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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, Introductory Chapter. (search)
r the death of Hector; at other times, some brave and heroic spirit, goaded with the sense of her country's wrongs, girds upon her own fair and tender form, the armor of proof, and goes forth, the self-constituted but eagerly welcomed leader of its mailed hosts, to overthrow the nation's foes. We need only recall Deborah, the avenger of the Israelites against the oppressions of the King of Canaan; Boadicea, the daring Queen of the Britons, and in later times, the heroic but hapless maid of Orleans, Jeanne d'arc; and in the Hungarian war of 1848, the brave but unfortunate Countess Teleki, as examples of these female patriots. In rare instances, this sense of the nation's sufferings from a tyrant's oppression, have so wrought upon the sensitive spirit, as to stimulate it to the determination to achieve the country's freedom by the assassination of the oppressor. It was thus that Jael brought deliverance to her country by the murder of Sisera; Judith, by the assassination of Holofer
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 2: Barnstable County. (search)
bandages, and other necessary articles, were made, which were sent to the army hospitals. Orleans Incorporated March 3, 1797. Population in 1860, 1,678; in 1865, 1,586. Valuation in 1860, capture of New Orleans, was presented to the town by Captain Josiah Snow, formerly a citizen of Orleans. The town then voted to pay each of its citizens who would enlist in the military service of tpay one hundred and twenty-five dollars each for fourteen men recruited as part of the quota of Orleans, under the call for troops, Dec. 17, 1864, and to deposit one thousand dollars with the State t the town, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars for each of the men recruited. Orleans furnished one hundred and seventy-seven men for the war, which was a surplus of twenty-nine ove3, $1,109.77; in 1864, $1,778.35; in 1865, $1,093.20. Total amount, $4,365.28. The ladies of Orleans formed a Soldiers' Aid Society in September, 1862, which continued in active operation until Ap
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
Mount Washington 88 N. Nahant 222 Nantucket 478 Natick 433 Needham 609 New Ashford 90 New Bedford 141 New Braintree 653 Newbury 223 Newburyport 225 New Marlborough 91 New Salem 277 Newton 435 Norton 145 Northampton 351 North Andover 229 Northbridge 656 North Bridgewater 564 Northborough 654 North Brookfield 658 North Chelsea 598 Northfield 278 North Reading 439 O. Oakham 659 Orange 280 Orleans 43 Otis 93 Oxford 660 P. Palmer 313 Paxton 661 Peabody (see South Danvers) 243 Pelham 352 Pembroke 566 Pepperell 440 Peru 95 Petersham 662 Phillipston 664 Pittsfield 96 Plainfield 354 Plymouth 568 Plympton 571 Prescott 354 Princeton 665 Provincetown 46 Q. Quincy 511 R. Randolph 513 Raynham 147 Reading 442 Rehoboth 149 Richmond 98 Rochester 572 Rockport 230 Rowe 282 Rowle
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Nims' Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
rtillery of the 19th Army Corps, Col. A. L. Lee, and was made a member of Colonel Lee's staff. The first parade of these batteries as horse artillery (at which Nims' Battery held the post of honor), took place September 5, and was witnessed by Generals Banks, Arnold, Franklin and many other officers. The following letter, a copy of which was found among Colonel Nims' papers, is a proof of their high opinion of this new organization. Office, Chief of Artillery, Qrs. Dept. of the Gulf, Orleans, September 7, 1863. Capt. O. F. Nims, Chief of Artillery, 19th Army Corps. Sir:— It becomes my great pleasure to communicate to yourself and the batteries under your command on the 5th inst., the high commendation of the Commanding General of the Department of the Gulf and the Adjutant General of the United States Army. They were pleased to express the belief that no artillery in the service could be more thorough in their equipments and general appointments. Please communicate th
Caroline E. Whitcomb, History of the Second Massachusetts Battery of Light Artillery (Nims' Battery): 1861-1865, compiled from records of the Rebellion, official reports, diaries and rosters, Roster of Second Massachusetts Battery (search)
unton, Ma.Dec. 30, 1863Sept. 9, 1864, 2d Lieut. 1st La. Cav. Miller, William,32Boston, Ma.July 31, 1861Aug. 16, 1864, expiration of service. Moody, John F.,22Bridgewater, Ma.Sept. 2, 1864June 11, 1865, expiration of service. Moody, Joseph,37Orleans, Ma.Jan. 28, 1864Died Jan. 19, 1865, Morganza, La. Morrison, James T.,35Boston, Ma.Jan. 1, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Morton, Lemuel Q.,22Boston, Ma.Jan. 4, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Moran, Michael,21Rockport, Ma.Ath, James,21Brighton, Ma.July 31, 1861Jan. 5, 1864, re-enlistment. Smith, James,23Boston, Ma.Jan. 6, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Smith, John,40Roxbury, Ma.Sept. 15, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Smith, Stephen F.,31Orleans, Ma.Jan. 28, 1864Died Nov. 1, 1864, New Orleans, La. Spaulding, Joseph,44Boston, Ma.Jan. 16, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Spaulding, Winfield, S.,19Boston, Ma.Aug. 16, 1864Aug. 11, 1865, expiration of service. Spiller, James W.,36Ch
