NOTES ON SKETCHES K AND K NO. 2 FROM LT. MacARTHUR'S PRELIMINARY SURVEY of th...Roch Steinbach
Certainly the best way to gain an appreciation for the merits of a harbor, is to attend to the operations of its harbor pilots, and the opinions of those who have worked and run their vessels in the harbor itself. The SECOND great American survey of the Harbor of the Mouth of the Columbia was conducted in 1850, under the command of Lt. William P. MacArthur, U.S.N. [The first survey was in 1841, under Comm. Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition.] Lt. MacArthur's survey not only required weeks for his team, in triangulations and soundings, to develop a full hydrographic profile and thus an entirely revamped, and scientifically up-to-date chart of the harbor; but its clear also that Lt. MacArthur and his team held numerous interviews with -- and toured the river mouth with -- the extraordinary men who had already mapped the channels in their mind: namely, river pilots like Capt. Charles White, Capt. George Flavel and maybe even Capt. Wm. Tichenor, founder of Port Orford. This research paper begins to scratch into the history of this survey, the re "discovery" of the South Channel so critical to safe commercial shipping, and Lt. MacArthur's role in Oregon City, addressing the Territorial Government on the critical issue of necessary harbor improvements ...
YANKEE SCOUT -- Killing of General Sedgwick !!Roch Steinbach
In the days following the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-8, 1864), the Union Army moved south out of the Wilderness of Spottslyvania – Spott’s Woods -- mirroring the movements of General Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, as General Grant continued his pursuit.
Travelling little by night because of the thickets of underbrush, the Union forces moved south by road through the forests, with troops sent out skirmishing on either side, to guard the flanks of the advancing column. Private Calif Newton Drew, Pvt. Henry C. Denbo, and other scouts of the 6th Maine Infantry, were dispatched on this duty….
The Army of the Potomac eventually emerged into an area of sporadically-timbered farmland in the neighborhood of the Spottsylvania County Court House, Virginia, only to find that the rebel sharpshooters that had vigorously harassed them in the thick undergrowth of the Wilderness, had now moved up into the treetops, to positions which afforded them good vantage & many clear shots of the Union skirmishers. Nevertheless, the morning seems a routine one in war, until at the "crack" of a rifle, Union General John Sedgwick drops to the ground -- felled by a head-shot, -- and is dead.
PRIVATE DREW is the last man to speak to him alive ....
NOTES ON SKETCHES K AND K NO. 2 FROM LT. MacARTHUR'S PRELIMINARY SURVEY of th...Roch Steinbach
Certainly the best way to gain an appreciation for the merits of a harbor, is to attend to the operations of its harbor pilots, and the opinions of those who have worked and run their vessels in the harbor itself. The SECOND great American survey of the Harbor of the Mouth of the Columbia was conducted in 1850, under the command of Lt. William P. MacArthur, U.S.N. [The first survey was in 1841, under Comm. Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition.] Lt. MacArthur's survey not only required weeks for his team, in triangulations and soundings, to develop a full hydrographic profile and thus an entirely revamped, and scientifically up-to-date chart of the harbor; but its clear also that Lt. MacArthur and his team held numerous interviews with -- and toured the river mouth with -- the extraordinary men who had already mapped the channels in their mind: namely, river pilots like Capt. Charles White, Capt. George Flavel and maybe even Capt. Wm. Tichenor, founder of Port Orford. This research paper begins to scratch into the history of this survey, the re "discovery" of the South Channel so critical to safe commercial shipping, and Lt. MacArthur's role in Oregon City, addressing the Territorial Government on the critical issue of necessary harbor improvements ...
YANKEE SCOUT -- Killing of General Sedgwick !!Roch Steinbach
In the days following the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5-8, 1864), the Union Army moved south out of the Wilderness of Spottslyvania – Spott’s Woods -- mirroring the movements of General Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, as General Grant continued his pursuit.
Travelling little by night because of the thickets of underbrush, the Union forces moved south by road through the forests, with troops sent out skirmishing on either side, to guard the flanks of the advancing column. Private Calif Newton Drew, Pvt. Henry C. Denbo, and other scouts of the 6th Maine Infantry, were dispatched on this duty….
The Army of the Potomac eventually emerged into an area of sporadically-timbered farmland in the neighborhood of the Spottsylvania County Court House, Virginia, only to find that the rebel sharpshooters that had vigorously harassed them in the thick undergrowth of the Wilderness, had now moved up into the treetops, to positions which afforded them good vantage & many clear shots of the Union skirmishers. Nevertheless, the morning seems a routine one in war, until at the "crack" of a rifle, Union General John Sedgwick drops to the ground -- felled by a head-shot, -- and is dead.
PRIVATE DREW is the last man to speak to him alive ....