Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War (1894) (14760685724)

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Title: Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ...
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
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Publisher: New York : Mrs. F. Leslie
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant



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Infernal machine designed by the Confederates to destroy the Federal Flotilla in the Potomac discovered by Captain Budd of the steamer Resolute'
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INFERNAL MACHINE DESIGNED BY THE CONFEDERATES TO DESTROY THE FEDERAL FLOTILLA IN THE POTOMAC DISCOVERED BY CAPTAIN BUDD OF THE STEAMER RESOLUTE. An infernal machine designed by the Confederates to blow up the Pawnee and the vessels of the Potomac flotilla, which was set near Aquia Creek, was picked up on the 7th of July, 1861, floating toward the Pawnee. The following description of the article was sent to the, navy department: Two large eighty-gallon oil casks, perfectly watertight, acting as buovs. connected bv twenty-five fathoms of three-and-a-half-ii ioli roj e ^3™/^!squares of cork, every two feet secured to casks by iron handles. A heavy bomb of boiler iron, fitted with a brass tap and filled with Powder. was suspended to the casks six feet under water. On top of the cask was a wooden box, with fuse in a gutta-percha tube. In the centie ot the corK was a platform with a great length of fuse coiled away, occupying the middle of the cask.