half-notches

Updated: May 13, 2025

First, the poles were cut the proper length, planted in a trench around four sides of a square of very small proportions, and secured at the top by string-pieces stretched from one angle to another, in which half-notches hack been made at proper intervals to receive the uprights.

Philip Henry Sheridan - The Memoirs of General Philip H. Sheridan, Volume I., Part 1

First, the poles were cut the proper length, planted in a trench around four sides of a square of very small proportions, and secured at the top by string-pieces stretched from one angle to another, in which half-notches hack been made at proper intervals to receive the uprights.

Philip Henry Sheridan - Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Volume 1

First, the poles were cut the proper length, planted in a trench around four sides of a square of very small proportions, and secured at the top by string-pieces stretched from one angle to another, in which half-notches hack been made at proper intervals to receive the uprights.

Philip Henry Sheridan - Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete

First, the poles were cut the proper length, planted in a trench around four sides of a square of very small proportions, and secured at the top by string-pieces stretched from one angle to another, in which half-notches hack been made at proper intervals to receive the uprights.

- Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals