History of the Army of the Cumberland : its organization, campaigns, and battles ; written at the request of Major-General George H Thomas chiefly from his private military journal and official and other documents furnished by him . ces would only occasionallybe required. I believe that General Rosecrans first suggested cutting theframes in two for transportation, and uniting them whenneeded for use. At all events, when I became chief engineer Ifound that one such boat had been prepared, and seemed to dowell. The two parts were connected by keys. After a care-ful examination, I decided to adop
History of the Army of the Cumberland : its organization, campaigns, and battles ; written at the request of Major-General George H Thomas chiefly from his private military journal and official and other documents furnished by him . ces would only occasionallybe required. I believe that General Rosecrans first suggested cutting theframes in two for transportation, and uniting them whenneeded for use. At all events, when I became chief engineer Ifound that one such boat had been prepared, and seemed to dowell. The two parts were connected by keys. After a care-ful examination, I decided to adopt such a boat for our army,but to replace the keys by permanent strap-hinges on the Out-side of the frames. I sent Captain 0Council, of the PioneerBrigade, to Nashville, with a detachment of pontoniers, tobuild a train of such boats, giving him authority to make anyadditional improvements that he or any one else could result was the boat shown in the drawings (Fig. 8),excepting that the framing of the sides has been changed soas to conform more to the usual model. Some minor changeshave also been made, but the boat is in essentials the samethat was so successfully used to cross General Shermans army APPENDIX. 455. e oo oo © CDs: ::^ ^^^^o^:^ 33: :szi rrr- Fig, 8. Frame oe Hinged Canvas Ponton, with Enlarged View of Hinge^ AND OF Middle Brace. over all the rivers between Chattanooga and Atlanta, andwhich afterward accompanied the army in its march to thesea and through the Carolinas. It answered its purpose ad-mirably. So many persons contributed their mite toward thedevelopment of this boat that it is impossible to apportion thecredit properly; but I think that Captain (afterward Major)0Council and Lieutenant (afterward Major) Willett deservespecial mention. General Sherman (Memoirs, vol. 2, p. 401) thus speaks ofcanvas pontons, his reference to the hinge showing that hehad specially in mind the pontons of the Army of the Cum-berland, as the frames of the other can
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