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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Canals. (search)
ati, O., to Toledo, O. Morris 6,000,0001836103Easton, Pa., to Jersey City, N. J. Muscle Shoals and Elk River Shoals.3,156,919188916Big Muscle Shoals, Tenn., to Elk River Shoals, Tenn. Newbern and Beaufort3Clubfoot Creek to Harlow Creek, N C. Ogeechee 407,818184016Savannah River, Ga., to Ogeechee River, Ga. Ohio 4,695,2041835317Cleveland, O., to Portsmouth, O. Oswego5,239,526182838Oswego, N. Y., to Syracuse, N. Y. Pennsylvania7,731,7501839193Columbia, Northumberland, W1ilkesbarre, HuntingdOgeechee River, Ga. Ohio 4,695,2041835317Cleveland, O., to Portsmouth, O. Oswego5,239,526182838Oswego, N. Y., to Syracuse, N. Y. Pennsylvania7,731,7501839193Columbia, Northumberland, W1ilkesbarre, Huntingdon, Pa. Portage Lake and Lake Superior528,892187325From Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior. Port Arthur18997Port Arthur, Tex., to Gulf of Mexico. Santa Fe 70,00188010Waldo, Fla., to Melrose, Fla. Sault Ste. Marie 4,000,00018953Connects Lakes Superior and Huron at St. Mary's River. Schuylkill Navigation Co12,461,6001826108Mill Creek, Pa., to Philadelphia, Pa. Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan99,66118811 1-4Between Green Bay and Lake Michigan. St. Mary's Falls7,909,66718961 1-3Connects Lakes Super
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
ss resolved to issue $100,000,000 in United States notes.—20. General Hunter assumes command of the Department of the South.—22. Gen. Fitz-John Porter dismissed from the National service.—24. General Burnside, at his own request, relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac.—25. First regiment of negro Union soldiers organized at Port Royal, S. C.—26. Peace resolutions offered in the Confederate Congress by Mr. Foote. Engagement at Woodbury, Tenn.—27. Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee River, Ga., bombarded by the Montauk.—30. Union gunboat Isaac Smith captured in Stono River. S. C.—31. Blockading squadron off Charleston Harbor attacked by Confederate iron-clad gunboats, and the harbor proclaimed opened by Beauregard and the Confederate Secretary of State. Skirmish near Nashville, Tenn., and the Confederates defeated.—Feb. 1. National troops occupy Franklin, Tenn.—2. United States House of Representatives passed a bill providing for the employment of negro sold
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Confederate privateers (search)
62) to prosecute the war with vigor. Before the close of July following they had more than twenty vessels afloat as privateers to depredate upon American commerce, and had destroyed millions of dollars' worth of property. At the first, the most formidable of these were the Nashville and Sumter. The former was a sidewheel steamer, carried a crew of eighty men, and was armed with two long 12-pounder rifled cannon. She was destroyed (Feb. 28, 1862) by the Montauk, Captain Worden, in the Ogeechee River. The career of the Sumter was also short, but much more active and destructive. She had a crew of sixty-five men and twenty-five marines, and was heavily armed. She had run the blockade at the mouth of the Mississippi River (Jan. 30, 1861), ran among the West India islands, making many prizes of vessels bearing the American flag, and became the terror of the Privateer ship Sumter. Confederate naval commission. American merchant service, skilfully eluding National vessels of war
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Johnston, Richard Malcolm 1822-1898 (search)
Johnston, Richard Malcolm 1822-1898 Author; born in Powelton, Ga., March 8, 1822; graduated at Mercer University, Georgia, in 1841, and a year later was admitted to the bar. In 1857-61 he was Professor of Literature in the University of Georgia. He was an officer in the Confederate army throughout the Civil War. In 1867 he moved to Baltimore, and engaged in authorship. His works include Georgia sketches; Dukesborough tales; Historical sketch of English Literature (with W. H. Browne); Old mark Langston; Two Gray Tourists; Mr. Absalom Billingslea, and other Georgia folk; Ogeechee cross Firings; Widow Guthrie; The Primes and their neighbors; Studies: literary and social; Old times in Middle Georgia; Pearse Amerson's will, etc. He died in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 23, 1898.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McAllister, Fort, capture of (search)
McAllister, Fort, capture of As Sherman's army, marching from Atlanta to the sea, approached Savannah, they found Fort McAllister, at the mouth of the Ogeechee River, a bar to free communication with the ocean, and on Dec. 13, 1864, General Hazen was ordered to carry it by assault. With a division of the 15th Corps Hazen crossed the Ogeechee at King's Bridge, and at 1 P. M. that day his force was in front of the fort—a strong enclosed redoubt, garrisoned by 200 men under Major Anderson. Sherman and Howard repaired to a signal-station where, with glasses, they could see the movements against the fort. Hazen's bugles sounded and the division moved to the assault. A little before a National steamer appeared below the fort, to communicate with the National army, but her commander was not sure whether Fort McAllister was still in the hands of the Confederates. All doubt was soon removed. Hazen's charging troops, after a brief but desperate struggle, fighting hand-to-hand over t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
