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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 2 0 Browse Search
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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 2 0 Browse Search
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States 2 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mormons, (search)
e high council, with seventy wagons drawn by horses, proceeded as pioneers to take possession of the country. They passed up the north fork of the Platte River to Fort Laramie, crossed Salt Lake City. that stream, followed its course along the banks of the Black Hills to South Pass, which they penetrated. Along the rivers, through deep canons, over the lofty Utah Mountains, they toiled on until, on the evening of July 20, they saw, from the summits of the Wasatch Mountains, the placid Salt Lake glittering in the beams of the setting sun. It was like the vision of the Hebrew law-giver on Mount Pisgah. It was a scene of wondrous interest. Stretched out before them was the Land of Promise where they hoped never to be molested by Gentiles, or the arm of Gentile government. The pilgrims entered the valley on July 21, and on the 24th the president and high council arrived. They chose the site for a city on a gentle slope, on the banks of a stream which they called Jordan, connectin
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Taylor, Zachary 1784- (search)
and were already in active progress of execution before any communication from me reached California. If the proposed constitution shall, when submitted to Congress, be found to be in compliance with the requisitions of the Constitution of the United States, I earnestly recommend that it may receive the sanction of Congress. The part of California not included in the proposed State of that name is believed to be uninhabited, except in a settlement of our countrymen in the vicinity of Salt Lake. A claim has been advanced by the State of Texas to a very large portion of the most populous district of the Territory commonly designated by the name of New Mexico. If the people of New Mexico had formed a plan of a State government for that Territory as ceded by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and had been admitted by Congress as a State, our Constitution would have afforded the means of obtaining an adjustment of the question of boundary with Texas by a judicial decision. At pres
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Townsend, George Alfred 1841- (search)
Townsend, George Alfred 1841- Journalist; born in Georgetown, Del., Jan. 30, 1841; educated in Philadelphia, Pa.; entered journalism in 1860; was war correspondent for the New York World in 1864-65. and was connected with other well-known papers, including the New York Herald, Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Enquirer, etc., under the pen-name of Gath. He is the author of Life of Garibaldi; Real life of Abraham Lincoln; The New world compared with the old; Washington outside and inside; Mormon trials at Salt Lake; Washington Rebuilded; Tales of the Chesapeake; Life of Levi P. Morton; Tales of Gapland, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
ix months......Oct. 21, 1822 Iturbide surrenders his crown, March, 1823, and is banished from America, May, 1823; California is substantially independent until the new constitution of the Mexican Republic is ratified by the Junta of California......May 26, 1825 Electors, summoned by Gov. Jose Maria Escheandia, choose Capt. Jose de la Guerra y Noriega delegate to Mexican Congress......Feb. 18, 1826 Jedediah S. Smith, a trapper from the United States, the first to make the trip from Salt Lake, reaches San Gabriel......Dec. 26, 1826 Territorial committee, seven members and three substitutes chosen by the junta of electors at San Diego in February, meets at Monterey......June 14, 1827 Joaquin Solis, a convict ranchero, instigates the troops to revolt against the governor, with a view to give all offices to Californians; soldiers at Monterey seize the presidio, Nov. 12-13, and later meet no opposition at San Francisco......1829 Governor Escheandia by proclamation calls on
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Utah, (search)
.....Sept. 8, 1843 Brigham Young and 142 Mormons, in search of a location for their new Zion, arrive at the site of Salt Lake City......July 21, 1847 Mormons to the number of 1,553, with 580 wagons, leave Council Bluffs, July 4, and reach Salt Lake......September, 1847 Utah included in the cession by Mexico to the United States by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 James Brown purchases the tract where Ogden now stands from Miles M. Goodyear, who held it by Spanish greseret, with capital at Salt Lake City, formed by a convention which met at Salt Lake City, March 4, and chose Brigham Young governor, March 12. First General Assembly convenes......July 2, 1849 Perpetual Emigration Fund Company organized at Salt Lake......Oct. 6, 1849 City of Provo founded......1849 First number of the Deseret News published at Salt Lake City......June 15, 1850 City of Ogden laid out......August, 1850 Territory of Utah created by act of Congress......Sept. 9, 18
