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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 24: the storming of Monterey, 1846. (search)
in a cloud of smoke. McClung, meeting a company which formerly had been under his command, dashed on, followed by Captain Willis. Anticipating General Quitman, Colonel Davis, about the same time, gave the order to charge. With wild desperation his men followed him. The escalade was made with the fury of a tempest, the men flinging themselves upon the guns of the enemy. Sword in hand, McClung has sprung over the ditch. After him dashes Davis, cheering on the Mississippians, and then Campbell with his Tennesseeans and others, brothers in the fight and rivals for its honors. Then was wild work. The assault was irresistible. The Mexicans, terror-stricken, fled like an Alpine village from the avalanche, and, taking position in a strong fortified building, some seventy-five yards in the rear, opened a heavy fire of musketry. But, like their mighty river, nothing could stay the Mississippians; they are after the Mexicans. Davis and McClung are simultaneously masters of the forti
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 25: the storming of Monterey-report of Mr. Davis. (search)
follow him they will be sure to succeed, and they think so, too, with some reason, for during the conflict we attacked, and several times took, places and fortifications from which regular troops, greatly outnumbering us, had been three times repulsed by the Mexicans with considerable loss of life. I never wish to be commanded by a truer soldier than Colonel Davis. A short extract is subjoined from the report of General Taylor on the battle of Monterey: I desire also to notice Generals Hamer and Quitman, commanding brigades in General Butler's division; Lieutenant-Colonel Garland and Wilson, commanding brigades in General Twigg's division; Colonels Mitchell, Campbell, Davis, and Wood, commanding the Ohio, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Second Texas Regiments respectively; and Senior Majors Allen and Abercrombie, commanding Third, Fourth, and First Regiments of infantry, all of whom served under my eye and conducted their commands with coolness and gallantry against the enemy.
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 26: after the battle of Monterey. (search)
n Saltillo. Considerable excitement and numerous rumors in camp this night. Friday, December 18th: Remained in camp near Montmorelles, all this day. General Twigg's division returned to Monterey, General Taylor and staff accompanying him. General Quitman made chief of the division proceeding on to Victoria. Mississippi and Georgia regiments, with Baltimore battalion, forming two brigades, under Colonel Jackson, acting brigadier-general. Two Tennessee regiments, first brigade, under Colonel Campbell, acting brigadier-general. December 19th: Reached camp Novales last night. Extremely cold, and cool all this day; almost a frost this evening. Lancers seen hovering near the camp — supposed to be a body of 400 or 500. Not a Mexican soldier have I seen since leaving Monterey. Monday, January 4th: Colonel J. Davis rejoined this regiment, and this day assumed the command. Mr. Davis's own account is here again quoted: The projected campaign against the capital of Mexico
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 39: Cabinet life. (search)
Once Mr. Guthrie sat down in one of the trumpery chairs in our furnished house, and being very tired, dropped asleep. He was a very large man and proved too much for the chair, so it gave way with a crack which wakened him. He rose deliberately, examined the chair for some minutes, then looked at me quizzically, and said, You know a man is heavier when he is asleep, do you suppose it possible I could have been asleep? He lived a few doors from us, and Mr. Cushing boarded not far off. Mr. Campbell lived more in the centre of the city, and Governor Marcy only a few squares from the Executive Mansion. Mr. Dobbin, the Secretary of the Navy, was also quite near, so that the Executive family of Mr. Pierce could be summoned to a meeting in an hour or less time. From this house, which had been taken by Mr. Benjamin for the winter, we moved in a few months to one round the corner on Thirteenth Street, and there lived a year. There our only child sickened, and after several weeks of p
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 42: summer outing. (search)
is now living one military man of prominent distinction in the public eye of England and the United States. I mean Sir Colin Campbell, now Lord Clyde, of Clydesdale. He deserves the distinction he enjoys, for he has redeemed the British flag on theell on the fields of Marston Moor and Naseby; never Sarsfield on the banks of the Boyne. The glories and honors of Sir Colin Campbell are the glories of the British race and of the races of Great Britain and Ireland from whom we are descended. But what gained Sir Colin Campbell the opportunity to achieve those glorious results in India? Remember that, and let us see what it was. On one of those bloody battles fought by the British before the Fortress of Sebastopol — in the midst of the perilHow all England rang with the glory of that achievement! How the general voice of England placed upon the brows of Sir Colin Campbell the laurels of the future mastership of victory for the arms of England! And well they might do so. But who origin
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 11: (search)
as much as the Administration can bear. Judge Campbell adds: I concurred in the conclusion thn, on the same day, to the commissioners. Judge Campbell tells us that Crawford was slow to consente of Seward to be reduced to writing, with Judge Campbell's personal assurance of its genuineness an take all the risks of sunshine.—Letter of Judge Campbell to Colonel Munford, as above. This writtenesent. Of the result of these interviews, Judge Campbell states: The last was full and satisfac dispatch of Governor Pickens was taken by Judge Campbell to Seward, who appointed the ensuing Mondaanswer. At that interview Seward informed Judge Campbell that the President was concerned about thet the fort was to be forthwith evacuated. Judge Campbell in his account of the interview, says: I aas addressed to Seward upon the subject by Judge Campbell, in behalf of the commissioners, again ask four days before Seward's assurance given Judge Campbell—after conference with the President—that t[10 more...
