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THE tint anniversary of the let bat- . tie o{ “Bull Run,“ like all the rest, I revives the old questions: Could ; Beauregard have followed up his victory: captured Washington, and held it permanently? Would the war just begun have ended there by compromise? Or, would the north have continued the strug gle for the sapreipacy °f o,d G,OI T’ which side would have been victorious: and where would have been the final bat tlefield? I believe that the questions involved are so complex and so far fetched, that it is‘ beyond the power of “Finite Mind* to of fer a solution that would be generally ac cepted. Yet w.e must not lose sight of the fact that there were possibilities and op portunities so favorable to the Confede acy that it spanned her horiion like an “arch of golden stars!'* All this faded I from view and so the Confederacy died I a cruel death, through the lack of push and energy of the powers that command ed her armies at “Ist Bull Run.'* A contributor to The Journal has seid that the Confederate army was not an “army of invasion," but of peace and sep aration, or words to that effect: Pray teil me. then, by what means did It expect to accomplish that much desired peace and separation? Surely not by standing-on the right bank of the Potomac and shooting away all its ammunition and eating up all its provisions? Not much! ft was an army of Invasion, as all armies are. Truly, its proposition was peace and separation, and U not granted by Its an tagonist it was there to invade her terri tory and make him fight. At the commencement of the war Con federacy had full possession of the south side of the Potomac from Alexandria to its mouth, and defended by strong batteries, in fact the whole coast from Fortress Monroe to Texas, with exception of Key West and Fort Pickens. She had also the Mississippi from Columbus. Ky.. to th* gulf, the Tennessee. Cumberland- and all other important'southern inland rivers. All these were defended by strong bat teries. She had also acquired over 160.000,- OuO In money and valuable war supplies. Her banks and her people had, also, many millions of money, which was given to the cause with loving heart?. She had paid the strict attention to the preparation of war, with the exception of one of its most ■ potent factors. "The Army.*' and without'; an army at least nearly equal in numbers to its antagonist, war on the weaker side generally is a failure. The bravery and endurance of what the Confederacy did have was sublime. The required 100.000' more men than she had July 81. I£6l, fore thought, combined with energy, could have had them, and she needed 30,000 of them at Blackburn's Ford that day. Maryland and Kentucky would have fell into line, also half-hearted Tennessee. Her recruiting grounds enlarged, also her foreign credit. Had General James Longstreet (known later on in the war as "Lee’s Old War Horse") who commanded a brigade in that memorable battle, been in command of Beauregard's army, he would have been in Washington two days later. He was one of the greatest strategists in either army. I did not know that then, but to my great discomfiture, I learned it on the peninsular in front of Richmond, and again on this same battlefield at the sec ond battle of Bull Run. I was only a boy witness, not a soldier, and escaped capture by a hasty flight to Washington, via Sendly Springs. At this second battle I was a participant and es caped the same fate by just as hasty a flight, via Warrenton Pike and Stone Bridge, with that marvellous fighter, *'Stonewall** Jackson ripping up our flanks, “And every follower of his sword Could all endure and dare; Becoming strong in hope Or stronger in despair.” —Lord Houghton's Verses. And the “Old War Horse” thundering at our heels. As previously stated those two great generals were present on the field at the first battle. Then they were only briga dier commanders under Beauregard. Now, they each dictate the movements of an excellent corps, with that general of gen erals. R. E, Lee. at the head. But times are altered. Washington is impregnable by fort and cannon, and bone and sinew. President Davis was compelled to call up on Lee to save the • Confederate capital. Why had he not Lee with those two ex cellent corps at Bull Run, July 21, IS6I. to capture the federal capital? When the ordinance of secession was adopted there were fifteen slave-holding states, three territories and the District of Columbia, representing nearly 4,000.000 slaves, which might naturally be expected to wield a powerful Influence in behalf of secession, and when it became known ear ly In June that only eleven of that number had fell into line, it behooved the Confed erate power that ruled to put in the field an adequate army to bring in those state? of so vital importance to future success, vis.: Missouri, Maryland and Kentucky, knowing that their lukewarmness only required a little extra fuel to make them boil. Maryland alone was worth all the others at that stage of the game. I mean by that. Western Virginia would not have been