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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4. 6 6 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 6 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 6 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 6 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 6 6 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 5 5 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 5 5 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 5 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 5 5 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 5 5 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
eaty of peace, at a late hour, a clause in the treaty (1782) was interlined, prohibiting, in the British evacuation, the carrying away any negroes or other property of the inhabitants. So this treaty of peace, in which no word had, excepting indirectly, indicated the existence of slavery in the United States, made known to the world that men could be held as property. The legislature of Connecticut, early in 1784, passed an act that no negro or mulatto child born within that State after March 1 that year should be held in servitude longer than until the age of twenty-five years. In 1788 the captain of a vessel in Boston seized three colored persons, took them to the West Indies, and sold them there for slaves. This event caused the legislature of Massachusetts to pass a law to prevent the slave-trade in that State, and for granting relief to the families of such persons as may be kidnapped or decoyed from the commonwealth. The law subjected to a heavy penalty any person who s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Southern Confederacy. (search)
n the subject of bankruptcies throughout the Confederate States, but no law of Congress shall discharge any debt contracted before the passage of the same. 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the Confederate States. 7. To establish post-offices and postroutes; but the expenses of the post-office department, after the first day of March, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenues. 8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court. 10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. 11. To declare war, grant lett
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Tennessee, (search)
portunity of placing the American eagle on the ramparts of Mobile, Pensacola, and Fort Augustine, effectually banishing from the Southern coasts all British influence. Jackson was then forty-six years of age. The troops, after many hardships, reached Natchez and disembarked, when they met an order from Wilkinson to halt there and await further orders, as he had no instructions concerning their employment; nor had he quarters for their accommodation. There Jackson and his men waited until March 1, when he wrote to the Secretary of War, saying he saw little chance for the employment of his small army in the South, and suggested that they might be used in the North. Day after day he waited anxiously for an answer. At length one came from John Armstrong, the new Secretary of War, who wrote simply that the causes of calling out the Tennessee volunteers to march to New Orleans had ceased to exist, and that on the receipt of that letter they would be dismissed from public service. He
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Texas, (search)
th a well-provided army of 7,500 men, set out for the recovery of Texas. He invested the Alamo (q. v.), a strong fort near San Antonio with 4,000 men, and, after bombarding it eleven days, carried it by storm. It was garrisoned by about 170 men, under Capt W. B. Travis. The whole garrison was massacred (March 6) by order of Santa Ana—only one woman, a child, and a servant were saved. Remember the Alamo! was a Texan war-cry after that. The Mexicans lost, in the attack, 1,600 men. On March 1 a convention issued a dec laration of independence, and a provisional president (David G. Burnet) was chosen. On the 27th the command of Colonel Fanning, at Goliad, were massacred in cold blood, and successive defeats of the Texans produced a panic. Houston, meanwhile. in order to scatter the Mexican forces, continually fell back, until he reached San Jacinto. There, at the head of a force of 800 troops, he gave battle (April 21, 1836) to about twice that number of Mexicans, and in the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Twiggs, David Emanuel 1790-1862 (search)
a negotiation for surrender (begun by the commissioners as early as the 7th) was consummated. He gave up to the Confederate authorities of Texas all the National forces in that State, about 2,500 in number, and with them all the stores and munitions of war, valued, at their cost, at $1,200,000. He surrendered all the forts in his department. By this act Twiggs deprived the government of the most effective portion of the regular army. When the government heard of it, an order was issued (March 1) for his dismissal from the army of the United States for treachery to the flag of his country. Twiggs threatened, in a letter to the ex-President, to visit Buchanan in person, to call him to account for officially calling him a traitor. The betrayed troops, who, with most of their officers, remained loyal, were allowed to leave Texas, and went to the North, taking quarters in Fort Hamilton, at the entrance to New York Harbor. General Twiggs was then given an important position in the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
reports, concerning impeachment, its inability to conclude its labors (report presented at 3 A. M. Sunday, March 3), and recommends a continuance of investigation......March 2, 1867 Thirty-ninth Congress adjourns......March 4, 1867 Fortieth Congress, first session, convenes......March 4, 1867 Schuyler Colfax re-elected speaker by a vote of 127 to 30 for Samuel S. Marshall, of Illinois. [The first session of the Fortieth Congress was continued by repeated adjournments, sitting—First, March 4-29; second, July 3-20; third, Nov. 21–Dec. 2, when it adjourned sine die. Congress distrusting the President, it was deemed advisable that the President should not be allowed to have control of events for eight months without the supervision of the legislative branch of the government. Benj. F. Butler enters Congress for the first time at this session as Republican representative from Massachusetts.] General Orders No. 10, issued from army headquarters by direction of the President,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
......March 2, 1836 Alamo invested eleven days by Santa Ana; the garrison, under Colonel Travis, Bowie, and David Crockett, are overpowered and massacred......March 6, 1836 Mexicans defeated in the first fight at the Mission del Refugio by Texans under Captain King......March 9, 1836 Second fight of the Mission del Refugio; Colonel Ward attacks and drives back the Mexicans......March 10, 1836 Constitution adopted for the Republic of Texas by a convention which met at Washington, March 1......March 17, 1836 Col. J. W. Fannin and 415 men, captured at Coleto by the Mexicans under General Urrea, are taken to Goliad, and 330 shot by Santa Ana......Sunday, March 27, 1836 Colonel Ward retreats from Refugio, March 11; he surrenders his forces at Victoria, March 24, and is massacred......March 28, 1836 San Felipe de Austin burned by the Texans......March 31, 1836 New Washington burned by the Mexicans......April 20, 1836 Battle of San Jacinto; 750 Texans under General
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worth, William Jenkins 1794-1849 (search)
Worth, William Jenkins 1794-1849 Military officer; born in Hudson, N. Y., March 1, 1794; began life as a clerk in a store at Hudson, and entered the military service, as lieutenant of infantry, in May, 1813. He was highly distinguished in the battles of Chippewa and at Lundy's Lane, in July, 1814, and was severely wounded in the latter contest. He was in command of cadets at West Point from 1820 to 1828, and in 1838 was made colonel of the 8th United States Infantry. He served in the Seminole War from 1840 to 1842, and was in command of the army in Florida in 1841-42. He was brevetted a brigadiergeneral in March, 1842, commanded a brigade under General Taylor in Mexico in 1846, and was distinguished in the capture of Monterey. In 1847-48 he commanded a division, under General Scott, in the capture of Vera Cruz, and in the battles from Cerro Gordo to the assault and capture of the city of Mexico. He was brevetted major-general, and was presented with a sword by Congress, b
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