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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
in each month from October, 1864, to April, 1865. The aggregates in these six months were four thousand and fifty-four admitted, of whom two thousand three hundred and ninety-seven died, and one thousand six hundred and fifty-seven remained. Mrs. Johnston came North in the summer of 1865, to visit her daughter, who had been placed at a school in Connecticut by the kindness of some of the officers she had befriended in prison; transportation having been given her by Generals Schofield and Carter, who testified to the services she had rendered our prisoners, and that she was entitled to the gratitude of the Government and all loyal citizens. Emily E. Parsons.Rev. J. G. Forman. Her birth and education her preparation for service in the hospitals Receives instruction in the care of the sick, dressing wounds, preparations of diet, etc service at Fort Schlyler Hospital Mrs. General Fremont secures her services for St. Louis condition of St. Louis and the other river ci
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 35: (search)
. It is remarkable that in this hard-fought battle the Confederates used no artillery whatever; Gen. Hood's explanation being that he was restrained from using that terrible arm on account of the women and children remaining in the town. Victory had been purchased at the price of a terrible slaughter. Hood's total loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners was 4,500. Among the killed was Maj.-Gen. P. R. Cleburne, Brig.-Gens. John Adams, Strahl and Granbury; while Maj.-Gen. Brown, Brig.- Gens. Carter, Manigault, Quarles, Cockrell, and Scott were wounded, and Brig.-Gen. Gordon captured. Battle of Nashville. The next morning Gen. Hood advanced upon Nashville, where Schofield had retreated, and where Thomas lay with his main force. He laid siege to the town on the 2d December, closely investing it for a fortnight. The opinion long prevailed in the Confederacy that in this pause and the operations of siege, Hood made the cardinal mistake of his campaign; and that if he had taken a
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Nims' Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
brush: but they soon learned from the bullets' whiz that they had better be moving, and they did. Captain Russell. On another occasion Sergeant Lincoln and Privates Carter and Wilkins were on picket duty on the Port Hudson Road. Lincoln and Carter were fired on, their horses killed and Carter badly wounded. He dragged himself Carter were fired on, their horses killed and Carter badly wounded. He dragged himself through the woods to a house where he was put into a wagon and brought to camp. Lincoln was stripped of his equipments and let go. The records during this period show that a soldier's life meant good hard work—even if fighting was not going on. Battery drill, gun drill, marching drill—all these filled the days and brought the Carter badly wounded. He dragged himself through the woods to a house where he was put into a wagon and brought to camp. Lincoln was stripped of his equipments and let go. The records during this period show that a soldier's life meant good hard work—even if fighting was not going on. Battery drill, gun drill, marching drill—all these filled the days and brought the battery to the highest degree of efficiency. One drill consisted of flying movements, dismounting and mounting guns and carriages, slinging guns under the limber, etc., and was nicknamed by the boys break-neck drill. Accidents were rare, however. Captain Nims invented new signals for the use of his men so that the enemy might
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Roster of Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
Bushman, Leander,21Hadley, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Drowned, Dec. 18, 1864, from str. N. America. Butler, Levi T.,24Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Feb. 15, 1864, re-enlistment. Butler, Levi T.,26Boston, Ma.Feb. 16, 1864Transferred June 21, 1864, to Navy. Buxton, Richard F.,21Lunenburg, Ma.Dec. 31, 1863July 18, 1865, expiration of service. Call, Levi E.,20Colrain, Ma.Sept. 3, 1864June 11, 1865, expiration of service. Carpenter, Francis L.,21Taunton, Ma.Dec. 12, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Carter, John F.,24Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Jan. 16, 1864, disability. Carroll, John, Jr.,21Barnstable, Ma.Sept. 2, 1864June 11, 1865, expiration of service. Carney, Joseph,26Reading, Ma.Dec. 9, 1863Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Caswell, Joseph L.,23Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Chadbourne, Bradford H.,38Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Chase, Stephen J.,44Boston, Ma.Jan. 8, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Second
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 3: Apprenticeship.—1818-1825. (search)
ur life, is my ardent prayer. . . . Will you be so kind as to bring on your pieces that you have written for me to see? . . . Adieu, my dear, for I am tired. Your affectionate Mother, Frances M. Garrison. Lloyd embarked from Boston for Baltimore on June 21, 1823. He had never been in Boston before, and it is evident from the letter which he wrote to his master from Baltimore that he did not enjoy his day's experience there: You wished me to call at No. 1, Cornhill, and ask Mr. Carter Ms. to E. W. Allen, July 7, 1823. for some more leads for the paper. This I intended to have done: but, after wandering about 2 or 3 hours, and enquiring of 20 different persons, (none of whom, however, would take the trouble to show me,) I was forced to give up in despair. Being totally unacquainted with Boston, and never there before, I got lost several times in my travels—so that all was perplexity. Indeed, I felt truly homesick in being one short day in Boston.—I was seasick but
