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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 47 : operations of South Atlantic Blockading Squadron , under Rear-admiral Dahlgren , during latter end of 1863 and in 1864 . (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 52 : operations about Charleston , 1865 .--fall of Charleston , Savannah , etc. (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 53 : operations of the West Gulf Squadron in the latter part of 1864 , and in 1865 .--joint operations in Mobile Bay by Rear-Admiral Thatcher and General Canby . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waldersee , Mary Esther , Countess von (search)
Waldersee, Mary Esther, Countess von
Born in New York City, Oct. 3, 1837: daughter of David Lee; spent her early years in Paris with her sister, Josephine, the wife of Baron August von Waechter, ambassador from Wurtemberg to France.
There Mary became the wife of Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg-Noer, who had been exiled.
The prince died July 2, 1865, soon after his marriage.
In 1871 his widow married Albert, Count von Waldersee, who was appointed chief of the general staff of the German army to succeed Count von Moltke in 1888; field-marshal in 1895: and commander of the allied armies in China in 1900.
The countess is credited with possessing a powerful influence in the German Court, and with having brought about the marriage of Emperor William II.
with the Princess Augusta Victoria.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Warwick River , skirmish on (search)
Warwick River, skirmish on
On April 16, 1862, a division of the 4th Corps, General Smith, attacked some Confederates between the mills of Lee and Wisner, on the Warwick River.
They were from McClellan's army, then besieging the Confederate lines at Yorktown.
The attempt to carry the intrenchments there failed, with a loss of 100 men. The Confederates lost seventy-five.
John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Index (search)
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Chapter 20 : the death-grapple. (search)
Archibald H. Grimke, William Lloyd Garrison the Abolitionist, Index. (search)
John G. B. Adams, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Chapter 5 : battles at Peach Orchard , Glendale and Malvern Hill . (search)
John G. B. Adams, Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment, Chapter 6 : battles of Fairfax Court house , Flint Hill and Antietam . (search)