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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
's Cross Roads, Miss. Restrictions on travel rescinded, and arrests for disloyalty forbidden except by direction of the judge-advocate at Washington.—9. Confederate cavalry attacked a Union force at Williamsburg, Va., and were repulsed.—10. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, issued an order calling on all able-bodied men in the State to organize immediately for its defence. Confederates attacked Union troops near Gauley, Va.; the latter burned all the government property and fled. Skirmish neemocratic convention in Philadelphia sympathized with Vallandigham.—3. Peace party meeting in New York, under the lead of Fernando Wood.—8. Departments of Monongahela and Susquehanna created.—12. Darien, Ga., destroyed by National forces. Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, calls out the militia and asks for troops from New York to repel threatened Confederate invasion. General Gillmore in command of the Department of the South.—14. The consuls of England and Austria dismissed from the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Curtin, Andrew Gregg 1817-1894 (search)
Curtin, Andrew Gregg 1817-1894 War governor; born in Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1817; was an active lawyer and politician, and governor of his native State when the Civil War broke out. He had been secretary of state from 1855 to 1858, and superintendent of common schools in 1860. Andrew Gregg Curtin. He was re-elected governor in 1863; was minister to Russia in 1869-72, and Democratic Congressman in 1880-86. He died in Bellefonte, Oct. 7, 1894. Curtin, Andrew Gregg 1817-1894 War governor; born in Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1817; was an active lawyer and politician, and governor of his native State when the Civil War broke out. He had been secretary of state from 1855 to 1858, and superintendent of common schools in 1860. Andrew Gregg Curtin. He was re-elected governor in 1863; was minister to Russia in 1869-72, and Democratic Congressman in 1880-86. He died in Bellefonte, Oct. 7, 1894.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Pennsylvania, (search)
llery and National Light Infantry, of Pottsville; the Ringgold Light Artillery, of Reading; the Logan Guards, of Lewistown; and the Allen Infantry, of Allentown. On the call of the President, the commanders of these companies telegraphed to Governor Curtin that their ranks were full and ready for service. They were assembled at Harrisburg on the evening of April 17. Accompanied by forty regular soldiers destined for Fort McHenry, they went by rail to Baltimore the next morning, and while pasm Findley1817 Joseph Hiester1820 J. Andrew Shulze1823 George Wolf1829 Joseph Ritner1837 David R. Porter1839 Francis R. ShunkResigned, 18481845 William F. JohnsonActing1849 William Bigler1852 James Pollock1855 William F. Packer1858 Andrew G. Curtin1861 John W. Geary1867 John F. Hartranft1873 State governors—Continued. Henry M. Hoyt1879 Robert E. Pattison1883 James A. Beaver1887 Robert E. Pattison1891-1895 Daniel H. Hastings1895-1899 William A. Stone1899-1903 United State
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
dies at Buffalo, N. Y.......Sept. 5, 1894 President Cleveland proclaims amnesty to persons convicted of polygamy under the Edmunds act......Sept. 27, 1894 Proclamation of President setting apart the Ashland forest reserve in Oregon......Sept. 28, 1894 Brig.-Gen. John P. Hawkins, commissary-general of subsistence, United States army, retired......Sept. 29, 1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes, born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809, dies at his residence in Boston......Oct. 7, 1894 Andrew G. Curtin, war governor of Pennsylvania, dies at Bellefonte, Pa., aged seventy-seven......Oct. 7, 1894 Train on the Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad held up 41 miles south of Washington, D. C., and robbed of $150,000......Oct. 12, 1894 Memorial tablet to memory of Robert C. Morris, the financier of the Revolution, unveiled at Batavia, N. Y.; oration by Secretary of Treasury Carlisle......Oct. 13, 1894 Secretary Carlisle offers for sale $50,000,000 of United States 5-per-cent. tenyea