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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nashville, (search)
ed Confederate army. This rear-guard struck back occasionally. The pursuit was suspended at Lexington, Ala., on the 28th. Thomas estimated his entire loss in his campaign, from Sept. 7, 1864, to Jan. 20, 1865, at 10,000 men, or less than half the loss of Hood. During that time lie had captured 11,857 men, besides 1,332 who had been exchanged, making a total of about 13,000. He had also captured seventy-two serviceable guns and over 3,000 small-arms. The Tennessee Centennial and National Exposition was held at Nashville in 1897, from May 1 to Oct. 30, in West Side Park (a former race-course), upon which over $100,000 had been spent in grading and ornamentation. The chief building was a copy of the Parthenon, around which the other buildings were clustered. Among the features of this Exposition were reproductions of the Pyramid of Cheops, the Alamo, the Rialto of Venice, and the Blue Grotto of Capri. About two million people attended the fair, which was a success in every way.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York City (search)
ge sheets and raised upon poles, headed England's folly and America's ruin, they quietly dispersed. The governor gave up the stamps (Nov. 5) to the mayor and the corporation of the city of New York, Old Houses, New York City, 1679. City Hall Park in 1822, site of the fields. and they were deposited in the City Hall. The losers by the riots were indemnified by the Colonial Assembly. The fields. The space now occupied by the Post-office, City Hall, and City Hall Park, was in the outPark, was in the outskirts of the town at the middle of the eighteenth century, and was called the Fields. There, after the organization of the Sons of Liberty (1765), public meetings of citizens were held under their direction. The first of these of note was in the middle of December, 1769, when 1,400 people gathered, summoned by a handbill distributed over the city, addressed to the betrayed inhabitants of the city and colony of New York, and signed A son of liberty. It was inspired by an act of the Provincial