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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...Excellency the Governor." And this is the report of the Resident Engineer: "In obedience to the directions contained in the above Minute, I have the honor to submit the following statement for the information of His Excellency the Governor. Two consignments of Cast Iron Pipes have so far been received for the Water Works; the first which arrived by the s.s. 'G.M. B.' contained no damaged pipes; ten 3" pipes were short delivered and duly reported that their value might be' recovered by means of the Crown Agents. Therefore, the hon. Dr. Mizzi's statements cannot possibly have reference to this consignment, as no pipes had been put aside as damaged. The second consignment arrived by the s.s. 'Congress'. According to the Charter Party the pipes were delivered on the wharf. Two men, under charge of the Storekeeper of the Water Works, received the pipes on the wharf, took note of their number and size which they compared with the Invoice. Two experienced fitters tested the eoundness of each pipe that was landed, in the usual manner, by means of hammers; those that wcre found injured were put aside and noted by the Storekeeper; the rest were carefully stacked. Five were found broken and unserviceable; these were duly reported, and their value was at once recovered from the AgenU of the Charterers. Four other pipes were found cracked at the spigot end, and put aside, but they were not rejected, being reserved to be cut up and used as short-pipes. I was present on the wharf durine the landing and tttacking of the pipes, almost from beginning to end. Nearly ali the pipes have since then been again tested under pressure in the trenches, and not a single one has so far been found defective, which would surely not have been the case, if...
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In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the first major new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the war as a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatest failure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelical religion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening surged through America, political questions became matters of good and evil to be fought to the death. The price of that failure was horrific, but the carnage accomplished what statesmen could not: It made the United States one nation and eliminated slavery as a divisive force in the Union. The victorious North became synonymous with America as a land of innovation and industrialization, whose teeming cities offered squalor and opportunity in equal measure. Religion was supplanted by science and a gospel of progress, and the South was left behind. Goldfield's panoramic narrative, sweeping from the 1840s to the end of Reconstruction, is studded with memorable details and luminaries such as HarrietBeecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman. There are lesser known yet equally compelling characters, too, including Carl Schurz-a German immigrant, warhero, and postwar reformer-and Alexander Stephens, the urbane and intellectual vice president of the Confederacy. America Aflame is a vivid portrait of the "fiery trial"that transformed the country we live in.
