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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chattanooga , abandonment of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chickamauga , battle of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crittenden , Thomas Leonidas 1815 - (search)
Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas 1815-
Military officer; second son of John J. Crittenden; born in Russellville, Ky., May 15, 1815; studied law with his father, and became commonwealth's attorney in 1842.
He served under General Taylor in the war against Mexico, and when the latter became President of the United States he sent Crittenden to Liverpool as United States consul.
He returned in 1853, and in September, 1861, was made a brigadier-general and assigned a command under General Buell.
For gallantry in the battle of Shiloh he was promoted to major-general of volunteers and assigned a division in the Army of the Tennessee.
He afterwards commanded the left wing of the Army of the Ohio under General Buell.
Then he served under Rosecrans, taking part in the battles at Stone River and Chickamauga.
His corps was among the routed of the army in the last-named battle.
He commanded a division of the 9th Corps in the campaign against Richmond in 1864.
In March, 1865, he was brevett
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Earle , Pliny , 1762 -1832 (search)
Earle, Pliny, 1762-1832
Inventor; born in Leicester, Mass., Dec. 17, 1762; became connected with Edward Snow in 1785 in the manufacture of machine and hand cards for carding wool and cotton.
Mr. Earle had first made them by hand, but afterwards by a machine of his own invention.
Oliver Evans (q. v.)had already invented a machine for making card-teeth, which produced 300 a minute.
In 1784 Mr. Crittenden, of New Haven, Conn., invented a machine which produced 86,000 cardteeth, cut and bent, in an hour.
These card-teeth were put up in bags and distributed among families, in which the women and children stuck them in the leather.
Leicester was the chief seat of this industry, and to that place Samuel Slater (q. v.)of Rhode Island, went for card clothing for the machines in his cotton-mill.
Hearing that Pliny Earle was an expert card-maker, he went to him and told him what he wanted.
Mr. Earle invented a machine for pricking the holes in the leather—a tedious process by hand —a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Filibuster, (search)
Filibuster,
Originally a freebooter; subsequently applied to one who delayed legislation by dilatory motions or similar artifices.
Narcisco Lopez with an expedition of armed men sailed from New Orleans, Aug. 3, 1851, and landed near Havana on the 11th.
Unable to bring about a rise of the people he was obliged to surrender and on Sept. 1, 1851, was garroted at Havana.
Colonel Crittenden, who was associated with Lopez, was also captured and with fifty others was shot at Havana, Aug. 16, 1851.
William Walker led a filibustering expedition into Lower California in 1853, but was obliged to retreat and surrendered to the United States authorities of Santiago.
He was tried under the neutrality laws and acquitted May 15, 1854.
The next year Walker was invited to Nicaragua by one of the local factions.
He landed on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, May 4, 1855, and defeated the Nicaraguans in a battle at Virgin Bay, Sept. 1, 1855.
Walker forced his election as President of Nicaragua
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoover's Gap , battle at. (search)
Hoover's Gap, battle at.
The 14th Army Corps under General Thomas, the 20th Corps under General McCook, and the 21st Corps under General Crittenden, of the National Army of the Cumberland, attacked the Confederate Army of the Tennessee at Hoover's Gap, Tenn., June 24, 1863.
Thomas succeeded in driving the Confederates from Hoover's Gap, and McCook secured possession of Liberty Gap. General Bragg, not feeling strong enough to meet Rosecrans in battle, retreated across the Tennessee River to Chattanooga.
The campaign, in which this engagement was one of several, lasted from June 23 to July 7; resulted in putting the Army of the Cumberland in control of the country from Murfreesboro to Bridgeport; and is known officially as the Tullahoma campaign.
See Bragg, Braxton; Rosecrans, William Starke.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)