Rising Tide. Part 25

Eads put on the bell: Dorsey, p. 16; How, pp. 3-8.

"I had occasion to descend": Eads, ALP ALP, p. 153.

need not join the gold rush: How, p. 19.

"It requires little": Dorsey, p. 30.

"To an Absent Husband": Published in Davenport Gazette Davenport Gazette, August 17, 1948, EP.

"I do hope and pray": JBE to Martha Eads, August 16, 1852, Churchill Library.

"dangerous and exposed places": Dorsey, pp. 32-33.

"whose previous pursuits": Quoted in Joseph Gies, Bridges and Men Bridges and Men, p. 150.

"iron muscles": How, p. 55.

"Really he seems": Ibid., pp. 54-57.

"Never let even a p.a.w.n": How, p. 11.

"shut[ting] so emphatically": Ibid., pp. 54-57.

"Fortune favors the brave": Ibid., p. 57.

"Whatever credit is due": Gould, p. 592.

Eads argued for building: L. U. Reavis, St. Louis: The Future Great City of the World St. Louis: The Future Great City of the World, p. 177; Dorsey, p. 49.

"confidential": Bates to JBE, April 16, 1861, EP.

"is greatly superior": Quoted in Dorsey, p. 65.

"Only give me": Ibid., p. 84.

possibly had access: John Kouwenhoven, "The Designing of the Eads Bridge," p. 547.

devoted an entire chapter: James McCabe, Great Fortunes and How They Were Made Great Fortunes and How They Were Made, pp. 209-220.

CHAPTER T TWO.

"ran wild": Henry Humphreys, Andrew Atkinson Humphreys Andrew Atkinson Humphreys, p. 26.

"a source of great": Ibid., p. 35.

First he blocked a rival: AAH to C. Graham, November 21, 1858, AAHP; Gary Ryan, "War Department Topographical Bureau, 1831-1863," Ph.D. diss., p. 201.

"serious irregularity...": Abert to Secretary of War, quoted in Ryan, p. 188.

"capitoline guards": Ryan, p. 199.

"I went to science": Henry Humphreys, p. 190.

"very pleasant": Catton, Grant Takes Command Grant Takes Command, p. 231.

"It is a work": Henry Humphreys, p. 190.

"To sound knowledge": Ibid., p. 57.

"the work of my life": AAH to Charles Lyell, May 28, 1866, AAHP.

In 1835: The best brief discussion of early engineering is an essay by Terry Reynolds, "The Engineer in 19th Century America," in Terry Reynolds, ed., The Engineer in America; The Engineer in America; see also Richard Kirby and Philip Laurson, see also Richard Kirby and Philip Laurson, Early Years of Modern Civil Engineering Early Years of Modern Civil Engineering.

"not above 3": Gene Lewis, Charles Ellet, Jr.: The Engineer as Individualist Charles Ellet, Jr.: The Engineer as Individualist, p. 10.

"The wind was high": Quoted in McCullough, The Great Bridge The Great Bridge, p. 77.

he built a catwalk: Ibid., p. 77.

"At the mouth": P&H P&H, p. 94.

physicist Werner Heisenberg: James Gleick, Chaos Chaos, p. 121.

Engineering theories and techniques: Interview with James Tuttle, Mississippi River Commission, in Vicksburg, October 14, 1993.

"running upstream upstream": AAH to Lee, March 18, 1851, AAHP.

During floods: D. O. Elliott, The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation The Improvement of the Lower Mississippi River for Flood Control and Navigation, vol. 1, p. 94.

for the last 450: Martin Reuss, Army Corps of Engineers, Humphreys Engineering Center, Springfield, Virginia, supplied these figures.

At least some geologists: Philip King, The Evolution of North America The Evolution of North America, p. 77.

Over thousands of years: Harold Fisk, Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi, p. 11.

this sedimentary deposit: Elliott, vol. 1, p. 17.

a book arguing: William Elam, Speeding Floods to the Sea Speeding Floods to the Sea.

"Concentration of force": Report of the Louisiana Senate Standing Committee on Levees and Drainage Report of the Louisiana Senate Standing Committee on Levees and Drainage, March 21, 1850.

"The public mind here": AAH to Capt. J. J. Lee, March 18, 1851, HP.

"We have been to see": Ellet to his mother, March 2, 1851, quoted in Lewis, p. 139.

"I cannot understand": AAH to Lee, March [illegible day], 1851, AAHP; see also Todd Shallat, Structures in the Stream Structures in the Stream, p. 176.