ld enjoy the free navigation of the Mississippi River Sept. 17, 1779 Naval engagement off Flamborough Head, England; the Bon Homme Richard (American), Paul Jones commander, captures the British gun-ship Serapis Sept. 23, 1779 John Jay appointed minister to Spain, and John Adams to negotiate a peace with Great Britain Sept. 27, 1779 Siege of Savannah, Ga., by Americans and French, fails; Pulaski killedSept. 23-Oct. 9, 1779 A company of British regulars and four armed vessels in the Ogeechee River, Ga., surrenders to Colonel WhiteOct. 1, 1779 British evacuate Rhode Island Oct. 11-25, 1779 M. Gerard succeeded by the Chevalier de la Luzerne as minister from France to the United StatesNov. 17, 1779 American army winters at Morristown Dec., 1779 General Clinton sails from New York against Charleston Dec. 26, 1779 Washington reprimands General Arnold, by order of Congress, for misconduct charged by the council of Philadelphia Jan., 1780 Gen. Charles Lee dismissed from the army
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman, William Tecumseh 1820-1829 (search)
ere defeated. Kilpatrick made a feint towards Augusta to mislead the Confederates as to Sherman's destination, also to cover the passage of the army over the Ogeechee River, and, if possible, to release Union captives in the prison-pen at Millen. Kilpatrick and Wheeler had several skirmishes, but no severe battles. On Nov. 30, ps and sands, with the city of Savannah, where Hardee was in command, as his chief object. Kilpatrick and Baird covered the rear of the wing columns between the Ogeechee and Savannah rivers. There was some skirmishing, but no Confederates in force were seen until within 15 miles of Savannah. All the roads leading into that cityvenue of supply, oceanward, for his army, and to communicate with the Union fleet outside. The latter was soon effected. Fort McAllister, near the mouth of the Ogeechee, was in the way, and, on the 13th, Slocum ordered General Hazen to carry it by assault. It was a strong, enclosed redoubt, garrisoned by 200 men. It was carried
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
eward replies to the French government upon mediation (see Jan. 9)......Feb. 6, 1863 Commissary-general of subsistence first appointed, with the rank of brigadier-general......Feb. 9, 1863 Territorial government established in Arizona......Feb. 24, 1863 Congress provides a national currency secured by United States bonds......approved Feb. 25, 1863 [Vote in the Senate, 23 to 21; House, 78 to 64.] Destruction of the Confederate warsteamer Nashville by the Montauk, in the Ogeechee River, Ga.......Feb. 28, 1863 Congress authorizes, besides the four major-generals and nine brigadier-generals for the regular army, forty major-generals and 200 brigadier-generals for the volunteer service; there may be appointed thirty major-generals and seventy-five brigadier-generals for the volunteers......March 2, 1863 Congress resolves that it is the unalterable purpose of the United States to prosecute the war vigorously until the rebellion is suppressed. . . . That any attempt at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Georgia, (search)
h four blankets and two guns, or an equivalent......May 21, 1733 Ten families sent from Savannah to Fort Argyle on Ogeechee River, previously garrisoned by rangers......June, 1733 Public designation of town and wards with religious exercises; t. Gottlieb Spanzenberg, sent over from Saxony to begin a Moravian settlement in America, locate on north side of the Ogeechee River, near Fort Argyle......January, 1735 Fifty-nine Salzburgers under Mr. Vat, twenty-two British emigrants, and some urch people, after preliminary examination of lands in 1752-53 and procuring grant of about 32.000 acres of land between Ogeechee and Altamaha, settle at Midway, Ga.......March, 1754 Patrick Graham elected president of colony......1754 Silverrovince soon after......Jan. 20, 1767 One hundred and seven Irish Protestants settle at forks of Lambert Creek and Great Ogeechee......March, 1768 Benjamin Franklin appointed agent for Georgia in Great Britain......April 11, 1768 King reject
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wayne, Anthony 1745- (search)
irginia, where he performed excellent service until the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. After the surrender, the Pennsylvania line, under Wayne, marched to South Carolina, and their commander, with a part of them, was sent by General Greene to Georgia. On May 21, 1782, Colonel Brown marched out of Savannah in strong force to confront rapidly advancing Wayne. The latter got between Brown and Savannah, attacked him at midnight, and routed the whole party. This event occurred on the Ogeechee road, about 4 miles southwest of Savannah. The vanguard of the Americans was composed of sixty horsemen and twenty infantry, led by Col. Anthony Walton White. These made a spirited charge, killing or wounding forty of the British and making twenty of them prisoners. The sword and bayonet did the work. The Americans lost five killed and two wounded. On June 24 a part of Wayne's army, lying about 5 miles from Savannah, was fiercely attacked by a body of Creek Indians, who first drove the
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