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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Introduction: the spirit of nationality (search)
New Englander, George William Curtis, followed him. One who was present reports that his tribute to Confederate valor and the purity of Confederate motives was all that any Southerner could have desired, and brought a genuine glow of pleasure over Longstreet's Bret Harte One of the most American of American authors, the novelist Francis Bret Harte is represented in this volume by three poems that reveal the lighter vein of his versifying. The Aged stranger is purposely humorous. John Burns of Gettysburg is half-humorous. A Second review of the Grand Army has touches of wit in spite of its solemn subject. Harte was born in Albany, New York, in 1839. The gold-fever caught him at fifteen; he wandered to California, where he made more at school-teaching than at gold-digging. At eighteen, he entered newspaper life as a typesetter, and soon worked up to the position of editor-in-chief of the Weekly Californian. From 1864 to 1867, while secretary of the United States Mint in Sa
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 9: Poetry and Eloquence. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 9: Gettysburg: the high-water mark of the war (search)
f Meade and Lee! James Jeffrey Roche. John Burns of Gettysburg To do and dare, and die a Have you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg? No? Ah, well: Brief is the glo as these Were strange to a practical man like Burns, Who minded only his own concerns, Troubled noVolunteers, in Battles and leaders describes John Burns' action in the ranks of that regiment: ‘It mged the ground about us as close as we could. Burns got behind a tree and surprised us all by not hen at the rifle his right hand bore; John Burns: the subject of Bret Harte's poem. These lf-humorous poem. According to common report, Burns was seventy years old when the battle was foug Lee's troops entered the place in June, 1863, Burns asserted his authority in opposition to that o And what was the value he set on those; While Burns, unmindful of jeer and scoff, Stood there pick Broke at the final charge and ran. At which John Burns — a practical man- Shouldered his rifle, unb[9 more...]<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burns, John, 1793-1872 (search)
Burns, John, 1793-1872 Military officer; born in Burlington, N. J., Sept. 5, 1793; served in the War of 1812-15, taking part in the engagements at Plattsburg, Queenston, and Lund's Lane. He endeavored to enlist for the Mexican War, but being rejected on account of his age went with the army as a teamster. In 1863, when the Confederate scouts entered Gettysburg, he joined a party to oppose them, but was turned back by the National cavalry. He took an active part in the subsequent battle of Gettysburg, and when the report of his participation reached the Northern States it aroused much interest and he was hailed as the hero of Gettysburg. He died in Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 7, 1872.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schley, Winfield Scott 1839- (search)
M., much of the time under fire, they never flagged for a moment, and were apparently undisturbed by the storm of projectiles passing ahead, astern, and over the ship. Fourteenth. The result of the engagement was the destruction of the Spanish squadron and the capture of the admiral and some 1,300 to 1,500 prisoners, with the loss of several hundred killed, estimated by Admiral Cervera at 600 men. Fifteenth. The casualties on board this ship were: G. H. Ellis, chief yeoman, killed; J. Burns, fireman, first-class, severely wounded. The marks and scars show that the ship was struck about twenty-five times, and she bears in all forty-one scars as the result of her participation in the great victory of your force on July 3, 1898. The speed-cone halyards were shot away, and nearly all the signal halyards. The ensign at the main was so shattered that in hauling it down at the close of the action it fell in pieces. Sixteenth. I congratulate you most sincerely upon this great v
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Socialism, (search)
rial socialists at EisenachOct., 1872 Universal socialistic congress opens at GhentSept. 9, 1877 Workingmen's party in the United States reorganized as The socialistic labor party Jan., 1878 Henry George publishes his work entitled Progress and poverty 1879 Social Democratic federation organized in England, favoring Co-operative communism, international republicanism, and atheistic humanism 1881 Leading principles of state socialism of Bismarck announced in an imperial message to the German ReichstagNov., 1881 Great mass-meeting held in Cooper Union, New York City, to honor the memory of Karl Marx (died March 14, 1883）March 19, 1883 William Morris, poet, author of the Earthly paradise, H. M. Hyndman, H. H. Champion, and John Burns, become leaders of the Socialistic League, formed1886 Bellamy's Looking backward published.1888 Quite a large number of clubs were organized in various parts of the country soon after the publication of Mr. Bellamy's book, but few survived in 190
