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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), The War's Carnival of fraud. (search)
ecollection, interfered with my official labors. This adroit and epicurean criminal employed the best counsel at our bar, and enjoyed all the immunity from annoyance, after his release from Fort Lafayette, that one so circumstanced could expect. But that there were thorns in his bed of roses is beyond a doubt. In due time, he was held in one hundred and fifty thousand dollars bail in a civil suit, and, after a three weeks session with me, the grand jury, under the lead of the late James W. Beekman, brought in forty-eight bills of indictment against him. Failing to get the required security, he lay two months in the House of Detention, after which his bail was reduced, and he was liberated from confinement. I found so many obstacles to getting him to trial that, finally, the Secretary caused a resolution of inquiry to be introduced in the Senate by Mr. Wilson, which settled the business. The case was peremptorily moved on, and that venerated jurist, Judge Samuel Nelson, turned a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), De Lancey, Edward Floyd, 1821- (search)
De Lancey, Edward Floyd, 1821- Historian; born at Mamaroneck, N. Y., April 3, 1821; graduated at Hobart College in 1843; is a member and officer of many historical organizations, and the author of biographies of James De Lancey, James W. Beekman, William Allen; Documentary history of New York; Capture of Fort Washington, and many other historical works.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 77 (search)
rd Warren, who nominated Mr. Wm. F. Havemeyer as Chairman of the meeting. The following gentlemen acted as Vice Presidents: Jno. A. Stevens, R. A. Witthaus, R. M. Blatchford, Elijah F. Purdy, Samuel B. Ruggles, James Owen, S. B. chittenden, Thos, C. Smith, August. F. Schwab, Wm. Lyell, Chas. P. Daly, W. H. Hays, Samuel D. Babcock, A. V. Stout, Geo. R. Jackson, Jno. T. Agnew, Francis Hall, Thos. A. Emmett, Wm. Allen Butler, Edwin Hoyt, Jno. E. Devlin, James W. Beekman, P. M. Wetmore, Geo. S. Coe, N. Knight, Jno. A. C. Gray, Cyrus Curtiss, Henry A. Smythe, David Thompson, T. H. Faile, Isaac Bell, Jr., Dan. P. Ingraham, W. M. Vermilye, J. L. Aspinwall, Richard Schell, Fred. Lawrence, J. G. Vassar, J. G. Pierson, John H. Swift, Allan Cummings, Geo. B. DeForest, W. C. Alexander, Augt. Weisman, H. D. Aldrich, R. L. Kennedy, R. Mortimer, Horatio Allen, Norman White, Geo. T. Hope, Ogden Haggerty, John Wadswort