the cylinder all at once to facilitate the loading of revolving fire-arms" (lines 8-17).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Munch, John Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Fastening.
Patent for a new and improved bedstead fastening. This design "consist[s] in the locking-pin, the sections which are . . . provided with the laterally projecting alternating studs . . . having aligned vertical perforations to receive the said locking-pin, and their faces provided with the outer beveled flanges at the base of the studs, extending the entire length of the sections, so that when the sections are connected together they will meet each other in angular form, whereby the strain on the locking pin and the lateral studs is equalized" (lines 59-70).
Date:
October 7, 1884
Creator:
Stewart, John Adkerson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sack Holder.
Patent for a new and improved sack holder. This design "is to provide a simple, inexpensive device for holding sacks or receptacles upon pickers of cotton or other plants or fruits, which will distribute the weight of the sack and contents over the body of the picker and enable him [or her] to work more easily and quickly" (lines 7-13).
Date:
October 21, 1884
Creator:
Robinson, John Bell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with the draw-head, of an upright or standard secured thereto, a lever pivoted to said upright or standard, a coupling-pin pivoted to said lever, a flat spring secured to the underside of the draw-head and extending outwardly beyond the same, and a chain connecting said lever and spring" (lines 16-22).
Date:
October 28, 1884
Creator:
Pritchett, William Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Belt Fastener
Patent for new and useful improvement in Belt-fastners by which the end of the belt may be quickly united and held without cutting holes in it.
Date:
November 4, 1884
Creator:
Norris, Albion K.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consist[s] of the frame, raised axle, and arch, having at one end the bearing, the transverse shaft carrying the bevel-gear, and journaled in said bearing, and the vertical arm, the said shaft also carrying a sprocket-wheel, which is connected to a similar wheel upon the axle by means of the endless chain, the cutter-shaft, journaled at opposite ends in the arms . . . and the removable cutter" (lines 68-77).
Date:
November 4, 1884
Creator:
Daniel, William L. & Daniel, Robbert A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a new and improved churn. This design "relates to improvements in churn-powers in which suitable gearing and frame-work operate in conjunction with a vertically-reciprocating dasher; and the objects of [the] improvements are, first, to provide for the quick and convenient detaching of the churn from the driving mechanism; and, second, to afford facilities for the proper adjustment of the device to the different sizes of churns" (lines 7-16).
Date:
November 11, 1884
Creator:
Turner, Hiram O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Seed Planter and Cultivator.
Patent for a new and improved combined planter and cultivator. This design has for its object "to facilitate the planting of seed and the cultivating of plants, and to promote convenience in adjusting the machines for the different kinds of work. The invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts" (lines 21-27).
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Shannon, Thomas Brandon
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Adjustable Book Support.
Patent for a new and improved book rest. This design consists "of an upright pivoted in a support or base, a sliding lower supporting cross-bar, an upper sliding supporting-bar, both bars having sockets upon their rear sides sliding upon the upright and provided with set-screws, and leaf-clamps consisting of a piece of spring doubled at one end to form slides sliding upon the arms of the upper cross-bar, forming curved yielding portions, forming transverse eyes at the other ends, having flat blocks hinged at the said eyes, and provided with thumb-pieces" (lines 72-83).
Date:
November 25, 1884
Creator:
Johnson, William Oscar
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power.
Patent for a new and improved churn-power. This design "consists in the combination, with a vertically-moveable carriage provided with a drum, of a rope wound on the same, and having its upper end secured, from which drum a wheel on the carriage is operated by suitable gearing, the said wheel being connected with the dasher-staff. When the carriage descends under the action of its own weight and of the weight of the parts on it, the drum is revolved and the dasher rod or staff operated" (lines 11-21).
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Williams, Fredrick Fitz
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed Cotton.
Patent for cotton house with bins and conveyors that prevent the cotton from being contaminated.
Date:
December 2, 1884
Creator:
Munger, Robert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History