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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 175 17 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 10. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 69 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 61 3 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 54 0 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 48 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 42 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 38 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 4. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 32 0 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 32 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 28 0 Browse Search
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A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864., Biographical sketches. (search)
Biographical sketches. General Wm. Buel Franklin Was born in York, Pa., February 27, 1823; graduating at West Point in June, 1843, he was assigned to the corps of topographical engineers. In the Chihuahua Column in the early part of Gen. Taylor's campaign in Northern Mexico, he served upon the staff of Gen. Wool. He was on the staff of the commander-in-chief at Buena Vista, and for gallant and meritorious services in that battle, was brevetted first lieutenant. For several years prior to 1852, he was instructor in natural and experimental philosophy, at West Point Military Academy. He subsequently filled the same chair in the College of New York. He was engineer in charge of the Capitol at Washington, from November, 1859, to March, 1861. Naturally the services of a loyal, trained soldier, so accomplished as was the subject of this sketch, were in eager demand in the spring of 186; he was appointed, May 14, colonel of the Twelfth United States Infantry, and three days
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 10: Thoreau (search)
gle with the weeds and poor soil of the two-acre patch on which he raised his beans and potatoes, every item of his various accounts, his food, his daily routine, his house-cleaning, have the fascination of a narrative by Defoe. The reader follows the solitary in his swim across the lake, or through the wood to the village, or about the hut, or along the rows of beans, with a zest he can hardly explain to himself. The reason is that Henry Thoreau in Walden wood is the same as the mariner of York on the Island of Desolation; he represents once more the struggle of primitive man to obtain food and shelter, in fact the epic of civilization. The interest of the theme is perennial. Walden is also the memorial of an American faun, of a wild man who lived in the woods, who carried an umbrella like Robinson Crusoe, to weatherfend his head, and used a microscope to study insects with. About the same time, just after leaving Harvard, Thoreau found his first arrowhead and began his first
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3 (search)
District August 20th and 31st, as shown by inspection reports. Notes(b) to (i) refer to that organization. Lieutenant-General Jubal A. Early Commanding. Gordon's division. Major-General John B. Gordon. Hays's brigade. constituting York's brigade. Fifth Louisiana, Colonel Henry Forno. Sixth Louisiana, Colonel William Monaghan. Seventh Louisiana, Colonel D. B. Penn. Eighth Louisiana, Colonel A. DeBlanc. Ninth Louisiana, Colonel William R. Peck. Gordon's brigade. E J. C. Higginbotham. Forty-second Virginia, Colonel R. W. Withers. Forty-fourth Virginia, Colonel Norvell Cobb. Forty-eighth Virginia, Colonel R. A Dungan. Fiftieth Virginia, Colonel A. S. Vanderventer. Stafford's brigade. constituting York's brigade. First Louisiana, Colonel W. R. Shivers. Second Louisiana, Colonel J. M. Williams. Tenth Louisiana, Colonel E. Waggaman. Fourteenth Louisiana, Colonel Z. York. Fifteenth Louisiana, Colonel E. Pendleton. Rodes's division. Maj
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 16. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Heroes of the old Camden District, South Carolina, 1776-1861. an Address to the Survivors of Fairfield county, delivered at Winnsboro, S. C., September 1,1888. (search)
that the Sixth, Twelfth and Seventeenth Regiments, which were raised mostly from the districts of York, Chester, Lancaster, Fairfield and Kershaw, that constituted the old Camden district at the time s composed, with the exception, I believe, of two companies from Oconee, of companies raised from York, Lancaster, Kershaw, and Fairfield. From Fairfield there were two companies, Company C, Captain killed, eighteen wounded and three missing. Among the wounded was Lieutenant Cadwalader Jones, of York. Then followed the winter of 1864-‘65 in the trenches around Petersburg. The engagements on tf 1862 (with the exception of but two companies from Barnwell), was composed entirely of men from York, Chester, Lancaster and Fairfield. These were: Three companies from York, Captains Meacham, WilsYork, Captains Meacham, Wilson and Whitingan; two companies from Chester, Captains Culp and Caskey, and two companies from Fairfield, Co. B, Captain W. P. Coleman and Co.—, Captain James Beatty. It was organized by the election
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
be added, that, having given away the whole south, he enfeoffed his brother with the country between Pemaquid and the St. 1664 Croix. The proprietary rights to New Hampshire and 1677 Maine were revived, with the intent to purchase then Chap. XI.} for the duke of Monmouth. The fine country from Connecticut River to Delaware Bay, tenanted by nearly ten thousand souls, in spite of the charter to 1664. Winthrop, and the possession of the Dutch, was, like part of Maine, given to the duke of York. The charter which secured a large and fertile province to William Penn, and thus invested philanthropy with 1681. executive power on the western bank of the Delaware, was a grant from Charles II. After Philip's war in New England, Mount Hope was hardly rescued from a 1679. courtier, then famous as the author of two indifferent comedies. The grant of Nova Scotia to Sir Thomas Temple was not revoked, while, with the inconsistency of ignorance, Acadia, with indefinite boundaries, was 1667
