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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 2. (search)
a mere spindle of a boy, had his due proportion of harmless mischief, but as we, lived in a country abounding in hazel switches, in the virtue of which the master had great faith, Abe of course received his due allowance. This part of the boy's history is painfully vague and dim, and even after arriving at man's estate Mr. Lincoln was significantly reserved when reference was made to it. It is barely mentioned in the autobiography furnished to Fell in 1859. John Duncan, Letter, February 21, 1867 afterwards a preacher of some prominence in Kentucky, relates how he and Abe on one occasion ran a ground-hog into a crevice between two rocks, and after working vainly almost two hours to get him out, Abe ran off about a quarter of a mile to a blacksmith shop, and returned with an iron hook fastened to the end of a pole, and with this rude contrivance they virtually hooked the animal out of his retreat. Austin Gollaher of Hodgensville, claims to have saved Lincoln from drowning one
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gridley, Charles Vernon 1845-1898 (search)
Gridley, Charles Vernon 1845-1898 Naval officer; born in Logansport, Ind., in 1845. He was appointed an acting midshipman in the United States navy in 1860; was promoted to midshipman July 16, 1860; lieutenant, Feb. 21, 1867; lieutenant-commander, March 12, 1868; commander, March 10, 1882; and captain, March 4, 1897; and was assigned to the Asiatic squadron. Upon his arrival at Hong-Kong, China, he was given command of the protected cruiser Olympia, the Charles Vernon Gridley. flagship. Just before the battle of Manila Bay, on May 1, 1898, Captain Gridley took his place in the conning tower of the Olympia, with Commodore Dewey on the bridge. When the American fleet drew near to the Spanish vessels, Commodore Dewey gave the laconic order: You may fire when you are ready, Mr. Gridley, and almost immediately the battle was opened. Captain Gridley managed his ship superbly throughout the fight, and fired the broadside which destroyed the Spanish flag-ship. During the battle
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 2: influence of Christian officers. (search)
be some consolation in your bereavement to know that your son was highly esteemed by the officers and students of the college, and that this whole community unite in sorrow at his untimely death. May God in His mercy support you under this grievous trial, and give you that peace which, as it passeth all understanding, so nothing in this world can diminish or destroy it. On the death of Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, he wrote the following letter to his wife: Lexington, Virginia, February 21, 1867. My Dear Mrs. Elliott: It would be in vain for me to attempt to express my grief at your great affliction. In common with the whole country, I mourn the death of him whom for more than a quarter of a century I have admired, loved and venerated, and whose loss to the church and society, where his good offices were so important, I can never expect to see supplied. You have my deepest sympathy, and my earnest prayers are offered to Almighty God that He may be graciously pleased to
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
y members, but the previous question shut off amendments. One of these members was Mr. Blaine, who sought to put into the bill a provision admitting to representation any of the States which accepted the fourteenth amendment and established impartial suffrage. Feb. 12, 13. 1867. Congressional Globe, pp. 1182, 1213. The Senate, which began to consider the bill February 15, passed most of the night in an earnest debate, not adjourning till 3 A. M. J. S Pike in the New York Tribune, Feb. 21, 1867, gives an account of the differences between the two houses. There was even a greater indisposition than in the House to carry a measure so purely military in its features without relieving it by provisions looking towards the initiation of civil governments; but what such provisions should be, brought back an old question always fruitful in stubborn contention. The House had passed Eliot's bill for civil government in Louisiana, providing a full method, and establishing suffrage withou
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 24: (search)
Chapter 24: 1867 to 1870. letters to Sir E. Head, Hon. E. Twisleton, Sir Walter Trevelyan, the King of Saxony, G. T. Curtis, General Thayer. To Sir Edmund Head, London. Boston, February 21, 1867. my dear Head,—I am surprised to find that I sent you no answer about the meaning of El moron in the ballad of Blanca sois, Señora Mia. To be sure, I had no doubt but that it meant the horse, as soon as you gave me the suggestion of Mrs. Marshall, and I rather think that we ought both of us to feel a little mortified that we needed the lady's hint. And, to be sure, further I can say in reply to your question, that I do not remember any other case in which the name of the color is put for the horse, although I will bet a penny I ought to recollect cases in which pardo, bayo, etc., are so used. But is not Sancho's ass just as good as any horse in the world, and just as classical, and is he not called el rucio fifty times in Don Quixote? And now I am in the way of
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
y, Feb. 19, 1863; accepted, Mar. 28, 1863. Out of service, Oct. 20, 1863. Private and Sergeant, 4th Mass. Cavalry, Dec. 2, 1863, to Jan. 25, 1864. First Lieutenant, Jan. 25, 1864. Captain, Dec. 1, 1864. Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, Apr. 9, 1865. Mustered out, Nov. 14, 1865. Private and Corporal, General Mounted Sergeant and Private and Sergeant Major, 7th U. S. Cavalry, Jan. 25, 1866, to Dec. 16, 1866. First Lieutenant, July 28, 1866; accepted, Dec. 16, 1866. Regimental Adjutant, Feb. 21, 1867, to Dec. 31, 1870. Captain, Mar. 1, 1872. Major, 10th U. S. Cavalry, Apr. 8, 1892. Retired, Apr. 15, 1893, at his own request; over thirty years service (sect. 1243, Rev. Stats.). Munn, Curtis Emerson. Born in Vermont. Hospital Steward, 1st Mass. Cavalry, Dec. 21, 1861. Discharged, July 10, 1863. First Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, 27th Mass. Infantry, July 11, 1863. Mustered out, Dec. 30, 1864. Major, Surgeon, 2d Mass. Infantry, Jan. 19, 1865. Mustered out, July 14, 1865
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
stem of mortuary returns. As a teacher of his profession he served several years as assistant professor and clinical lecturer of the South Carolina medical college, and is now professor of surgery in the medical college of the State of South Carolina. For two terms he has served as president of the South Carolina medical association, with one exception the oldest in the United States, and his honors are many in connection with other professional organizations. . Dr. Buist was married February 21, 1867, to Margaret S., daughter of A. S. Johnston, of Charleston. Barnwell Rhett Burnet Barnwell Rhett Burnet, of Charleston, a veteran of the Fourth cavalry regiment, is a native South Carolinian, his life beginning in the old colonial town of Beaufort, but most of his life has been passed in the city of Charleston. There his education was begun, but, as in the case of many other spirited young men of that epoch, it was finished in the stern school of battle. Leaving his studies at