hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Matching Documents
The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.
Document | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 7: Prisons and Hospitals. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
View all matching documents... |
Browsing named entities in Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing). You can also browse the collection for October, 1895 AD or search for October, 1895 AD in all documents.
Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Navigation acts. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Scovel , Sylvester 1869 - (search)
Scovel, Sylvester 1869-
Journalist; born in Denny Station, Pa., July 29, 1869; graduated at the Michigan Military Academy in 1887.
He went to Cuba as war correspondent for the Pittsburg Dispatch and the New York Herald in October, 1895; was imprisoned in Havana in January, 1896, but escaped.
He was then engaged by the New York World; lived with the insurgents; passed through the Spanish police and military lines thirty times without detection, but was finally captured, Feb. 7, 1897, and imprisoned in Sancti Spiritus, Cuba.
Later he was set at liberty through the negotiations of the United States government.
He served afterwards as correspondent for the New York World in the Graeco-Turkish War, in Spain, in the Klondike, in Havana prior to the destruction of the Maine, and then with the United States navy and army till the close of the American-Spanish War.