lost, and northern sympathy utilised, to better effect. It required a great mili tary genius with absolute control of the movements of her armies, and a president and secretary of war willing to supply the sinews of war. For the former position, General R. E. Lee; next in line, James Longstreet, T. J. Jackson and Albert Sid ney Johnston, that galaxy of invtncibles, directing with freedom the movements of an army, all else being equal, there could not be a suggestion of defeat. What I have presumed to offer in this article may appear worthless or of little value to the reader. Nevertheless, they are the honest convictions of a soldier who served four years with the federal army on the battle line for the preservation and integ rity of our great national union and Old u.ory, not for the freedom of the black man and suffrage. Had we been able to have kept at home tnose wild and blear-eyed black abolition ists that overran the south, tore up their so-called underground railroads, sent them on missions of slumming through the cess pools of their native cities and towns, we would have had no war. Their work was the harbinger of the state rights, nullifica tion, separation, secession, and a myriad other alarms long before the writer was born, and in ray day* the border troubles, until their boldness led them to dare civil or national authority, and the execution of Ossawattomie Brown served only to intensify their struggle: then the war bitter and cruel, the sacrifice ot billions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of killed and maimed white humanity. I remember that when the Confederate provisional congrees. which had been pre viously made up, delegates appointed by state convention, met at Montgomery, Ala., on the 4th of February, and after several days of deliberation, had chosen Jefferson Davis, provisional president, and Alexander H. Stephens, provisional vice president. there was much excitement mingled with bitter invective and sympa thy. War preparations were progressing in the south and the loyal people talked in whisper* and shook their heads, the copperhead or fire in the rear, said noth ing. but with stolid look strolled the streets. It was evident that the peacefully inclined were the war Democrats, other wise known as Douglass Democrats, with a fair springllng of Republicans and hoped for a peaceful adjustment of the troubled state of affairs, but a little later, when Beauregard opened his guns on Sumter, excitement ran high and President Lin coln's call for 75,000 troops opened up re cruiting offices on every corner. Thou sands of atile-bodled men crowded in and THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ALL ANT A, GEORGIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1902. clamored for acceptance, as soldiers in the ranks of the union, yet people were slow in believing that a battle would ever be fought, nevertheless. Michigan had pushed four regiments to th* front and very busy in the preparation of more. Mv friend, K. C. Bullard, of Milledge ville. Ga.. a noble* son of the Confederacy, has requested me to write up some of my dos* calls; as my first close call was lt» the first battle of Bull Run, as well as the most interesting, in view of the fact that I had only just passed in my sixteenth year to old father time, I would not be accepted as a soldier, and determined to see the two armies in action, which later I foresaw was Inevitable. I went to the battlefield and ran back like the rest Having, as I believed, convinced my fa ther, that it would bp greatly to my bene fit to go to Washington with his consent and ample means and promise to my mother not to go near the danger line, took passage on a steamer for Cleveland and thence by rail to Washington. Learning that the army was not in Washington but over in Virginia and the Michigan men stationed at Munsen's hill, procuring a saddle horse crossed the chain bridge and entered the grand old commonwealth of Virginia, visited our old family surgeon and the Michigan regiments and with Dr. William Brodie rode several miles along the federal lines. I passed the Arlington house, the home of the Illustrious R. E. Lee, then the head quarters of General McDowell, command- ■ ing the federal army. I returned to Washington. Surprising as it may appear, at least so far as my observation went, you could easily imagine yourself in a secession city. Were it not for the pres ence of union soldiers, and those foing business in and around government build ings, even at the hotel, where I was stop ping, I made the acquaintance of a gen tleman who appeared very' friendly, but one morning when I appeared in neat tailor-made soldier’s tipiform, his first ln ’terrogation was: "Have you enlisted?” 