Posted on 10/02/2018 6:05:52 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts
First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.
The General Admiral was a frigate ordered by the Russian Imperial Navy built in New York.
Balloons are a fairly newfangled invention -- Napoleon had no use for them, though lately the French seem more interested, possibly against Austrians?
We have to wonder if any US politician would see their application in warfare?
Maybe even the first aircraft carrier?
I was reading the Wikipedia entry the frigate took 11 days to cross the Atlantic when the Blue Riband holder for fastest crossing was 9 days and 16 hours.
So, a 19th century hybrid.
The ship would be obsolete in a few years. The first ironclad warship the French Glorie was being built at the same time this ship was launched and the HMS Warrior would be laid down a year later. One transitional characteristics of the Russian frigate was the use of iron to reinforce the wooden hull.
From 1856 until 1863 the "Blue Riband" (not called that at the time) was held by Cunard's SS Persia, a 3,300 ton paddle-wheeler, which could do 13 knots.
Persia was nearly 100 feet longer, 1/3 less weight and 80% more powerful engines than the Russian warship.
But General Admiral could do 12.3 knots which was as fast as the fastest civilian ships as recently as 1850.
SS Persia:
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Continued from September 26 (reply #11).
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
I did a second take when I saw the name Allen C. Guelzo on my Twitter timeline this morning. He has an opinion piece on the Kavanaugh business in the Wall Street Journal today. I can’t read it because of their paywall but maybe some of our classmates will be interested.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kavanaugh-may-be-the-democrats-waterloo-1538780107?mod=e2two
Text of the Galesburg debate:
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/debate5.htm
C-SPAN re-enactment:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?59824-1/lincoln-douglas-galesburg-debate
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher
OTTUMWA, Oct 7, 1858.
MR. JOHN T. COX.
SIR, — You are hereby notified that I hold claims against the National Kansas Committee which are good against them and all persons whatever: and that I have authority from said committee to take possession, as their agent, of any supplies belonging to said committee, wherever found. You will therefore retain in your hands all moneys, notes, or accounts you may now have in your custody, by direction of said committee or any of its agents, and hold them subject to my call or order, as I shall hold you responsible for them to me, as agent of said committee.
JOHN BROWN.
Agent National Kansas Committee.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 521
[October 7, 1858.]
Received as agent National Kansas Committee, of J. T. Cox, seven men's coarse cotton shirts, placed in his custody by E. B. Whitman, as agent of said committee, for sale or distribution.
JOHN BROWN,
Agt. Sat. Kan. Com.
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of John Brown, p. 521
Allen C. Guelzo, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America
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