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 13: (search)
onfederate commissioners in Washington? He says we were expressly notified that nothing more would on that occasion be attempted—the words in italics themselves constituting a very significant though unobtrusive and innocent-looking limitation. But we had been just as expressly notified, long before, that the garrison would be withdrawn. It would be as easy to violate the one pledge as it had been to break the other. Moreover, the so-called notification was a mere memorandum, without date, signature, or authentication of any kind, sent to Governor Pickens, not by an accredited agent, but by a subordinate employee of the State Department. Like the oral and written pledges of Seward, given through Judge Campbell, it seemed to be carefully and purposedly divested of every attribute that could make it binding and valid, in case its authors should see fit to repudiate it. It was as empty and worthless as the complaint against the Confederate government based upon it is disingenuous
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Appendix E (search)
Of such men was Jefferson Davis. There is now living one military man of prominent distinction in the public eye of England and the United States—I mean Sir Colin Campbell, now Lord Clyde of Clydesdale. He deserves the distinction he enjoys, for he has redeemed the British flag on the ensanguined, burning plains of India.s and honors of Sir Campbell are the glories of the British race, and the races of Great Britain and Ireland, from whom we are descended. But what gained Sir Colin Campbell the opportunity to achieve those glorious results in India? Remember that, and let us see what it was. On one of those bloody battles fought by the Britishof the Russian cavalry and repelling it. How all England rang with the glory of that achievement! How the general voice of England placed upon the brows of Sir Colin Campbell the laurels of the future mastership of victory for the arms of England! And well they might do so. But who originated that movement; who set the example o
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
late, and shielding the paper from the adjoining lines. This series of addresses forms a mechanical record on which changes may be made as they become necessary. This patent was reissued January 30, 1866, and was extended to the year 1872. Campbell, January 20, 1863. The addresses are set up in parallel columns, and are secured in a common chase. The machine is supported over the chase by end-pieces, and is automatically advanced after each depression of the platen. Resting upon ways whng held above the form, the platen is depressed by a treadle and the impression obtained. On releasing the treadle the spring raises the platen, and the pawl turns the cylinder one tooth, bringing the next name in series beneath the platen. Campbell, January 17, 1860, patented a machine for printing addresses on the margins of newspapers, simultaneously with the printing of the newspapers, by means of cells or boxes, containing the addresses set up in type and conveyed to the form by means
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
de. After the sheet is punctured, it is laid on so that the points pass through the same holes. Perfecting-presses sometimes use points to perforate the printed sheets, and the point-holes serve as guides for feeding to a folding-machine. Campbell's single-cylinder book-press is provided with electric points, and the electric circuit must be completed by bringing the perforations over the needles before the feeding can go on. 17. (Harness.) A short strap stitched to a wide one for tho strata; these, like two wedges, overlap to form a single stratum of uniform thickness throughout. There is one inking apparatus on each side of the cylinder. As many as fourteen distributing and inking rollers may be used with this press. Campbell press. A large number of small job-presses have been built by American mechanics, and are capable of doing excellent work at very high speed. Among these may be mentioned the Gordon, Globe, Liberty, Universal, Cincinnati, and others, adapte
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