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 7: books for children (search)
as that far more books were written for boys than for girls. Simple, lively books for girls are much needed, wrote Miss Alcott in her journal; and seemed to fear that her liveliness was more suitable for the youthful male. Women apparently combated more than men the idea that mere entertainment was harmless. But the respectable of the sterner sex so shared it at first that it was seized upon only by the concoctors of lurid melodrama, shameless persons who hid under such pseudonyms as Nick Carter. A rage for these dime dreadfuls swept the country, and perhaps it was the tardy desire not to leave all the good tunes to the devil which energized the next group of writers for boys. Some of them at any rate were ministers, and the books of others were still too much under the compulsion of preaching, even if by story rather than by precept. Chief among these writers (who wrote solely for children) were Elijah Kellogg His sounding declamatory piece Spartacus to the Gladiators was lo
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.), Index (search)
Primer, 396 New England review, the, 45 New England's annoyances, 148 New England's Rareties, 149 New England tragedies, the, 37, 39 New essays towards a critical method, 63 n., 66 n. News and Courier (Charleston), 325 News letter, 387 New South, the, 322 New world, the, 187 New year's day, 1848, 266 n. New Yorker, 187, 191 New York literary Gazette, the, 167 New York Review and Athenaeum Magazine, The, 58, 167 Nicholson, Meredith, 364 n. Nick Carter, 403 Nietzsche, 22 Nights with Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the old plantation, 350, 354 n., 358 Niles, H., 188 Nilsson, Christine, 335 Noah, M. M., 183 Noel, Roden, 271 Norfolk landmark, the, 318 Norris, Frank, 390 North American review, the, 33-34, 109, 111, 116, 117, 125, 135, 135 n., 140, 163, 164, 165, 169, 209, 247, 401, 406 Norton, Andrews, 197, 207, 208, 209-211 Norton, Charles Eliot, 39, 197, 247, 401 Norton, Rev., John, 209 Norwood or villa
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Lydia Maria child. (search)
wn book are not so amusing as the unintentional comedy of his attempt at a Ladies' sewing circle, which illustrates American life in the History of woman. The fair laborers sit about a small round table, with a smirk of mistimed levity on their faces, and one feels an irresistible impulse to insert in their very curly hair the twisted papers employed in the game of Genteel lady, always Genteel, in the Girl's own book. The History of woman appeared in 1832, as one of a series projected by Carter & Hendee, of which Mrs. Child was to be the editor, but which was interrupted at the fifth volume by the failure of the publishers. She compiled for this the Biographies of good wives, the Memoirs of Madame De Stael and Madame Roland, those of Lady Russell and Madame Guion, and the two volumes of Woman. All these aimed at a popular, not a profound, treatment. She was, perhaps, too good a compiler, showing in such work the traits of her brother's mind, and carefully excluding all those ai
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 4: College Life.—September, 1826, to September, 1830.—age, 15-19. (search)
Some of his class, in their Senior year, formed a private society for mutual improvement, keeping even its existence a secret, and calling it The Nine, from their number. They were Hopkinson, Stearns, Sumner, Browne, Warren, Worcester, Appleton, Carter, and McBurney. They met in each other's rooms, read essays, and each in turn made up a record, generally of an amusing kind, to be read at the next meeting. On Nov. 2, 1829, Sumner read, in 22 Holworthy, Hopkinson's and Carter's room. an essCarter's room. an essay on the English Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, which he had just published in a newspaper, with the signature of Amicus. Independent Chronicle and Boston Patriot, Oct. 29, 31. It is a historical account of their origin and methods of administration and instruction. On the evening of March 1, 1830, he read the record of the previous meeting, which he had prepared. It gives a humorous account of a bore, who, by his presence, had unconsciously obstructed for a while a meeting of The
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 6: Law School.—September, 1831, to December, 1833.—Age, 20-22. (search)
I saw tears steal from his eyes. My mother is still dejected and comfortless. . . . You have referred to my health, &c. I never was better; in fact, I never was unwell. I've always been well. Who can have spoken to you of me such flattering words, as should imply that I was hurting my health with study? Contra, I reprove myself for lack of study. I am well-determined, though, that, if health is continued to me, lack of study shall not be laid to my charge. Study is the talisman. Carter is trying to start a school in Boston. Browne is well. He does not love the law. He is a keen, direct, and close debater. From your true friend, Chas. Sumner. To Charlemagne Tower. Boston, Sunday, July 29, 1832. my dear friend,—This is vacation,—if such time there can be to one who has doubled his twenty-first year, and is moderately aware of the duties of manhood,—and I am at home. I have not stirred within sight of the Boston boundary-line since I came into town, and probably<
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