hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 14 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 14 results in 4 document sections:

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
....Oct. 12, 1865 State farmers' convention held at Frankfort. Forty counties represented......Jan. 11, 1866 Ashland, the home of Henry Clay, near Lexington, purchased for the new Agricultural College of Kentucky......Jan. 15, 1866 Jesse Root Grant, father of General Grant, appointed postmaster at Covington......Feb. 25, 1866 Skaag's men, a band of over 100 armed and mounted outlaws, terrorize the colored population of Marion county......1866 Legislature rejects Fourteenth AmendmGeneral Grant, appointed postmaster at Covington......Feb. 25, 1866 Skaag's men, a band of over 100 armed and mounted outlaws, terrorize the colored population of Marion county......1866 Legislature rejects Fourteenth Amendment to Constitution......Jan. 10, 1867 Amnesty bill passed; no officer, soldier, or sailor of the United States or so-called Confederate States shall be held responsible, criminally or civilly, in courts of the State for any act done during the late rebellion, under military authority......Feb. 28, 1867 John L. Helm, elected governor, Aug. 5, inaugurated while dangerously ill at his home in Elizabethtown, Sept. 3; dies......Sept. 8, 1867 Lieut.-Gov. John W. Stevenson succeeds......Sept
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
6 John Quincy Adams dies at Washington, aged eighty......Feb. 23, 1848 Water introduced in Boston through new water-works......Oct. 25, 1848 Shadrach, colored waiter, arrested as a slave in Boston......Feb. 15, 1851 [Rescued by colored persons and sent to Canada.] Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave, arrested in Boston and sent back into slavery......April 12, 1851 [He is sold in New Orleans to a brickmason of Vicksburg, from whence he escapes in 1863 to the besieging army of General Grant, who sent him North.] Senatorial contest in the State legislature between Charles Sumner (Freesoil) and Robert C. Winthrop. Charles Sumner elected on the twenty-sixth ballot......April 24, 1851 Daniel Webster dies at Marshfield, aged seventy......Oct. 24, 1852 Law fixing the hours of labor for a day, from Oct. 1, 1853, to April 1, 1854, at twelve hours; from April 1, 1854, until Oct. 1, 1854, at eleven hours; and after Oct. 1, 1854, at ten hours......May 17, 1853 New constit
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi, (search)
il 29; McClernand defeats the Confederates at Port Gibson, May 1; Raymond occupied by Federals under General McPherson, May 12; McPherson occupies Jackson, May 14; Grant defeats Pemberton at Champion Hills, May 16, and at Big Black River, May 17; Vicksburg invested by forces under General Grant, May 18; Vicksburg surrendered, July General Grant, May 18; Vicksburg surrendered, July 4; Jackson evacuated by General Johnston, who had occupied it after the advance of the Federals on Vicksburg, and the city is occupied by General Sherman......July 16, 1863 Sherman's Meridan expedition leaves Vicksburg......Feb. 3, 1864 Forrest, Confederate, defeats Sturgis at Guntown......June 10, 1864 Upon the surrender ce and order in this State, and to guarantee to all citizens the equal and impartial enjoyment of their constitutional and legal rights ......Dec. 17, 1874 President Grant, by proclamation, orders the people of Warren county to refrain from forcible resistance to the laws, and to submit peaceably to the authorities......Dec. 21,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
also victorious at Fredericktown, Oct. 22, and at Springfield......Oct. 26, 1861 Governor Jackson issues (Sept. 26) a proclamation from Lexington, convening the legislature in extra session at Masonic Hall in Neosho, Newton county......Oct. 21, 1861 General Fremont is relieved by Gen. David Hunter......Nov. 2, 1861 Legislature at Neosho passes an act of secession, Oct. 28, and resolution requesting all members to sign it......Nov. 2, 1861 Indecisive battle at Belmont between Generals Grant and Polk, Nov. 7; Warsaw destroyed by Confederates......Nov. 19, 1861 Major-General Halleck, who succeeded General Hunter, Nov. 7, declares martial law in St. Louis, Dec. 23; and, some men returning from General Price's army having destroyed about 100 miles of the Missouri Railroad, he extends the order to all the railroads in the State......Dec. 25, 1861 Battles at Shawnee Mound and Milford, Dec. 18, 1861, and at Mount Zion......Dec. 28, 1861 New Madrid captured by General Pope