1 replied that I had not. “Why have you adopted that uniform?” I replied that I was going to march with the army to the battlefield and that the uniform would be more serviceable and appropriate. Telling me it would be more serviceable and ap propriate for me to take the first train home, he walked away. However, I recroesed the river and joined the Mich . igan boys, always returning at night, be ■ cause of the fact that Beauregard’s black horse cavalry was. they told me, expect ed any night and I wanted to be on the safe side of the river. In my daily visits I learned that the Confederate army, under, the command of Brigadier General P. G. T. Beaure gard, (this from official records), con sisted of the brigades of Holmes, Bon ham, Ewell, D. R. Jones, Longstreet, Occke and Early, containing twenty-eight regiments and battalions of infantry, one regiment and three battallions of cavalry and six batteries of artillery, making an aggregate available force of 22.000 men, with twenty-seven* cannons. This army was posted on the right bank of Bull Run, extending from Union Mills to the War renton Pike. Ewell was posted at Union Mills, supported by Holmes. McLean’s Ford by D. R. Jones, and Blackburn's Ford by Brigadier General James Long street, supported by Early. Mitchell’s Ford by Bonham. On the north and south side of the pike were posted by Cocke’s brigade and one regiment under Evans. Guarding the stone bridge that crosses Bull Run at that point. Beauregard’s headquarters were at Manasses Junction. Tills army was designated the army of the Potomac. The Federal army,,under command of Brigadier General Irving McDowell, designated the army of north ern Virginia, was composed of five divi sions, commanded in the order named: First division. Brigadier General Tyler; apcond division, CJblonel Hunter; third division, Colonel Helntzelman; fourth di vision, Brigadier General RUnyon; fifth division. Colonel Mlles. Twelve batteries or forty-nine cannons, one battallion of cavalry of all arms, 35,000 men, with full understanding that 10,000 reserves were to be added. Before starting, its position was semi-circular in form, extending from Alexandria to a considerable distance above Georgetown. The Confederate army of the Shenandoah, under the com mand of General Joseph E. Johnston, numbered about 8,000, consisting of the brigades of Bee, Bartow, Kirby 7 Spilth and Brigadier General T. J. Jackson, two regiments of infantry, not brigaded, one regiment of cavalry, five batteries, twenty guns. This little army was fighting around Winchester, against an army of 22,000 Federals, under compand of General Patterson, who was supposed at least to keep Johnston there until McDowell defeated Beauregard! With that end in view, on the afternoon of July 16, 1861, McDowell put this very formidable army In motion, head of column directed to ward Bull Run, to bray the army of Beau regard—but oh! Tornadoes! How did it come back?—Brayed! The First Mlch gan belonged to Helntzelman’s Third di vision. The writer went with Mich igan, with a well-fllled haversack and canteen of fresh milk, procured at my hotel in Washington. The afternoon was very hot, and the juggling around of the canteen churned the milk and fermenta tion set in afid the whole business had to be thrown away. But 25 cents made me all right with an officer’s cook. It was nearly noon of the 18th before all the army were concentrated around Cen terville, which was eight miles of the Confederate fortifications, west of the “Run.” I brought no blanket along and would have stood in no particular need of one had we advanced at the rate that we returned. Trophy hunters had occupied every yard of space in the lit tle town of Centerville before we had left for the battlefield. The movements of th* supply trains were much in keeping with the Irishman’s pig, and the army suffered for supplies and took advantage of the delay forced upon him to reconnoit er Beauregard's recondite lines. In the meantime he had ordered General Taylor to take the first division and make a demonstration on the stone bridge, but for some unknown reason he demon strated on Blackburn’s Ford. Longstreet was waiting and watching. Letting the Federal troops approach within short range, he let his batteries loose. Ayres’ Federal battery responded, but was soon silenced. Richardson’s brigade, with the Second Michigan thrown out as skirmish ers, advanced to a level bottom near the Run. which proved a veritable hornet’s nest. Three more regiments were sent forward. Then pandemonium broke loose, with the result that Tyler’s men, after sustaining a severe loss, fled back to near the pike, completely demoralized. That affair cast a gloom over the whole army, and ex tremely so, for of the troops who fought there were none who so completely lost their heads as did General Tyler. He nev er fully recovered until within sight of the spires in Washington. McDowell, having discovered that the fords south of the stone bridge were so strongly guarded, re solved to take Beauregard by the right flank byway of Burns’ ford, and while the army was getting supplied, as it could not move until it was, he devoted that time in exploring the route to be taken. His plans were excellent, but delay was disastrous, as Johnston had eluded Pat terson snd was hastening from Winches ter to Manassas Junction, and would be on the battlefield before ths federal army crossed the ford. The army supplied. Mc- Dowell issued