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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 16: Secession of Virginia and North Carolina declared.--seizure of Harper's Ferry and Gosport Navy Yard.--the first troops in Washington for its defense. (search)
--George H. Hill, Francis P. Dewees, Wm. Ramsey Potts, Thomas Johnson, Nelson T. Major, Isaac E. Severn, Edward L. Severn, Thomas Jones, George Meyer, J. C. Weaver, John Engle, Charles P. Potts, Charles P. Loeser, H. K. Downing, William H. Hardell, J. B. Brandt, Charles Slingluff, Theodore F. Patterson, Charles Evans, Charles Hause, Francis Hause, D. B. Brown, John Christian, Albert G. Whitfield, William Bates, Oliver C. Bosbyshell, Robert F. Potter, A. H. Titus, Joseph Reed, Joel H. Betz, John Curry, Robert Smith, Augustus Reese, Hugh Stevenson. H. H. Hill, Eli Williams, Benjamin Christian, Thomas Petherick, Jr., Louis T. Snyder, Edwin J. Shippen. Richard M. Hodgson, William W. Clemens, Curtus C. Pollock, William Auman, William Riley, Edward T. Leib, Daniel Moser, William Brown, Edward Nagle, Godfrey Leonard, G. W. Bratton, William Heffner, Victor Wernert, Charles A. Glenn, William Spence, Patrick Hanley, William J. Feger, William Lesher, D. C. Pott, Alba C. Thompson, Daniel Christia
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 78 (search)
r not surrendering at first was that he would be charged with cowardice by the rebels, had he acted differently; but the true reason was he owned the boat and a part of the negro crew. The captain's name, which deserves to be handed down to posterity with execration for his inhumanity and treason, is Brock, from Connecticut. He has been residing here for thirty years, and has accumulated a large fortune. He owns about one hundred negroes, besides plantations, etc. The Engineer's name is John Curry, from the North. Henry G. Limgrene, a surgeon in the confederate regular army, and J. S. Driggs, Esq., a citizen in Jacksonville, Florida, from Long Island, New-York, were among the prisoners taken. Mr. Driggs is a Union man and was obliged to go on board the steamboat, the order being given for all citizens to leave the town. He has taken the oath of allegiance, and intends going North by the first steamer. Ex-Senator D. L. Yulee, one of the most prominent men in Florida, escaped by a
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4: (search)
division, army of Northern Virginia, July 23d. Vol. XII, Part 2—（547) Assignment as above, August, 1862. （815) Roll of honor, second battle of Manassas: Corp. R. Murphy, Company A; Private James Jennings, Company I. Vol. XIX, Part—（804) In Wilcox's brigade, commanded by Col. Alfred Cumming, army of Northern Virginia, Maryland campaign. （812) 12 killed and 63 wounded, Maryland campaign. （1056) Roll of honor, battle of Sharpsburg, September 17th: Corp. Davis Tucker, Company A; Private John Curry, Company C; Sergt. T. S. Ryan, Company E; Fifth Sergt. James Castello Killed in action., Company G; Private J. Herbert Killed in action., Company H; Private O. M. Harris Killed in action., Company K; Sergt. G. T. L. Robinson, Company B; Sergt. C. F. Brown, Company D; Corp. J. R. Searcy, Company F; Private James Ryan, Company I. Vol. Xxi—（539, 610, 1070) In Wilcox's brigade, First corps, i wounded at the battle of Fredericksburg. No. 39—（790) Assignment as abo
The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Seamer scarce at Buffalo, N. Y. (search)
Hustings Court, April 9th. --Present: Aldermen Sanxay, Bray, Lipscombe, Sadler, Regnault and Anderson. The case of Wm. J. Cummings, charged with bigamy, was continued until Thursday, and rules were a warded against his witnesses for non-attendance. The Court ordered rules to be awarded against John Curry, Philip Lambert and others, witnesses against two parties, named Bloomer, charged with a felonious assault. Frederick Fromer and Jas. Rogers, aliens took the oath of allegiance to the U. States, and were admitted to citizenship. Moses McDevitt, indicted for misdemeanor, was tried and acquitted by a jury. The specific charge was receiving a lot of rope knowing the same to have been stolen.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Not gone into. (search)
Not gone into. --Geo. and Beverly Bloomer, who stand charged with making an extensive hole in John Curry's skull, on Cary street, on the 18th of March last, were to have been examined before the Hustings Court yesterday; but the witnesses not appearing, rules were awarded against them, and the case was continued till next term.
The Daily Dispatch: June 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Inspector General's office, Headq'hs, Richmond, June 5th, 1861 (search)
Grand larceny. --Fontaine Rowe, the hero of a dozen disorderly proceedings, and an active participant in the riot at Solitude, ending in the breaking of John Curry's skull, was brought before the Mayor on yesterday, charged with exerting his talents in a new field — that of discovery. He had found and appropriated to his own use $32 in bank notes and $8 in coin, belonging to Antonio Silva.--The proof showed that the money was not lost. Rowe was committed to jail till the second Monday in July, when he will be brought before the Hustings Court for a further examination. It is quite likely that the present charge will land him in the White House--a kind of college where the students learn their lessons under compulsion.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Statistics of Lunacy in Belgium. (search)
Riotous. --Four or five young men appeared before the Mayor yesterday to answer the charge of riotous and disorderly conduct at the Theatre on Saturday night, the 16th inst. The evidence proved that some one of the party insulted a gentleman from the country, without cause, and that they afterwards followed him into the Theatre and attempted to renew the disturbance; but as the witnesses could not identify the leaders, the Mayor adjourned the investigation until Tuesday next, and required Frank Britton, Philip Lambert, John Curry and John Carnell, to give ball to appear and answer at that time.
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource], Additional by the Canada. (search)
The Grand Jury of the Hustings Court met yesterday, and found true bills against the following persons, charged with misdemeanors: J. F. Cluff, John Hagan, Daniel Face, Wm. H. Smith, Donald McKenzie, Wm. Gouldin, Timothy Collins, Edward Moore, Joseph Barraggi. They also presented Thomas Hiltzehimer, Joshua Curry, Samuel Chapman, John Curry, Wm. Dailey and Thomas H. Taylor, for an assault on Ann Maria Myers and Elizabeth Thomas; and Wm. H. Smith in two cases, for selling goods in violation of the revenue laws.
The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Boston courtesy to a Southern merchant. (search)
ouglas members are negotiating to combine on some Southern Douglas Democrat. The Governor's message was delivered on the 18th. The principal feature was the strong ground taken in favor of preserving the Union, and opposition to a Pacific Republic under any circumstances. He urges a petitioning of Congress to alter the Eastern boundary of California so as to take in the Washoe silver region. The receipts of the State Treasury during the past year exceeds the expenditures by $86,000. A Union meeting is proposed at Sacramento, when all the candidates for United States Senator will be called on to define their positions. The following is a complete list of all the known aspirants for the Senatorship:--James A. McDougal, J. W. Denver, Edmund Randolph, John Conness, John Curry, John Nugent, John Bidwell, J. P. Hoge, and Humphrey Griffith. J. L. Shafter, Wilson Flint and Leland Stanfort, have been spoken of on the Republican side, and A. M. Given on the Breckinridge.
The Daily Dispatch: January 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], An Old case. (search)
An Old case. --John Finn, charged with firing crackers in the Second Market on Christmas day, and the same and John Curry, for fighting on the same festive occasion, were called up, and the Mayor continued the case to Friday, inasmuch as Mr. Finn had to go to Hanover Court.
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