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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 1: The Opening Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
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Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 63: in the Northwest, among the Indians; trip to Alaska; life in Portland, Ore.; 1874 to 1881 (search)
s, returning from his visit around the world in 1879, made us a call. We gave him and his party an evening reception, having invited public men from the territory of Washington and the State of Oregon to meet him. When General Grant and his wife rode up with me from the Vancouver dock to my quarters, he had many observations, he said: I think, Julia, that must have been put up on Howard's account; it wasn't here in my day! During the reception that evening Governor Ferry, of Washington Territory, in an informal address in behalf of the citizens, welcomed the general and his friends to the Pacific coast. The general, standing with his hand upon a cionary, W. H. Gray, historian of Oregon. During the fall of 1879, President Hayes, accompanied by General Sherman and others, paid a visit to Oregon and Washington Territory. I met him at Roseberg as they came up from California, and accompanied them along the line of the railroad and elsewhere, while they were in my departmen
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 5: more changes--1886-1888; aet. 67-69 (search)
adily, with a frank, honest face, and in a genial, offhand manner. A good specimen of his sort, not fine-brained, nor over-brained, but believing in religion and glad to devote his life to it. The Bishop has blue eyes and a shaggy head of grizzled hair. After Tacoma came hospitable Seattle ; where she lectured and attended a meeting of the Seattle Emerson Club; then to Olympia, by a small Sound steamer. A queer old bachelor on board, hearing me say that I should like to live in Washington Territory, said he would give me a handsome house and lot if I would live in Olympia, at which several Olympians present laughed. She left Olympia by train, en route for Portland. The conductor, Brown by name, saw the name on her valise, and claimed acquaintance, remembering her when she lived in Boylston Place. Soon after, passing a lovely little mill-stream, with a few houses near it, by name Tumwater, she consulted him as to the value of land there, with the result that she bought severa
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
n command until after the battle of Gettysburg. Mustered out, Mar. 4, 1864. Brevet Colonel and Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Curtis, James Freeman. Born at Boston, Mass., Dec. 19, 1825. Major, 2d Cal. Infantry, Sept. 2, 1861. Lieut Colonel, 4th Cal. Infantry, June 25, 1863. Colonel, May 20, 1864. Brevet Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, Nov. 30, 1865. Served in recruiting 2d Cal. Volunteers; in command of Post at Fort Collville, Washington Territory and Drum Barracks, Cal.; commanding military district of southern California. Cutler, Lysander. Born at Royalston, Worcester County, Mass., Feb. 16, 1807. Colonel, 6th Wis. Infantry, July 16, 1861. In command of the Iron Brigade, Army of the Potomac. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862. Brevet Maj. General, Aug. 19, 1864. Resigned, June 30, 1865. Died at Milwaukee, Wis., July 30, 1866. Dana, James Jackson. Born at Waltham, Mass., Apr. 9, 1821. Second Lieuten
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
. A., was ordered to the Pacific coast. The steamer San Francisco, on which the troops took passage, encountered a hurricane off the Atlantic coast, and for several weeks was reported lost. Lieutenant Winder and his men were, however, rescued and carried to Liverpool. For his coolness and devotion on this occasion he was promoted to captain of the Ninth regiment, March 3, 1855, being, it is believed, the youngest captain in the army. Finally reaching the Pacific coast he went into Washington Territory in 1856, and was engaged in the desperate combat of To-hots-nim-me, with the Columbia river Indians, and other engagements in 1856 and 1858 in the Spokane country, under the command of Steptoe and Wright. Early in 1861 he resigned his commission, and was commissioned, to date from March 16th, major of artillery in the Confederate army. He served at Charleston during the reduction of Fort Sumter, and was in command of the South Carolina arsenal until commissioned colonel of the Sixth
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
connection with the old army continued until his resignation in 1857, he then having the rank of first lieutenant, mounted rifles. During this period he first served in Missouri and Kansas, marched to Oregon in 1849, remained there and in Washington Territory until 1851, and after that was mainly on duty in Texas. After his retirement he was engaged in farming in his native county until 1861. Upon the passage of the ordinance of secession he had ready a company of cavalry, the Washington Mounture of the Mexican capital. He subsequently served with the Eighth infantry on frontier duty in Texas until 1855, when he was promoted captain Ninth infantry, and given a year's assignment to Fortress Monroe. He was afterward on duty in Washington territory, until the spring of 1861. In 1856 he occupied San Juan island with sixty men, and forbade the landing of British troops, winning the thanks of the territorial legislature for his gallant and firm discharge of duty, and the commendation o