The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
gained. Leading Union men from Kentucky now here are very anxious to have the necessary permission given, as they all believe it would greatly strengthen the Union feeling in their State. The Maryland authorities having reluctantly, but meekly notified the Government that Northern troops could pass through their State unmolested, Gen. Patterson will not move his corps d'armee in a body towards Washington, but in detachments of from two to three regiments. They will commence moving from York, Harrisburg, Lancaster and Philadelphia, as soon as the repairs on the Northern Central and Philadelphia and Wilmington Railroad are completed, and march through Baltimore to test the temper of that city. Should the slightest attempt to repeat the murderous treachery of the 19th ult. be made, the guns of Fort McHenry will teach the bloody city a lesson that she will never forget. General Scott is anxious to see all the volunteers called here come fully armed and uniformed, and ready to
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
e among the nations of the earth, and that He will renew and warm within us those sentiments of love and affection which have hitherto characterized us as a nation." Attempt at insurrection. [Special Dispatch to the Charlotte Bulletin.] Chester, S. C., Dec. 27. --There was a family residing in Chester, by the name of Hughes, and they were notified to leave the district, on account of their traffic with negroes and other conduct not becoming to gentlemen. They then settled in York, and lately it was found that they were drilling companies of negroes to raise an insurrection, and the Vigilance Committee got hold of it, and they were arrested, the number being found, and one was shipped to a free State, and the remaining three are in Chester jail, to await a trial due them. They received fifty lashes each, and had half the hair shaved off their heads. The way it came to be found out was by one of the negroes concerned in it, that told his master that they were goin
The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Defensive campaigns. (search)
heaf of oats, from the country. This performance certainly was not of a defensive character, unless a siege be so, and we hold it to have been one of the most astonishing of which history makes mention. When the enemy-finally abandoned Philadelphia, he followed him, attacked him fariously at Monmouth, and but for unforeseen incidents would have annihilated his army.--Previously he had shown the same readiness to take the offensive at Germantown, and subsequently he showed it in the siege of York. When he was called, during the French war in the time of President Adams, to take the command of the American army destined to repel a threatened French invasion, doubts were expressed whether his "system," as it was called, would not fail before the rapid movements and facile combinations peculiar to the new French tactics. His iographer, Chief Justice Marshall, in noticing these expressions of doubt, takes occasion to say, that Washington would have been always prompt to act on the offen
The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], Lost on a Railway. (search)
ble and I am a goin' in to Hartford and down to York, and John's brother he's goin' to meet me therethought maybe l'd have to stop quite a while in York, and this pongee I'm in isn't very much to loo" said he. "Where isn't? We haven't got to York, have we? Oh, my apples? I declare for 't, thary. "No, I'm going further. I'm goin' to York" The conductor did not wait to hear the laant to go?" said he. "Why, I want to go to York. You see I'm goin to Albany, but I'm goin' to York fast." "You're in the wrong train. Ma'am. This train goes to Boston." "Oh dear!" exmorning,' said the lady. 'Well, if I go to York now, I don't know where to go, for James he wono you know one thing — is Albany in Indianny or York?' 'They Albany we are going to is in New Y't James, his brother, when I was goin' down to York, would band over the money for my passage to whings and for to pay my passage from Hartford to York, and I hain't got more'n three of it left. I'v[1 more...]
The Daily Dispatch: July 28, 1863., [Electronic resource], The invasion of Pennsylvania (search)
as undertaken an enterprise above his strength and failed, as he ought to have known that he must fail. In the last mentioned case he actually is condemned in almost these very terms, because Bulow chanced to meet with a guide possessing above the average intelligence of Flemish peasants, although his plan of campaign was fraught with the most consummate wisdom. Some spring or wheel of the very complicated machinery with which the campaign against Cornwallis, terminating in his surrender at York, was worked, might have jarred — and in order to ensure success it was necessary that every part of it should do its work faithfully — and Washington might have failed. Then, most assuredly, he and his plan would have been denounced by this class of persons. We have been led into these reflections by the comments which we hear made every day upon the campaign of Gen Lee in Pennsylvania. To our mind it was one of the wisest, grandest, and most imposing schemes ever conceived by the mind
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