Military incapacity, and what it costs the country
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The Army of the Potomac, and Its Mismanagement; Respectfully Addressed to Congress
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The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers: Containing Plans for the Protection of the Delta from Inundation (Transportation)
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The Laws Of Trade Applied To The Determination Of The Most Advantageous Fare For Passengers On Rail Roads
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The Laws Of Trade Applied To The Determination Of The Most Advantageous Fare For Passengers On Rail Roads
Charles Ellet
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Report On the Improvement of the Kanawha and Incidentally of the Ohio River: By Means of Artificial Lakes
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A Popular Exposition Of The Incorrectness Of The Tariffs Of Toll In Use On The Public Improvements Of The United States
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Charles Ellet
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Report On a Suspension Bridge Across the Potomac for Railroad and Common Travel: Addressed to the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown, Part 3
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Charles Ellet, Jr. was an American civil engineer, who designed and constructed major canals, bridges, river improvements and railroads before the American Civil War.
Background
Charles Ellet, Jr. was born on January 1, 1810, at Penn 's Manor, Pennsylvania, the sixth of the fourteen children of Charles Ellet, a Quaker farmer, and Mary, daughter of Israel Israel, high sheriff of Philadelphia. Israel, who had grown wealthy in Barbados before 1776, was of Swedish or Dutch descent, and a Universalist.
During his youth Ellet, Jr. met, as he said, "many impediments and disappointments. " He had no sympathetic guidance from his eccentric, litigious father, who opposed the boy’s determination to become an engineer; but he was devoted to his mother.
Education
At seventeen Ellet, Jr. left home, working as rodman on the Susquehanna survey, then (1828) entering the service of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal in Maryland as unpaid assistant in field and office and finally becoming assistant engineer at $800 a year. Natural aptitude enabled him to acquire some proficiency in mathematics and language with little formal instruction.
In March 1830, with his mother’s financial assistance, he went to France to attend the École Polytechnique. He witnessed the July revolution, was received by Lafayette, and traveling by foot inspected European and English engineering works.
Career
By 1834 Ellet, Jr. had proposed a suspension bridge over the Potomac, surveyed for the Utica & Schenectady railroad, and located the western line of the New York & Eric. After a year as assistant, in 1836 he became chief engineer of the James River & Kanawha Canal, a work intended to connect Virginia tidewater with the Ohio, and completed as far as Lynchburg when Ellet, Jr. retired (1839).
In 1842 he built, at a cost of $35, 000, the first important suspension bridge in the United States, over the Schuylkill at Fairmount. Having surveyed the city and county of Philadelphia (1841), he became associated with the Schuylkill Navigation Com- pany, reconstructing that important carrier of anthracite coal, personally negotiating loans at home and abroad, and sustaining a notable controversy with the Reading Railroad, the competing line.
In 1847 he left the presidency of the navigation company to build suspension bridges of his own design over the Niagara - a spectacular achievement - and over the Ohio at Wheeling. After he had erected a temporary bridge, the Niagara project was interrupted by litigation and he relinquished that work; but in 1849 he completed his Wheeling bridge, 1, 010 feet long, then the world’s longest span. Although suit in the Supreme Court, instituted in the name of the State of Pennsylvania by Edwin M. Stanton in behalf of Pittsburghers, resulted in a decree of abatement, Ellet, Jr. saved his bridge by inducing Congress to declare it a post-route - only to witness its destruction by storm in 1854.
For twenty-five years he urged the improvement of Western rivers. The Smithsonian Institution published his Physical Geography of the Mississippi Valley (1849) ; and investigations undertaken for the War Department in 1850 resulted in several reports and his magnum opus, published in 1853, The Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. His plan for controlling floods and improving navigation by impounding surplus waters in upland reservoirs, was Ellet’s great work; but vigorous efforts failed to secure the legislation to effect it. (His reports were reissued in 1927 - 1928 for the Flood Control Committee of the Seventieth Congress. ).
He was engineer for the Hempficld Railroad in 1851 - 1855, the Virginia Central in 1853 - 1857- for which in 1854 he built across the Blue Ridge a track of unprecedented curvature and grade - and the Kanawha improvement, in 1858.
After the outbreak of the American Civil War, Ellet, Jr. devised a steam-powered ram that played a role in winning domination of the Mississippi River by the Union. He personally led a fleet of nine rams in the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862. Union forces were victorious, but Ellet, Jr. was mortally wounded. He died of his injuries in a hospital in Cairo, Illinois fifteen days later.