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 5: (search)
ings of the army engaged in this service, he says: To mitigate these evils, and to enable us to give a reasonable security to our people on Indian frontiers, measuring thousands of miles, I respectfully suggest an augmentation of at least one regiment of horse (dragoons, cavalry, or riflemen) and at least three regiments of foot (infantry or riflemen). This augmentation would not more than furnish the reenforcements now greatly needed in Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota, leaving not a company for Utah. Again, General Scott, in his report of November 13, 1858, says: Senate Executive Documents, 1858-59, vol. II., part 3, p. 761. This want of troops to give reasonable security to our citizens in distant settlements, including emigrants on the plains, cap scarcely be too strongly stated; but I will only add, that as often as we have been obliged to withdraw troops from one frontier in order to reeinforce another,
Col. J. J. Dickison, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.2, Florida (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ry art. The good use he made of his opportunities in that practical military training school was afterward evidenced by the skill with which he managed troops upon the great arena of war from 1861 to 1865. The man who obtained a good reputation on that great theater of action had to keep abreast of many illustrious men of the same rank with himself, and that is what General Anderson did. After the close of the Mexican war General Anderson lived for a time in Olympia, in what was then Washington Territory, and served as territorial delegate to the national House of Representatives in 1855. Before the opening of the Confederate war he had removed to Florida, and as a citizen of Jefferson county he was a member of the secession convention. Feeling, as did most Southern men, that the South was right, he entered heart and soul into the struggle to maintain Southern rights and honor. As early as December, 1860, before there has been any secession, but when everybody felt certain that suc
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, Index. (search)
on, D. C. 6, 1; 7, 1; 27, 1; 43, 7; 74, 1; 81, 4; 86, 15; 89, 1; 100, 1; 117, 1; 135-A; 137, A8; 171 Defenses 6, 1; 89, 1 Vicinity of, 1862 7, 1; 8, 1 Washington, Department of (U): Boundaries 163; 167-171 Washington, La. 135-A; 156, B4 Washington, Mo. 117, 1; 135-A; 152, E8 Washington, N. C. 24, 5; 76, 2; 117, 1; 135-A; 138, E9; 139, A10; 171 Siege of, March 30-April 20, 1863 24, 5 Washington, Ohio. 135-A; 140, C8; 141, B7 Washington Territory 120, 1; 162-171 Fort Washita, Indian Territory 54, 1; 135-A; 159, D3; 171 Watauga River, Tenn. 142, C8 Wateree River, S. C. 120, 2; 135-A; 143, C11 Waterford, Miss. 154, C11 Waterford, Va. 7, 1; 27, 1; 100, 1; 116, 2; 136, F7 Waterloo, Ala. 24, 3; 72, 6; 117, 1; 118, 1; 135-A; 149, D2 Waterloo, La. 135-A; 156, B6 Waterloo, Va. 22, 5, 22, 7; 100, 1 Waterloo Bridge, Va. 21, 13; 23, 2, 23, 5 Waterproof, La. 135-A; 155, E6
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
years prior to the Confederate war. His grandfather was one of the rich merchants of New York. His mother was Miss Bethune, of Charleston, S. C. General Gracie was born in New York, December 1, 1833. When of suitable age he attended for five years a school in Europe. In September, 1850, he was appointed to the United States military academy from New Jersey. On graduation, in 1854, he was promoted in the army to brevet second lieutenant of infantry. He served on frontier duty in Washington territory; on an expedition against the Snake Indians; was engaged with much credit near Walla Walla; afterward at Fort Boise, and again at Fort Vancouver. In 1856 he resigned and became a member of his father's firm in Mobile, displaying much capacity for business, and enjoying home life with his wife, Miss Mayo, of Virginia, a relative of Gen. Winfield Scott. He did not, however, lose his fondness for the military life, joining the Washington light infantry of Mobile and becoming its captai
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Autobiography of Gen. Patton Anderson, C. S. A. (search)
king any effort or application to receive any other position. The bill to organize the territory of Washington had become a law on the 3d of March. My uncle, John Adair, who had removed to Astoriadness of Mr. Davis (now Secretary of War) I was appointed United States marshal for the Territory of Washington. I accepted it and set about making preparations for the journey. Two difficulties weUnited States marshal to proceed at once to take a census of the inhabitants of the new Territory of Washington, and also a Treasury draft for a thousand dollars, to defray my expenses in the work! resident for four years. He appointed me Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs of Washington Territory [the same positions had been tendered him by Mr. Pierce, which he had declined.—E. A. A.] my wife's advice on the subject. On consultation with her I determined not to return to Washington Territory, believing firmly that the days of the Union were already numbered, and not wishing to be
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