orders to move at 2:30 a. m. July 21st. Tyler’s division was to ad vance down the pike to the stone bridge snd make repeated demonstrations at that point of attack. Hunter's and Helntzel man's divisions, after marching 1 1-2 miles down the pike, would take a road running north Blackburn's ford. Tyler being in advance, the two latter divisions could not move until he got out cf the way. As I said before, he had lost his head, or was afraid of the bridge. Whatever it might be. he did not clear the road before 6:30 a. m. lhen Hunter’s and Heintzelman's divisions moved out, and by the right flank marched to the battlefield. The writer was marching with Heintzel man. He was ruminating about the com ing tattle. Beyond that little stream that we were soon to cross a little army was waiting for U 3 to give battle. Over its reg iments fluttered a little flag, made up of stars and bars, demanding of "Old Glory” only equality and independence. The prop osition seems fair enough. Why can we not abide in this fair land as loving broth ers and under two flags? Would it not still remain a great national union? Would any hostile power dare to put foot upon our sacred soil? Would our interests not be mutual? “Alas, we had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above, And life is thorny and youth is vain, And- to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness on th? brain.” —Coleridge’s Cristobal. As we were marching to the front some regiments were marching in the opposite direction, their time having expired (three months men). That was discouraging to those whose time also would soon expire. The march was slow, and the writer mov ed up along the flanks. As the head of Hunter’s division crossed the ford he crossed with it. Burnside’s brigade being the head of the column, marched by the left flank and headed uirectly south for the stone ridge. Time, about 9:30 a. m. We had not gone far before a battery posted on a piece of high ground dis covered our approach, and with terrific roar gave us no reason to think that it did not mean business. Burnside swung into battle line as he marched and threw out skirmishers. Other regiments came up to the support of Burnside. Then a line of battle on the hill sent in one volley, and the battle was on. It was Evans who opened the battle. Hunter’s whole divis ion was joining in. General Hunter was leading Burnside's brigade, and was car ried back wounded. The line still advanced. Griffin's and Rlckett’s batter ies had come into action. The atmosphere was a howling wilderness, and its timber is iron and lead. Burnside falls back; Por ter takes his place; General Jackson has come to Beauregard's support; Bee’s brig ade is sent to the support of Evans, and the battle rages with awful fury. The wounded were coming to the rear by the hundreds, and the Confederates were driven across Young’s branch. I was standing in the midst of a group of woun ded and a fair sprinkling of unwounded ran away, seemingly in a comparatively safe place, but the watchful eye of a Con federate cannoneer penetrated our haven of safety and sent a shell in that explod ed within 20 feet of us, cutting one poor fellow in two, wounding five or six oth ers, tearing away my haversack and the left pocket of my jacket, with the ex clamation. "My God, this is awful!" and "Swifter than any deer, bounded to the rear, Filled with sham* and mortal fear.” Helntzelman’s division was advancing at a swift pace, coming in on Hunter’s right, Wilcox's brigade in the lead composed ot the Eleventh New York Fire Zouaves, Thirty-eighth New York, First and Sec ond Michigan and Second U. 3. artillery. The writer followed this brigade into ac tion, it was my only alternative; if I should need protection from the Black Horse cavalry which was prone at any moment to sweep the rear. I had no par ticular dread of Infantry, but an eternal one of a man on a horse, with sword and pistol. The Thirty-eighth New York and Fire Zouaves deployed into line advanced across Young’s branch; drove the enemy before them and charged the Henry House Hill. The First Michigan charged further to their right RlckeJt’s and Griffin’s bat teries advanced and opened furiously on the Confederate masses on the Henry House Hill. The Thirty-eighth New York in its first charge gained the Warrenton pike where the Ludley and Brentville road crosses it. The First Michigan and the Fire Zouaves were acros it with their backs to the west Supporting the batter ies. Our two divisions are now In action —a perfect tempest loaded with lead and iron sweeps both hill and valley. The tide of battle ebbs and flows, the bridge is cleared but no Tyler appears; Black burn’s ford was sufficient for him; Sher man and his bummers cross the run north of the bridge, charged up the hill and immediately returned and got out of ac tion. Colonel Wilcox was wounded and made a prisoner; a Confederate regiment in Federal uniform advanced almost up to one of our batteries, poured a wither ing volley into it and horses and gunners were no more, (that was Rlckett’s bat tery). Griffin met almost the