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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 244 2 Browse Search
Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 223 1 Browse Search
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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox 114 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 109 27 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
in its austerest age. The approach of danger quickened his sagacity, and his language gained the boldness of prophecy. He was borne up by the strong support of Richard Henry Lee and Washington. It chanced that George Mason also was then at Williamsburg, a man of strong Chap. III.} 1774. May. and true affections; learned in constitutional law; a profound reasoner; honest and fearless in council; shunning ambition and public life, from desponding sorrow at the death of his wife, for whom he more was well attended. Not till the offices of courtesy and of patriotism were fulfilled, did most of the burgesses return home, leaving their committee on duty. On the afternoon of Sunday the twenty-ninth, the letters from Boston reached Williamsburg. So important did they appear, that the next morning, at ten o'clock, the committee having called to their aid Washington and all other burgesses who were still in town, inaugurated a revolution. As they collectively numbered but twenty-five
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
wounded. The day following, a Shawanese was killed, and another man wounded. The whole number of Indians killed between the twenty-first of April and the end of the month, was Chap. XV.} 1774. about thirteen. At the tidings of this bloodshed, fleet messengers of the Red Men ran with the wail of war to the Muskingum, and to the Shawanese villages in Ohio. The alarm of the emigrants increased along the frontier from the Watauga to the lower Monongahela; and frequent expresses reached Williamsburg, entreating assistance. The governor, following an intimation from the assembly in May, ordered the militia of the frontier counties to be embodied for defence. Meantime Logan's soul called within him for revenge. In his early life he had dwelt near the beautiful plain of Shamokin, which overhangs the Susquehanna and the vale of Sunbury. There Zinzendorf introduced the Cayuga chief, his father, to the Moravians; and there, three years later, Brainerd wore away life as a missionary amo
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 25: (search)
, so that the laborers in the field could not furnish recruits for an army. Except a little powder in a magazine near Williamsburg, it was destitute of warlike stores; and it had no military defences. Of all the colonies it was the most open to attHe also sent a body of marines in the night preceding the twenty-first of April, to carry off the gunpowder, stored at Williamsburg in the colony's magazine. The party succeeded; but as soon as it was known, drums were Chap. XXV.} 1775. April. 21 Hugh Mercer and others from Fredericksburg to Washington; and they proposed, as a body of light-horsemen, to march to Williamsburg for the honor of Virginia. Gloucester county would have the powder restored. The Henrico committee would be content a. The Albemarle volunteers were ready to resent arbitrary power, or die in the attempt. I expect the magistrates of Williamsburg, on their allegiance, such was Dunmore's message, to stop the march of the people now on their way, before they enter
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 29: (search)
overleapt the Green Mountains, swept onward to Montreal, and descended the ocean river, till the responses were echoed from the cliffs of Quebec. The hills along the Hudson told to one another the tale. As the summons hurried to the south, it was one day at New York; in one more at Philadelphia; the next it lighted a watchfire at Baltimore; thence it waked an answer at Annapolis. Crossing the Potomac near Mount Vernon, it was sent forward Chap. XXIX.} 1775. April. without a halt to Williamsburg. It traversed the Dismal Swamp to Nansemond along the route of the first emigrants to North Carolina. It moved onwards and still onwards through boundless groves of evergreen to Newbern and to Wilmington. For God's sake, forward it by night and by day, wrote Cornelius Harnett by the express which sped for Brunswick. Patriots of South Carolina caught up its tones at the border, and despatched it to Charleston, and through pines and palmettos and moss-clad live oaks, still further to th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 31: (search)
legates to congress Chap. XXXI.} 1775. May 2. went determined to bring about a reconciliation. Virginia was still angry at the seizure of its provincial magazine and at the menace of Dunmore to encourage an insurrection of slaves, when on the second day of May, at the cry from Lexington, the independent company of Hanover and its county committee were called together by Patrick Henry. The soldiers, most of them young men, kindled at his words, elected him their chief, and marched for Williamsburg. On the way it was thought that his army increased to five thousand. There is scarce a county of the whole colony, wrote Dunmore, wherein part of the people have not taken up arms, and declared their intention of forcing me to make restitution of the powder. Alarmed by the insurrections, he convened the council of Virginia, and in a proclamation of the third of May did not scruple to utter the falsehood May 3. that he had removed the ammunition lest it should be seized by insurgent
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 37: (search)
insidious offer, the first day of June, 1775, saw the house of burgesses of Virginia convened for the last time by a British governor. Peyton Randolph, the speaker, who had been attending as president the congress at Philadelphia, arrived at Williamsburg with an escort of independent companies of horse and foot, which eclipsed the pomp of the government, and in the eyes of the people raised the importance of the newly created continental power. The session was opened by a speech recommending sis of the modification of the navigation acts; and saw so many ways opened of settling every difficulty, that it was long before he could persuade himself, that the infatuation of the British ministry was so blind as to neglect them all. From Williamsburg, Jefferson repaired to Philadelphia; but before he arrived there, decisive communications had been received from Massachusetts. That colony still languished in anarchy, from which they were ready to relieve themselves, if they could but wri