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 51: (search)
ants we had on board the Alabama, and whether we fed them on live Yankees, as they had heard. The boarding-officer, who was a bit of a wag, told them that we had made the experiment, but that the Yankee skippers were so lean and tough, that the giants refused to eat them. Whereupon there was a general grunt, and as near an approach to a smile as a Mohammedan ever makes. They then said that they had heard that we were in favor of a plurality of wives. They had heard of Brigham Young and Salt Lake. The officer said, Yes, we had a few; three or four dozen a piece. They now insisted upon his smoking with them, and plied him with other questions, to which they received equally satisfactory answers; and when he got up to depart, they crowded around him at the gangway, and salaamed him over the side, more reverentially than ever. I have no doubt that when these passengers arrived at Mecca, and discussed learnedly the American war, half the pilgrims at that revered shrine became good C
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
Ohio37.61 Detroit. Mich.30.05 Mackinac, Mich.23.96 Richmond, Ind.43.32 Peoria, Ill41.25 Milwaukee, Wis.30.40 Fort Snelling, Minn.25.11 Muscatine, Iowa42.88 St. Louis, Mo.42.18 Fort Gibson, Ind. Ter.36.37 Fort Towson, Ind. Ter.51.08 Fort Leavenworth, Kan.31.74 Fort Kearney, Neb.25.25 Fort Randall, Dak.16.51 Fort Laramic, Wyoming15.16 Fort Massachusetts, Col.17.06 Fort Garland, Col6.11 Fort Craig, New Mexico11.67 Fort Marcy, New Mexico16.65 Fort Defiance, Arizona14.21 Salt Lake, Utah23.85 Fort Bridger, Utah6.12 Sacramento, Cal19.56 San Francisco, Cal21.69 San Diego, Cal9.16 Meadow Valley, Cal57.03 Dalles, Oregon21.74 Fort Hoskins, Oregon66.71 Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory38.84 Fort Colville, Wash. Ter.9.83 Neah Bay, Wash. Ter123.35 Sitka, Alaska83.39 Vera Cruz, Mexico183.20 Cordova, Mexico112.08 Bermuda55.34 San Domingo107.6 Havana, Cuba91.2 Rio Janeiro, Brazil59.2 Maranham277.00 Cayenne116.00 Toronto, Canada35.17 St. Johns, Newfoundland5
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Illinois Volunteers. (search)
icksburg, Miss., July 8-15, thence to Port Hudson, La., July 24-25 and to New Orleans, La., August 13. At New Orleans till September 5. Moved to Morganza Bend September 5-6. Action at Morgan's Ferry, Atchafalaya River, September 7. Morganza September 8. Duty at Morganza till October 10. Moved to New Orleans, La., October 10-11; thence to Point Isabel, Texas, October 23-November 3. March to Brownsville November 6-9, and frontier duty there till July 28, 1864. Raid to Salt Lake December 31, 1862-January 9, 1864. Moved to Brazos Santiago July 28-30, and garrison duty there till December 24, 1864. Operations near Brazos Santiago August 4-15. Palmetto Ranch September 6. Action Bagdad September 11. Bocca Chica Pass October 14. Moved to New Orleans December 24-29 and duty there till February 21, 1865. Campaign against Mobile, Ala., and its defenses February 21-April 12. Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8. Assault on and
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 19: Red Mormonism. (search)
Chapter 19: Red Mormonism. From Winnemucca, an Indian camp in Nevada, to Brigham, a prosperous Mormon town in Salt Lake Valley, we race and wriggle through a mountain district, not more striking in physical aspect than in human interest. Rolling on the level of Ben Nevis, with a score of snowy peaks in front and flank, we climb through woods of stunted pine, ascending by the Pallisades to Pequop, at the height of Mont d'or, from which we slide by way of Humboldt Wells and the Americannders, Delegate George Q. Cannon, and Professor Orson Pratt. In the camp of Red Cloud, a chief of the Teton Sioux, you hear the same talk of divine help, and of standing face to face with God, as you hear in the Lion House and Tabernacle at Salt Lake. I will consult the Great Spirit, says Red Cloud, when the Indian Commissioners press a point. In speaking to the Whites, Red Cloud never drops this tone of priest and seer. Whatever the Great Spirit tells me to do, that I will do. Red C
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 20: White Indians. (search)
n-twentieths of the territory, says Daniel Wells, mayor of the city, still belonging to the Saints. Yet every one must see that a Gentile feeling, hostile to the Mormon theory of domestic life, begins to reign in store and street, in mart and bank. A Gentile banker may not seem so great a personage as a Mormon bishop, yet this bishop's daughters cannot be prevented from turning their eyes in female envy on that banker's wife. The Gentile lady is more richly dight than any other woman at Salt Lake. The Mormon ladies wish to dress like her. Riches are entering into strife with grace, and fashion is pushing sanctity to the wall. In other days plurality was a rage. You heard of nothing else. Ladies affected to be smitten by the spell, and boasted of bringing in new Hagars to their lords. To have a plural household was a sign of perfect faith and walking in the highest light. To be a member of the Church, and yet refrain from sealing wife on wife, was a discredit to the priesth
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