same fate. The First Michigan charged a Confederate battery fofir times and were as many times repulsed. The Zouaves charged and were cut to pieces. The ponderous Blue Line moves slowly, shaped like forked lightning. The Confederates are pushed back like a swarm of bees before a tornado, but they gather strength and increase in numbers as they go, only to return and stick and stab and sting and throw their fiery darts, and yell more loud and hor rid than Milton's Hideous Lump that posed as hellgate guard. Along the Henry house plateau were the brigades of Evans, Holmes, Cocke, Kirby Smith, Bee and Bartow, at least fragments of them, from around their common center (Stonewall Jackson). By simultaneous charges they swept the earth from Bald Hill, west and northward, and eastward to the Sudly and road, which ran north and south, flying jn every direction that led across Bull Run. The Union army went for safety, and the Confederate army had won its first great victory. Old Glory’s defenders met their first defeat. They had stood to their work nobly, but that day they were no match for the de fenders of the star? and bars. As the First Michigan entered into a double quick for the pike I was a considerable distance in the rear. I made a rush through a clump of bushes to catch up and lost my cap. The shells were bursting around me so promiscuously that I left it and picked up a nice Confederate cap a short distance beyond Young’s branch. It was not much darker and of the same shape as my own. I had found a very safe place from where I could see the battle and in full view of the First Michigan, but when our army retreated I had to break cover and take the lead; a coward who had not been in the fight, poked his head from behind a stump, pointing his gun at me, commanded me to halt and take off that d—d rebel cap. I threw it at him and I presume he kept it as a relic for his people of a rebel that he killed at First Bull Run. Shooting out like a catapult for SUdly springs and the clump of bushes where I lost my first cap, I struck the aforesaid bushes all rfcjht, but a limb struck me across the throat and hurled me backwards and landed me on the back of my head mak ing a lump the size of a plum. I found my cap, crossed Bull Run and started for Washington and home. On reaching the pike the sight that met my eyes couid not be written, but imagine a man with his hair and coattails on fire fleeing out of a burning building and you will have a fairly good idea of how the fright and flight appeared. The official reports of that battle shows the Union loss in killed wounded and missing to be 2,996; the Con federate 1,992. Speeding along on the flanks and through fields I reached Washington about 3:30 p. m. of the 22d and escaped the “Black Horse Cavalry." 417 Vlnewood Ave., Detroit, Mich. AID FOR ARMOUR GIRL. Lolita, the Heiress, to Be Cured, If Possible, By Science. Chicago Chronicle. Five-year T pld Lolita Armour, since her birth so badly crippled that she has never taken a step, is soon to receive treatment from'two of the greatest surgeons in the world. The disarticulated hip joints, which have defied all the efforts of science, have been the cause of almost un endurable unhappiness to her millionaire father, J. Ogden Armour, and Mrs. Ar mour, who now have sent across the At- | lantlc for the'best specialists that money can employ. Dispatches from Vienna last night an nounced that the surgeons had left for Chicago to perform the operation, in which the best American specialists have failed of complete success. Professor Adolf Lorenz, of the medical faculty as the University of Vienna, and Dr. FriyOrich Mueller, known to medical ' science as one of the greatest specialists in bone diseases, are the surgeons who are expected to bring joy to the Armour household. Dr. Lorenz is the first surgeon who ever performed the particular operation neces sary in this case, and he has performed it with success many times in Europe. He has expressed full confidence in his ability and. with the assistance of Dr. Mueller, to give Lolita Armour the ust of her legs. Dr. Lorenz is professor of orthopedic surgery In the University ot Vienna and also attending surgeon at the general hospital of the Austrian capital., Dr. Mueller is also connected with both these institutions. The services of these eminent specialists were engaged after correspondence which began last spring and culminated in the visit of J. Ogden Armour to Europe last summer. There was gloom In the Armour house hold when the child’s misfortune was dis covered. Surgeons advised that no at tempt be made to connect the disarticu lated joints until she had gained strength with several years’ growth. The liga ments at the hip sockets are too weak to hold the great bones in place. Until baby Lolita was a year old she was kept in a rosewood incubator to strengthen the tiny frame. On December 31, 1900, Dr. John Ridlon performed an operation to restore the heiress to health by attempt ing to set the hips in place. The opera tion Was performed by the eminent sur geofl after he had spent months