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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
s as special agent of the Treasury Department, to secure from seizure the revenue cutters Lewis Cass at Mobile, and Robert McClelland at New Orleans. He found the Cass, as we have observed, in possession of the authorities of Alabama. See page 175. He hastened to New Orleans, and in a note to Captain J. G. Breshwood, of the McClelland, inclosing one from Secretary Dix, The original is before me. It reads thus: This letter will be presented to you by Wm. Hemphill Jones, a special agent ofhe telegraph in New Orleans, did not allow this dispatch to pass. Collector Hatch was in complicity with them, and the McClelland fell into the hands of the insurgents. Two days afterward, the National Mint and the Custom House, with all the preciopromises gave joy to the lover of his country. When Farragut's fleet approached New Orleans, in April, 1862, and the McClelland was set on fire and abandoned by the traitors in charge of her, David Ritchie, a bold sailor, boarded her, and saved fr
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 14: the great Uprising of the people. (search)
in the afternoon, while sitting on the base of the unfinished monument commemorative of the conflict, making a drawing of the plain of Chalmette, where it occurred, we heard seven discharges of heavy guns at the city — the number of the States in the Confederacy. Fort Sumter is doubtless gone, I said to my companion. It was so. The news had reached the city at that hour, and under the direction of Hatch, the disloyal Collector of the port of New Orleans, See page 185. the guns of the McClelland, which the insurgents had seized, were fired in honor of the event. On our return to the city, at five o'clock in the evening, we found it alive with excitement. The Washington Artillery were just marching by the statue of Henry Clay, on Canal Street, and members of many other corps, some of them in the brilliant and picturesque Zouave uniform, were hurrying, singly or in squads, to their respective places of rendezvous. The cry in all that region then was: On to Fort Pickens! The se
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 15: siege of Fort Pickens.--Declaration of War.--the Virginia conspirators and, the proposed capture of Washington City. (search)
truction of a navy; therefore, while the offer of Davis to issue letters of marque created uneasiness among shipping merchants, they did not feel serious alarm, especially when it was known that the Government would institute a rigid blockade. But it was not long before privateers were on the seas. The Confederates had not the means for building vessels, but they had for purchasing them. They had already stolen six National revenue cutters, The Lewis Cass, Washington, Pickens, Dodge, McClelland, and Bradford. which they fitted up as privateers; and The lady Davis. in the course of a few weeks after the recognition of a state of war, Mr. Mallory, the so-called Secretary of the Navy of the conspirators, had purchased and fitted out about a dozen vessels. The owners of as many more private vessels took out letters of marque immediately after Davis's proclamation was made; and before the middle of June, the commerce of the United States was threatened with serious mischief. The
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cabinet, President's (search)
aac Toucey March 6, 1857 Gideon Welles March 5, 1861 Adolph E. Borie March 5, 1869 George M. Robeson June 25, 1869 Richard W. Thompson March12, 1877 Nathan Goff, JrJan. 6, 1881 William H. Hunt March 5, 1881 William E. Chandler April 1, 1882 William C. Whitney March 6, 1885 Benjamin F. TracyMarch 5, 1889 Hilary A. Herbert arch 6, 1893 John D. Long March 5, 1897 March 5, 1901 Secretaries of the Interior. Thomas Ewing March 8, 1849 Alexander H. H. Stewart Sept.12, 1850 Robert McClelland March 7, 1853 Jacob Thompson March 6, 1857 Caleb B. Smith March 5, 1861 John P. Usher Jan. 8, 1863 James Harlan May 15, 1865 Orville H. Browning July 27, 1866 Jacob D. Cox March 5, 1869 Columbus Delano Nov. 1, 1870 Zachariah Chandler Oct. 19, 1875 Carl Schurz March12, 1877 Samuel J. KirkwoodMarch 5, 1881 Henry M. Teller April 6, 1882 L. Q. C. Lamar March 6, 1885 William F. Vilas Jan. 16, 1888 John W. Noble March 5, 1889 Hoke SmithMarch 6, 1893 David R. Francis Aug.24,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin, William Buel 1823- (search)
ng as Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West Point for four years, he occupied the same chair, and that of Civil Engineering, in the New York City Free Academy, in 1852. In May, 1861, he was appointed colonel of the 12th Infantry, and in July was assigned the command of a brigade in Heintzelman's division. He was in the hottest of the fight at Bull Run; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers in September, and appointed to the command of a division of the Army of the Potomac. Franklin did excellent service in the campaign of the Virginia Peninsula, and on July 4, 1862, was promoted to major-general. He served under McClelland in Maryland, and under Burnside at Fredericksburg, and in 1863 was assigned to the Department of the Gulf, under Banks. In March, 1865, he was brevetted major-general in the regular army, and, resigning in March, 1866, engaged in manufacturing and engineering. In 1889 he was United States commissioner-general for the Paris Exposition.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McClelland, Robert 1807-1880 (search)
McClelland, Robert 1807-1880 Statesman; born in Greencastle, Pa., Aug. 1, 1807: graduated at Dickinson College in 1829; admitted to the bar in 1831; removed to Michigan in 1833; elected to the State legislature in 1838; to Congress as a Democrat in 1843; and governor in 1852. He resigned the last office to become Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Pierce. He died in Detroit, Mich., Aug. 27, 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
opulation in 1890, 2,093,889; in 1900, 2,420,982. See United States, Michigan, in vol. IX. Territorial governors. Name.Term. William Hull 1805 to 1813 Lewis Cass 1814 to 1831 George B. Porter 1831 1834 Steven T. Mason 1834 to 1835 State governors. Steven T. Mason 1836 to 1840 William Woodbridge 1840 to 1841 James W. Gordon 1841 John S. Barry 1842 to 1846 Alpheus Felch 1846 to 1847 William L. Greenley 1847 Epaphroditus Ransom 1848 to 1850 John S. Barry 1850 to 1852 Robert McClelland 1852 to 1853 Andrew Parsons 1853 to 1855 Kingsley S. Bingham 1855 to 1859 Moses Wisner 1859 to 1861 Austin Blair 1861 to 1865 Henry H. Crapo 1865 to 1869 Henry P. Baldwin 1869 to 1873 John J. Bagley 1873 to 1877 Charles M. Crosswell 1877 to 1881 David H. Jerome 1881 to 1883 Josiah W. Begole 1883 to 1885 State governors—Continued. Name. Term. Russell A. Alger 1885 to 1887 Cyrus G. Luce 1887 to 1891 Edwin B. Winans 1891 to 1893 John T. Rich1893 to 1896 Hazen S. Pingr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Michigan, (search)
of Michigan begun......1845 Seat of government permanently located at Lansing by act approved......March 16, 1847 Michigan and Wisconsin troops enlisted for the Mexican War leave Detroit by boat for Vera Cruz......April 24, 1847 Capital punishment, except for treason, abolished in the State......1847 Epaphroditus Ransom elected governor......November, 1847 Constitution framed by a convention which met at Lansing June 3; adopted by vote of the people......Nov. 5, 1850 Governor McClelland made United States Secretary of the Interior, Lieut.-Gov. Andrew Parsons acting governor......March 6, 1853 Maine liquor law passed......1853 State asylum for deaf, dumb, and blind, established by act of legislature in 1848, opens in rented rooms at Flint......February, 1854 Ship-canal around St. Mary's Falls opened......1855 Lands granted by Congress to aid in building a railroad from Ontonagon to the Wisconsin State line......1856 State reform school at Lansing opened