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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morgan , John Hunt 1826 - (search)
Morgan, John Hunt 1826-
Military officer; born in Huntsville, Ala., June 1, 1826; killed at Greenville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1864.
Settled near Lexington, Ky., in 1830, with his parents; served under Taylor in the
John Hunt Morgan. war with Mexico; and in 1861, at the head of the Lexington Rifles, he joined Buckner of the Kentucky State Guard.
At the battle of Shiloh he commanded a squadron of Confederate cavalry, and soon afterwards began his career as a raider.
His first noted exploit was his invasion of Kentucky from eastern Tennessee (July, 1861), with 1,200 men, under a conviction that vast numbers of young men would flock to his standard and he would become the liberator of that commonwealth.
Dispersing a small National force at Tompkinsville, Monroe co., he issued a flaming proclamation to the people of Kentucky.
He was preparing the way for Bragg's invasion of that State.
Soon recruits joined Morgan, and he roamed about the State, plundering and destroying.
At Lebanon
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morris , William Walton 1801 -1865 (search)
Morris, William Walton 1801-1865
Military officer; born in Ballston Springs, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1801; graduated at West Point in 1820, and served against the Indians under Colonel Leavenworth in 1823; gained promotion to major for services in the Seminole War, and to colonel in 1861.
He served under Taylor in the war against Mexico, and was military governor of both Tampico and Puebla.
When the Civil War broke out he was in command at Fort McHenry, where he defied the threatening Confederates, and promptly turned the guns of the fort menacingly on the city during the riots in Baltimore, April 19, 1861.
He was brevetted brigadier-general in June, 1862, and major-general in December, 1865.
He died in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 11, 1865.
See Baltimore; McHenry, Fort.
Mother of Presidents,
A name popularly given to Virginia, which has furnished six Presidents of the United States—namely, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison, and Taylor.
It is also called Mother of States, as it was the first settled of the original thirteen States that formed the Unio
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nominating conventions, National (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Okeechobee Swamp , battle of (search)
Okeechobee Swamp, battle of
An engagement in Florida in which General Taylor defeated the Seminoles and captured Osceola, Dec. 25, 1837.
Palo Alto, battle of
On a part of a prairie in Texas, about 8 miles northeast of Matamoras, Mexico, flanked by ponds and beautified by tall trees (which gave it its name), General Taylor, marching with less than 2,300 men from Point Isabel towards Fort Brown, encountered about 6,000 Mexicans, led by General Arista, in 1846.
At a little past noon a furious battle was begun with artillery by the Mexicans and a cavalry attack with the lance.
The Mexicans were forced back, and, after a contest of about five hours, they retreated to Resaca de la Palma and encamped.
They fled in great disorder, having lost in the engagement 100 men killed and wounded.
The Americans lost fifty-three men. During the engagement Major Ringgold, commander of the American Flying Artillery, which did terrible work in the ranks of the Mexicans, was mortally wounded by a small cannonball that passed through both thighs and through his horse.
Rider and horse both fell to the ground.
The latter was dead; th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Political parties in the United States . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Polk , James Knox 1795 -1849 (search)