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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banks , Nathaniel Prentiss , 1816 -1894 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Birge , Henry Warner , 1825 -1888 (search)
Birge, Henry Warner, 1825-1888
Military officer; born in Hartford, Conn., Aug. 25. 1825; was one of Governor Buckingham's aides when the Civil War began.
He entered the service in June, 1861, as major, and early in 1862 was made colonel.
For services on the lower Mississippi he was made brigadier-general, Sept. 19, 1863.
He was in the Red River campaign and in Sheridan's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley in 1864.
In June. 1865, he was appointed to command the military district of Savannah.
For his services in the army he was brevetted major-general of volunteers, and voted the thanks of the Connecticut legislature.
He died in New York City. June 1, 1888.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blennerhassett , Harman , 1764 - (search)
Choctaw Indians,
A tribe mostly Mobilians, and a peaceful agricultural people.
Their domain comprised southern Mississippi and western Alabama.
De Soto fought them in 1540.
They became allies of the French in Louisiana, where they numbered about 2,500 warriors, and formed forty villages.
In the Revolution they were mostly with the English, but were granted peaceable possession of their lands by the United States government.
On Jan. 3, 1786, a treaty was made with the leaders of the nation, of the same purport and upon the same terms as that made with the Cherokees the previous year.
As early as 1800, numbers of them went beyond the Mississippi, and in 1803 it was estimated that 500 families had emigrated.
They served with the United States troops in the second war with England and in that with the Creeks, and in 1820 they ceded a part of their lands for a domain in what is now the Indian Territory.
In 1830 they ceded the rest of their lands and joined their brethren we
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)
Crosby, Peirce
Naval officer; born near Chester, Pa., Jan. 16, 1823; entered the navy as midshipman in 1844; was engaged in the war with Mexico; and was very active as commander on the coast of North Carolina during portions of the Civil War. He was specially brave and skilful in the capture of the forts at Cape Hatteras, at the passage of the forts on the lower Mississippi in the spring of 1862, and at Vicksburg in June and July the same year.
He was in command of the Metacomet during the operations which led to the capture of Mobile in 1865.
In 1882 he was promoted to rearadmiral, and in the following year was retired.
He died near Washington, D. C., June 15, 1899.