July 31, 1861 — Army Inventions

The Lambertville Press, Lambertville, NJ

The War and Navy Departments are overrun with parties with new war weapons and inventions pertaining to the army and navy. One man has a new projectile, whose destructive merits are said to be beyond anything conceiveable hitherto brought out: another presents an army tent, capable, almost, of holding all out doors, and of being packed small enough to carry in a pocket; another exhibits an army trunk, of small size, which, when opened, is covered into a bedstead with bed and bedding mosquito canopy, cup, saucer, plate, knife, fork — in fact a dining table and all the dinner utensils; half a dozen others present for consideration hospital beds soft and downy while, as if all these failed to save the poor soldier, a legion of others fill up the rear with ambulaces, warranted to carry the dead twelve at a time, which, as a matter of comfort, are each to occupy a separate apartment. Each of these, and a thousand ether invaluable articles, are backed up by a bulky batch of certificates of utility. But the Departments are slow to appreciate their respective merits, much to the disappointment of competitors.

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