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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 3 3 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), West Virginia, state of (search)
s organized at Wheeling......July 9, 1863 Gen. W. W. Averill defeats Maj. John Echols in battle of Droop Mountain......Nov. 6, 1863 Transfer of the counties of Berkeley (Aug. 5, 1863) and Jefferson (Nov. 2, 1863) from the State of Virginia to West Virginia is recognized by joint resolution of Congress......March 10, 1866 Amendments to State constitution ratified, excluding from citizenship all who had, subsequent to June, 1861, given voluntary aid to the Southern Confederacy......May 24, 1866 Legislature ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment......Jan. 16, 1867 West Virginia University at Morgantown opened......June 17, 1867 Legislature ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment......March 3, 1869 Charleston chosen as seat of government by legislature, Feb. 20, 1869, from......April 30, 1870 Amendment to article III., section 1 of the State constitution, rehabilitating citizens disfranchised, ratified by the people......April 27, 1871 Constitution framed by a convention whi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 51: reconstruction under Johnson's policy.—the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.—defeat of equal suffrage for the District of Columbia, and for Colorado, Nebraska, and Tennessee.—fundamental conditions.— proposed trial of Jefferson Davis.—the neutrality acts. —Stockton's claim as a senator.—tributes to public men. —consolidation of the statutes.—excessive labor.— address on Johnson's Policy.—his mother's death.—his marriage.—1865-1866. (search)
29, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 468); remarks on time and reconstruction, May 2, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 428-431); letter to a committee of the District of Columbia, April 14, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 417, 418); letter to the American Antislavery Society, May, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 427). Other references by him to the condition of the South are a letter on delay in the removal of disabilities, May, 1866 (Works, vol. x. p. 461), and remarks on the interruption of the right of petition, May 24, 1866 (Works, vol. x. pp. 462, 463). Two years later he argued at length in favor of the validity and necessity of such conditions, of their perpetual force and obligation after the admission of the State, so as to be forever beyond its power to repeal, June 10, 1868; Works, vol. XII. pp. 414-438. He expressed himself, May 28, in favor of applying the condition to Arkansas. (Congressional Globe, p. 2628.) His argument did not satisfy some of his friends, particularly E. L. Pierce, who
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
n. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Nov. 21, 1864.Actg. Ensign. Green, Francis M., Transferred to regular service. See Navy Register.Mass.Mass.Mass.June 18, 1861.Actg. Master.Vincennes; Niagara; Louisiana.W. Gulf; Special Service; North Atlantic.May 24, 1866.Hon. discharged.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Apr. 2, 1864.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Sept. 3, 1866.Actg. Vol. Lieut. Green, James G., Transferred to regular service. See Navy Register.Mass.Mass.Mass.May 11, 1861.Actg. Master's Mate.Shepherd Knapp; Wyalusies, See Navy Register.Md.Mass.Mass.—--, 1861.Boatswain.Navy Yard.Philadelphia.--- Woods, Charles H., Credit. Dormile. Vt. See enlistment, Jan. 16, 1865.Mass.Mass.Mass.Feb. 28, 1865.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr.Nanbnc; James Adger.North Atlantic.May 24, 1866.Hon. discharged.Actg. 3d Asst. Engr. Woods, Henry L. R., Credit. West Roxbury.Mass.Mass.Mass.Apr. 3, 1863.Actg. Master's Mate.Primrose.Potomac Flotilla.May 12, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Apr. 7, 1864.Actg. Ensign. Worth, Jethro,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
rn in Massachusetts. Q. M. Sergeant, 46th Ohio Infantry, Dec. 16, 1861. Second Lieutenant, Mar. 12, 1863. First Lieutenant, Apr. 15, 1864. Captain, Sept. 8, 1864. Mustered out, July 22, 1865. First Lieutenant, 12th U. S. Infantry, July 28, 1866. Unassigned, Mar. 19, 1869. Honorably discharged at his own request, Aug. 13, 1870. Parsons, Foster E. Born in Massachusetts. Private, Sergeant, Commissary Sergeant and Sergeant Major, 2d Battalion, 13th U. S. Infantry, Nov. 28, 1863, to May 24, 1866. Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant, Dec. 6, 1865. Transferred to 31st U. S. Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866. Regimental Quartermaster, Mar. 31, 1867, to May 15, 1869. Transferred to 22d Infantry, May 15, 1869. Honorably discharged at his own request, Dec. 19, 1870. Patten, Henry Lyman. See General Officers. Pearsons, William Barron Chapin. Born in Vermont. Appointed from Massachusetts. Major, Additional Paymaster, U. S. Volunteers, May 28, 1864. Mustered out, Nov. 1, 186
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.50 (search)
r at the doctor's house. It is patent that this stab in the back was intended to misrepresent the intention of an honorable medical officer, who could be fair and just to a prisoner, so as to justify the vilefier's own despicable conduct. Public indignation not only spread over the whole South, but reached to such a degree in the North that the newspapers were emboldened to denounce the tortures of Jefferson Davis in scathing terms. The press to the rescue. The New York World of May 24, 1866, in an editorial under that head, says: It is no longer a matter of newspaper rumor that the treatment which Jefferson Davis has received during his incarceration in Fortress Monroe, has been such as to break down his constitution and to put him, after twelve months of protracted suffering, in imminent peril of death. Upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury the President of the United States recently ordered the post surgeon to make a careful and thorough examina