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
. 13, 1894 Secretary Carlisle offers for sale $50,000,000 of United States 5-per-cent. tenyear bonds......Nov. 13, 1894 [Awarded to the Stewart syndicate of New York City, Nov. 26.] Dr. James McCosh, ex-president of Princeton College, dies in Princeton, N. J., aged eighty-three......Nov. 16, 1894 New treaty with Japan signed at Washington......Nov. 23, 1894 President remits the unexpired portion of Brigadier-General Swaim's sentence (see February, 1885)......Dec. 1, 1894 John Burns, the English labor leader and member of Parliament, arrives at New York......Dec. 1, 1894 [Returned to England, Jan. 3, 1895.] Third session convenes......Dec. 3, 1894 Emigrant convention with China ratified......Dec. 7, 1894 Treaty between the United States and Japan proclaimed......Dec. 9, 1894 President Cleveland issues an order placing in the classified civil service the internal-revenue force......Dec. 12, 1894 Eugene V. Debs sentenced to six months imprisonment, a
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 129 (search)
s Fayette Dr. Bassett Fayette T. Greathouse Fayette Chas. T. Smith Fayette N. Simons Ford Ed. Gill Ford A. D. Duff Franklin B. F. Pope Franklin W. B. Kelly Franklin A. Perry Fulton J. H. Philsob Fulton E. D. Halm Knox J. M. Nicholson Knox James Dethridge Knox E. Elsworth Knox D. H. Morgan Lawrence E. D. Norton Logan A. M. Miller Logan P. J. Hously Macoupin Dr. T. M. Hone Madison H. K. S. O'Melveny Marion S. R. Carigan Marion John Burns Marshall P. M. Janney Marshall C. M. Baker Marshall R. Smithson Marshall J. R. Taggart Marshall J. Haringhorst Mason J. S. Chamberlain Mason J. W. Mathews McDon'h J. C. Thompson McDon'h Thos. A. Masteve McDon'h Wm. H. Neece McDon'h R. Caswell McLean J. C. Springer McLean T. Alexander Putnam W. H. G. Burney Putnam H. B. Kays Putnam E. S. Wilson Richland J. W. Barrett Sangamon W. T. Barrett Sangamon Jacob Epler Sangamon B. B. Piper
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 13: Whittier (search)
Of all other books the best. One evening the district school teacher, Joshua Coffin, brought to the house a volume of Burns, and read from it to the family. This reading was a revelation to the boy of fourteen, who eagerly sought permission to ch were to occupy his mind from that time on, and marked an epoch in the intellectual development of his boyhood. It was Burns, as he confessed many years later, who made him see through all familiar things The romance underlying; The joys and griDuring the next two years Whittier published in the Haverhill Gazette nearly one hundred poems, besides prose articles on Burns, War, and Temperance. In 1828, a volume to be entitled The poems of Adrian was projected, but this venture was abandoneding. This poem has often been compared with The Cotter's Saturday night and it means to the American all and more than Burns's famous poem means to the Scotsman. There is also much aptitude in a comparison with Crabbe, but it has qualities of wi
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 2: poets of the Civil War I (search)
with his Hooker's across; and Chancellorsville, which called forth so many Confederate poems See also Book III, Chap. III. on the death of Stonewall Jackson, led George Parsons Lathrop to write his dashing ballad, Keenan's charge. Perhaps it was again because poets sing best in defeat that no Union poem on Gettysburg quite equals Will Henry Thompson's later High tide (1888). Stedman, however, made a ringing ballad, Gettysburg, and Bret Harte preserved a real episode of the day in his John Burns of Gettysburg. Best of all, of course, was Lincoln's famous address at the battle-field on 19 November, 1863, which lacks nothing of poetry but its outer forms. As Grant rose to fame the poets kept pace with his deeds: Melville with Running the Batteries and Boker with Before Vicksburg dealt with the struggle to open the Mississippi. Lookout Mountain was commemorated by Boker—The battle of Lookout Mountain—and William Dean Howells—The battle in the clouds. Two poems this year honoured<
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5: dialect writers (search)
to Russell's genius and to their indebtedness to him. It is noteworthy also that the first marble bust that the State of Mississippi has placed in her Hall of Fame is that of Irwin Russell. Russell's greatest poem is Christmas night in the quarters (1878). In its fidelity to the humble life that it seeks to portray, in the simplicity of its style, the genuineness of its feeling, the distinctness of its pictures, and the sympathy that inspires it, Christmas night belongs in the class with Burns's Cotter's Saturday night and Whittier's Snow-Bound. Burs, said Russell, is my idol. He seems to me the greatest man that God ever created, beside whom all other poets are utterly insignificant. This poem differs from the works hitherto considered in three important respects: the negro is the central character, the poem being written not to exploit him but to portray him; the dialect, both in its grammar and its rhetoric, is an improvement on everything that had preceded it; and the mingl
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