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 6: third mission to England.—1846. (search)
ral, essential, and sacred rights’ (M. S. July 30, 1847, to Mrs. Louisa Loring). There was Maria Chapman, too, With her swift eyes of clear steel-blue, The coiled — up mainspring of the Fair, Originating everywhere The expansive force without a sound That whirled a hundred wheels around, Herself meanwhile as calm and still As the bare crown of Prospect Hill; Somerville, Mass. A noble woman, brave and apt, Cumaea's sybil not more rapt, Who might, with those fair tresses shorn, The Maid of Orleans' casque have worn, Herself the Joan of our Ark, For every shaft a shining mark. And there, too, was Eliza Follen, Who scatters fruit-creating pollen Where'er a blossom she can find Hardy enough for Truth's north wind, Each several point of all her face Tremblingly bright with the inward grace, As if all motion gave it light Like phosphorescent seas at night. There jokes our Edmund, plainly son E. Quincy. Of him who bearded Jefferson,— A non-resistant by conviction, But with a bump in c<
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. (search)
conspicuous. At precisely half-past 7 Miss Dickinson came in, escorted by Vice-President Hamlin and Speaker Colfax. A platform had been built directly over the desk of the official reporters, and in front of the clerk's desk, from which the lecturer spoke. Mr. Hamlin sat upon her right and Mr. Colfax upon her left. She was greeted with loud cheers as she came in, and Mr. Hamlin introduced her to the select audience in a neat speech, in which he very happily compared her to. the Maid of Orleans. This scene was one which would evidently test severely the powers of a most accomplished orator, for the audience was not composed of the enthusiastic masses of the people, but rather of loungers, office-holders, orators, critics, and men of the world. But the fair speaker did not seem to be embarrassed in the least,--not even by the movements of a crazy man in the galleries, who carried a flag, which he waved over her head when she uttered any sentiment particularly stirring or eloque
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ll for treatment, since he left the United States at an early age. The novel owed its prosperity between 1845 and the Civil War chiefly to popular magazines like La Revue Louisianaise, Les Veillees Louisianaises, La Violette, and L'Echo National, whose feuilletons are now an interesting mine. In this period there was a demand for historical tales and stories of Louisiana life; as witness the following titles, announced by La Revue Louisianaise: Histoire de toutes des rues de la Nouvelle-Orleans, par un Vieux Magistrat; une Famille Creole; or et Fange, mysteres of New Orleans. Garreau's Louisiana, the source of Canonge's France et Espagne, appeared in Les Veillees Louisianaises in 1845. It is long and formless, though the style is clear and the history fairly faithful. Garreau was virtually the first novelist to attempt a re-creation of colonial Louisiana. Charles Testut, one of the most prolific of writers, author of Portraits Litteraires de la Nouvelle-Orleans, and of sever
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, T. W., 32, 33, 109, 113, 116 119-20, 344, 472 Hildeburn, 535 Hildreth, Richard, 71, 178, 438 Hilgard, E. W., 585 Hill, A. S., 312 Hilquit, Morris, 600 Hilt to Hilt, 67 Hirth, F., 585 Histoire de toutes des rues de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 593 Historical essays, 199 Historical magazine, the, 179 Historical sketches of New Mexico, 132 Historical studies of Church building in the Middle Ages, 489, 491 Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England, 452 n. Historypine Gazette, the, 494 Porphyrogenitus, 41 Porphyry, 465 Porter, Jane, 541 Porter, Noah, 240, 477 Porter, Valentine Mott, 143 Porter, W. S., 30, 498 Portrait of a Lady, the, 98, 102, 104, 106 Portraits Litteraires de la Nouvelle-Orleans, 593 Positions to be examined concerning national wealth, 428 Possart, 588 Post, C. C., 161 Post-dispatch (St. Louis), 329 Postl, Karl, 579 Potiphar papers, 114, 313 Potter, A., 434 Potter, Bishop, 136, 163 Poucha-Houmma, 5
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Mademoiselle's campaigns. (search)
t the courage to act, but had not the courage to abstain from acting: he could no more keep out of parties than in them, but was always busy, waging war in spite of Mars, and negotiating in spite of Minerva. And when the second war of the Fronde broke out, it was in spite of himself that he gave his name and his daughter to the popular cause. When the fate of the two nations hung trembling in the balance, the royal army under Turenne advancing on Paris, and almost arrived at the city of Orleans, and that city likely to take the side of the strongest,--then Mademoiselle's hour had come. All her sympathies were more and more inclining to the side of Conde and the people. Orleans was her own hereditary city. Her father, as was his custom in great emergencies, declared that he was very ill and must go to bed immediately; but it was as easy for her to be strong as it was for him to be weak; so she wrung from him a reluctant plenipotentiary power; she might go herself and try what he
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