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Title: Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War : at the second session Thirty-eighth Congress
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878 Gooch, Daniel Wheelwright, 1820-1891 United States. Congress (38th, 2nd session : 1864-1865). Senate
Subjects: Rosecrans, William S. (William Starke), 1819-1898 United States. Army Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863 Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 Petersburg Crater, Battle of, Va., 1864 Cheyenne Indians
Publisher: Washington, (D.C.) : Government Printing Office
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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ined. Shouldthere be any points not sufiiciently explained, I will be happy to furnish anyinformation on their being indicated to me.Respectfully, your obedient servant, A. 0. RHIXD, Commander. Rear-Admiral D. D. Porter, Commanding N. A. B. Squadron. The powder was stowed within the dotted lines F, M N; the space N, repre-senting the berth-deck, was stowed full up to the tops of the hatches F M, thelower tier said to be in barrels with heads out, upper tiers in canvas bags. Thespace F M, being the forward part of the extension of the deck-house, was onlypartially filled, the powder in canvas bags. The space E was entirely filledwith powder in bags as far as the bulkhead of the passage F. A clock with two ends of Gomez fuze was placed at each end of the passageG and H, one fuze leading through the bags in F and inserted through them andinto bags in the hold at F each side. The other circulated through and in thebags in the space F M P, crossed, married and ending in opened bags in the-
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FORT FISHER EXPEDITION. 255 hold M. In the space D (formerly cook-house) was placed another clock at /,with the fuze inserted in cut bags in the space E, reached by cutting throughthe double bulkhead. A fuze with five pieces of candle was led from D intoE. In the space marked L, at the end of the shaft alley, was stowed pine woodand kindling. No fuze was circulated through the space marked N. The ex-plosion did not take place until one hour and fifty-two minutes after the clocksat G and H were started. The clocks were set to explode the fuze in one hourand a half. Upon reference of this statement to Lieutenant Commander Jefiers, the fol-lowing was received in reply: Navy Ordnance Yard, Fehmary 14, 1865.(Memorandum for Bureau.)I have perused the letter of Commander Rhind, relative to the powder-boat,and find that it agrees essentially with my own description of the arrangement.Commander Rhind objects that the fuze was not circulated through the massof powder in N.^ It was not intended

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