"a most active partisan": AAH to Lee, November 12, 1851, AAHP.

"What is the reason": Undated note, AAHP.

"The clay itself": P&H P&H, p. 98.

"The opinions of Frisi": AAH to Lee, March 18, 1851, AAHP.

"Facts of great interest": Ibid.

"Never was there": AAH to Lee, April 22, 1851, AAHP.

"You see how": AAH to Lee, May 2, 1851, AAHP.

his superiors reprimanded him: See for example AAH to Lee, April 6, 1851, AAHP.

"a lesion of Enervation": Certificate of Surgeon Randall, Mississippi Delta Survey records, NA, Record Group 77 (hereafter, RG).

Ellet began: Ibid., pp. 32-33.

"fail to give": Charles Ellet, Report on the Overflows of the Delta of the Mississippi Report on the Overflows of the Delta of the Mississippi, 32nd Cong. 1st sess., 1852, Sen. Exec. Doc. 20; see also, House Doc., vol. 24, 63rd Cong., Doc. 918, which includes Ellet's report reprinted, p. 27.

"a delusive hope": Ibid., p. 28.

"The water is supplied": Ibid., p. 28.

he proposed a comprehensive: Ibid., pp. 32-33.

"The continued illness": Ibid., p. 24.

CHAPTER T THREE.

"desirous of taking": AAH recounts this in a letter to Charles Lyell, May 28, 1866, AAHP.

"the work of my life": Ibid.

"schooled": Henry Humphreys, p. 324.

"an extremely neat man": Harold Round, "A. A. Humphreys," Civil War Times Ill.u.s.trated Civil War Times Ill.u.s.trated 4 (February 1966). 4 (February 1966).

"I do like": Catton, Grant Takes Command Grant Takes Command, p. 231.

"Gentlemen": Bruce Catton, Glory Road Glory Road (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1952), pp. 72, 280. (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1952), pp. 72, 280.

"The charge of my": AAH to his wife, December 14, 1862, AAHP.

"I felt like": Quoted in Henry Humphreys, p. 190.

"In ten or fifteen": Ibid., p. 179.

"The division has made": Ibid.

"General Humphreys": Round, "A. A. Humphreys."

"It is acknowledged": Henry Humphreys, p. 182.

"The s.p.a.ce occupied": Richard Wheeler, Witness to Gettysburg Witness to Gettysburg, p. 207.

"The newspaper correspondents": Henry Humphreys, pp. 200-202.

"Why, anyone who": Ibid., p. 190.

"I prefer infinitely": Ibid., pp. 200-202.

"My mortification": Ibid., p. 202.

"I know that": AAH to his wife, February 26, 1865, AAHP.

"I have good reason": AAH to his wife, November 25, 1864, AAHP.

"I do not believe": Humphreys to J. de Peyster, June 1, 1883, AAHP.

"The reputation justly due": Henry Humphreys, p. 219.

"Its publication const.i.tutes": New Orleans Daily Crescent New Orleans Daily Crescent, January 30, 1866.

Report upon the Physics: The complete t.i.tle reads The complete t.i.tle reads Report upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River; upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and upon the Deepening of the Mouths: Based upon Surveys and Investigations Made Under the Acts of Congress Directing the Topographical and Hydrographical Survey of the Delta of the Mississippi River, with Such Investigations as Might Lead to Determine the Most Practicable Plan for Securing It from Inundation, and the Best Mode of Deepening the Channels at the Mouths of the River Report upon the Physics and Hydraulics of the Mississippi River; upon the Protection of the Alluvial Region Against Overflow; and upon the Deepening of the Mouths: Based upon Surveys and Investigations Made Under the Acts of Congress Directing the Topographical and Hydrographical Survey of the Delta of the Mississippi River, with Such Investigations as Might Lead to Determine the Most Practicable Plan for Securing It from Inundation, and the Best Mode of Deepening the Channels at the Mouths of the River.

"I am on the verge": Quoted in Steve Rosenberg and John M. Barry, The Transformed Cell The Transformed Cell (New York: Putnam, 1992), p. 7. (New York: Putnam, 1992), p. 7.

"the crowning proof": P&H P&H, p. 324.

"'I approve much'": Ibid., t.i.tle page.

"Every river phenomenon": Ibid., p. 30.

"The investigations": Ibid., pp. 404-407.

"The legitimate consequences": Ibid., pp. 30, 186, 387.