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Agnus, Felix, 1839-
Journalist; born in Lyons, France, July 4, 1839; was educated in the College of Jolie Clair, near Paris; came to the United States in 1860, and in the following year entered the Union army in Duryea's Zouaves (5th New York Volunteers). At Big Bethel he saved the life of Gen. Judson Kilpatrick.
He aided in recruiting the 165th New York Volunteers, of which he was made captain: in 1862 he participated in the siege of Port Hudson, La.; afterwards was promoted major and lieutenant-colonel.
He next served in the 19th Corps under Sheridan and in the department of the South.
On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, and in August of the same year was mustered out of the service.
After the war he became the editor and publisher of the Baltimore American.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Amidas , Philip , 1550 -1618 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Andros , Sir Edmund , -1714 (search)
Arkansas, the,
A Confederate ram, employed chiefly on the Yazoo River, above Vicksburg.
Farragut sent three armored vessels about the middle of July, 1862, to attack her. Six miles up the stream they found and assailed her; but she repulsed the attack, and took shelter under the batteries at Vicksburg.
Another attempt to capture her was made on July 22 by the Essex (Captain Porter) and the Queen of the West.
Again the attempt was unsuccessful.
After the repulse of the Confederates at Baton Rouge, early in August, Porter, with the Essex and two other gunboats, went in search of the Arkansas, and found her 5 miles above that city.
A sharp engagement ensued.
the Arkansas became unmanageable, when her crew ran her against the river-bank, set her on fire, and she was blown up.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Asboth , Alexander Sandor , 1811 - (search)
Asboth, Alexander Sandor, 1811-
Military officer; born in Hungary, Dec. 18, 1811.
He had served in the Austrian army, and at the outbreak of the revolution of 1848 he entered the insurgent army of Hungary, struggling for Hungarian independence.
He accompanied Kossuth in exile in Turkey.
In the autumn of 1851 he came to the United States in the frigate Mississippi, and became a citizen.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861 he offered his services to the government, and in July he went as chief of Fremont's staff to Missouri, where he was soon promoted to brigadier-general.
He performed faithful services until wounded in the face and one arm, in Florida.
in a battle on Sept. 27, 1864.
For his services there he was brevetted a major-general in the spring of 1865.
and in August following he resigned, and was appointed minister to the Argentine Republic.
The wound in his face caused his death in Buenos Ayres, Jan. 21, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Big Blue Lick, battle at. (search)
Big Blue Lick, battle at.
Parties of Indians and Tories, from north of the Ohio, greatly harassed the settlements in Kentucky in 1782.
A large body of these, headed by Simon Girty, a cruel white miscreant, entered these settlements in August.
They were pursued by about 180 men, under Colonels Todd, Trigg, and Boone, who rashly attacked them (Aug. 19) at the Big Blue Lick, where the road from Maysville to Lexington crosses the Licking River in Nicholas county. One of the most sanguinary battles ever fought in Kentucky then and there occurred.
The Kentuckians lost sixty-seven men, killed, wounded, and prisoners; and, after a severe struggle, the rest escaped.
The slaughter in the river was great, the ford being crowded with white people and Indians, all fighting in horrid confusion.
The fugitives were keenly pursued for 20 miles. This was the last incursion south of the Ohio by any large body of barbarians.