studying the case. The joints were set and there was every hope that they would remain in proper position, but in spite of the suc cessful work of the surgeon and the ut most care given the child never gained free use of her limbs. The parents, however, did not give up hope and subsequently they began nego tiations to employ the skill of European scientists. Professor Lorenz was sug gested by the greatest surgeons in Amer ica and Mr. Armour and several local surgeons wrote to him of the case. Cor respondenc* continued until Mr. Armour went to Europe to arrange for the com ing of Professor Lqrenz and Dr. Muel ler. The surgeons left Vienna on their important mission a few days ago. The case of Lolita Armour has been watched with deep Interest by the scien tific world ever since the child’s mis fortune became known. Welsh Indians In America. London Chronicle. Though public attention has lately been directed to Welsh settlers tn America, the question lacks the great Interest caused in the eighteenth century by the statement that a tribe of Welsh Indians had been discovered. In the seventeenth century John Josselyn, In his “Voyages to New England," mentioned that the customs of the inhabitants resembled those of an cient Britons, and Sir Thomas Herbert, another traveler of the same date, in his “Travels,” gave Welsh words In use among these Indians. A century later re ports from several traders and other* were received of an Indian tribe that pos sessed manuscript, spoke Welsh and re tained ceremonies of Christian worship. Among other Information then published was the report of Captain Abraham Chap lain, of Kentucky, that his garrison near the Missouri had been visited by Indians who conversed in Welsh with some Welsh ’ men in hie company. Those Indians were thought to be descendants of a colony said to have been formed by Madoc, son of Owen Gwynedd, on his discovery of Amer ica In 1170. The Secretive Seminoles. Jacksonville Times-Union. Mrs. Moore Wilson, who made a study of the subject, says: “From the best obtain able sources there were in the year 1859 only 112 Indians left in Florida. In 1880, by actual count, as reported by the Smithsonian Insti tution. the Seminoles of Florida numbered 208. According to data gotten from the Indians themselves, the tribe today (1896) numbers nearly 600." To < this we may add that in 1884 the senate committee ot Indian affairs asked the question of three Floridians supposed to be most fully capable of giving the facts. One answered 250, one 200, and one 300. The census of 1900 guesses the number at about 500. The truth is. no white man knows. The Indians carefully conceal such knowledge as they think might be useful to the government in any attempt at removal, and it is mainly for this reason that they refuse an allowance, which must be preceded by a count. They have no confidence in the good faith or good intentions of either the state or nation—they remember that nd treaty has been kept, no promise regarded, and they prefer to remain hidden so far as they may. A few white men have gained their confidence, but these Imbibe the distrust of the Indian, as they prefer the ways of the uncivilized to our progress. Poison in Potatoes. Exchange. A poisonous principle* called solanlne has long been known to exist in the berries of the common potato plant. Indeed, for the purpose of preparing the alkaloid In the pure state the berries are conveniently employed. It may also be obtained from the night shade and the bittersweet, the alkaloid belna found in all parts of these common English plants be longing to the salanum nightshade order. Cases of poisoning from potatoes are, however, ex tremely rare, although those recorded are well defined. It is undoubtedly the case that there is a time when the »otato may contain an im portant quantity of poison, and this appears to be when the tuber has begun to germinate and to shrivel. In that case the solanlne has been found chiefly in the peel and at the root of the eyes or shoots. This fact would seem to ac count for the death of a child recently in Bristol. England. Among other things which she had eaten were some potato peelings, and the medical evidence showed that the child died with symptoms consistent with solanlne poison ing. which are similar to those of strychnine poisoning, but less acute. 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The result has been the commercial development of a large number of so-called “systems” of re inforced concrete construction, many of them bearing such a close resemblance to each other as to demand a ven minute inspection be fore the particular twist or bend to the wire which constitutes the difference can be de tected. As a matter of fact, almost any combi nation of steel rods or light bars embedded in concrete will vastly increase the strength of the whole, upon the tension side, at a trifling Increase in cost; and there is little doubt that in its various forms reinforced concrete is des tined to be more and more extensively used in construction. 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