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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter XXIV (search)
Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army ., Chapter IV (search)
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20 : Peace conference at Hampton Roads .--the campaign against Richmond . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cilley , Joseph 1735 -1799 (search)
Cilley, Joseph 1735-1799
Military officer; born in Nottingham, N. H., in 1735; took part in the dismantling of the fort at Portsmouth in 1774; led a company of volunteers into Boston after the battle of Lexington; made colonel of the 1st New Hampshire Regiment in 1777; took part in the attack on Ticonderoga and in the actions at Bemis's Heights, Monmouth, and Stony Point.
He died in Nottingham, N. H., Aug. 25, 1799.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clinton , Fort, capture of (search)
Febiger, Christian
Military officer; born on Fuinen Island, Denmark, in 1747; rendered military service before entering the American army in April, 1775; was in the battle of Bunker Hill, where he led a portion of a regiment of which he was adjutant; accompanied Arnold to Quebec a few months afterwards, where he was made a prisoner; and served with great fidelity throughout the war He was conspicuous in the assault on Stony Point (July, 1779), leading one of the attacking columns; also at Yorktown, where he commanded the 2d Virginia Regiment, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
From 1789 till his death, in Philadelphia, Sept. 20, 1796, Colonel Febiger was treasurer of the State of Pennsylvania.
King's Ferry, the
Between Stony Point and Verplanck's Point, on the Hudson River, just below the lower entrance to the Highlands, was an important crossing-place, known as the King's Ferry.
It was by this ferry that the great route from the Eastern to the Middle States crossed the Hudson.
It was defended by two forts— Stony Stony Point on the west side, and Fort Lafayette, at Verplanck's Point, on the east.
Sir Henry Clinton resolved to seize this ferry and its defences.
On
Old sign. the return of the expedition of Matthews and Collier from Virginia, Sir Henry ascended the Hudson with the same squadron and 6,000 soldiers.
He landed his troops on both sides of the river, May 31, 1779, a few miles below the forts.
The works on Stony Point were
View at King's Mountain battle-ground. unfinished, and, on the approach of the British, were abandoned.
Cannon were placed on its outer works, and brought to bear on the fort at Verplanck's Point, which, invested on the land side, was c
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Logan , John Alexander 1826 -1886 (search)