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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chancellorsville, battle of (search)
sides. At six o'clock in the evening the Confederates attacked him. His forces gave way and retreated to Banks's Ford, and before morning the remains of Sedgwick's corps had crossed the Rappahannock over pontoon bridges. Gibbon also withdrew from Fredericksburg to Falmouth that night, and, on Tuesday, Lee had only Hooker to contend with. He concentrated his forces to strike Hooker a crushing blow before night, but a heavy rain-storm prevented. Hooker prepared to retreat, and did so on the night of May 5 and morning of the 6th, crossing the Rappahannock and returning to the old quarters of the army opposite Fredericksburg. The losses of each army had been very heavy. That of the Confederates was reported at 12,277, including 2,000 prisoners, and that of the Nationals was 17,197, including about 5,000 prisoners. The latter also lost thirteen heavy guns, about 20,000 small-arms, seventeen colors, and a large amount of ammunition. The Union Generals Berry and Whipple were killed.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Charleston, S. C. (search)
the bottom. Another, bearing Hessian troops, was driven across the Atlantic, and dashed on the shore of England. The troops landed on islands below Charleston, and it was late in February before the scattered British forces appeared on St. John's Island, in sight of the wealthy city, containing a population of 15.000 inhabitants, white and black. The city was then defended by less than 2,000 effective troops, under General Lincoln, who cast up intrenchments across Charleston Neck. Commodore Whipple had sunk some of his armed vessels in the channels of the harbor, after transferring the cannon and seamen to the land fortifications. Fort Moultrie was well garrisoned. The invading troops appeared before the defences of Charleston March 29, and the fleet entered the harbor, unmolested, April 9. On the following day Clinton and Arbuthnot demanded the surrender of the city, which was promptly refused, and a siege began. On the 13th Lincoln and a council of officers considered the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gaspee, (search)
y. When, subsequently, the colonists were at war with Great Britain, the act of Captain Whipple was avowed, and Sir James Wallace, in command of a British ship-of-war in Narraganset Bay, wrote as follows to the perpetrator of the act: You, Abraham Whipple, on June 9, 1772, burned his Majesty's vessel, the Gaspee, and I will hang you at the yard-arm. Whipple coolly replied: Sir, always catch your man before you hang him. A ballad was written at the time, containing fifty-eight lines of doggeWhipple coolly replied: Sir, always catch your man before you hang him. A ballad was written at the time, containing fifty-eight lines of doggerel verse, which ended as follows: Now, for to find these people out, King George has offered very stout, One thousand pounds to find out one That wounded William Duddington. One thousand more he says he'll spare For those who say the sheriff's were. One thousand more there doth remain For to find out the leader's name; Likewise five hundred pounds per man For any one of all the clan. But, let him try his utmost skill, I'm apt to think he never will Find out any of those hearts of gold,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio Company, the (search)
promising field for settlements. On the night of Jan. 9, 1786, Gen. Rufus Putnam and Gen. Benjamin Tupper formed a plan for a company of soldiers of the Revolution to undertake the task of settlement on the Ohio River. The next day they issued a call for such persons who felt disposed to engage in the enterprise to meet at Boston on March 1, by delegates chosen in the several counties in Massachusetts. They met, and formed The Ohio Company. It was composed of men like Rufus Putnam, Abraham Whipple, J. M. Varnum, Samuel Holden Parsons, Benjamin Tupper, R. J. Meigs, whom Americans think of with gratitude. They purchased a large tract of land on the Ohio River; and on April 7, 1788, the first detachment of settlers sent by the company, forty-eight in number—men, women, and children—seated themselves Site of Marietta in 1781 near the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, athwart the great war-path of the fierce Northwestern tribes when they made their bloody incursions to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pacific Railway. (search)
introduced a bill into Congress providing for preliminary steps in such an undertaking. In 1853 Congress passed an act providing for surveys of various routes by the corps of topographical engineers. By midsummer, 1853, four expeditions for this purpose were organized to explore as many different routes. One, under Major Stevens, was instructed to explore a northern route, from the upper Mississippi to Puget's Sound, on the Pacific coast. A second expedition, under the direction of Lieutenant Whipple, was directed to cross the continent from a line adjacent to the 36th parallel of N. lat. It was to proceed from the Mississippi, through Walker's Pass of the Rocky Mountains, and strike the Pacific near San Pedro, Los Angeles, or San Diego. A third, under Captain Gunnison, was to proceed through the Rocky Mountains near the head-waters of the Rio del Norte, by way of the Hueferno River and the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The fourth was to leave the southern Mississippi, and reach the P
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
gate to Congress......Oct. 3, 1799 Zanesville settled......Oct. 3, 1799 Territory divided into: (1) Territory northwest of the Ohio River (now Ohio) and (2) Territory of Indiana......May 7, 1800 Chillicothe made the seat of government for Ohio......1800 St. Clair reappointed governor......1800 Four land-offices established to sell public lands, at Steubenville, Marietta, Cincinnati, and Chillicothe......May 10, 1800 First State-house erected at Chillicothe......1801 Abraham Whipple takes the first ship, 100 tons, built at Marietta, down the Ohio and Mississippi to Havana, and thence to Philadelphia......1801 By authority from Congress, a convention meets at Chillicothe, Nov. 3, which signs and ratifies for the people the first constitution of Ohio......Nov. 29, 1802 Ohio is admitted into the Union as the fourth under the Constitution of the United States, and the seventeenth in the roll of States......Nov. 29, 1802 St. Clair deposed as governor by Jeffers
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wallace, Sir James -1803 (search)
Wallace, Sir James -1803 Naval officer; commanded the British fleet at Newport, R. I., in 1775, where he had a laconic correspondence with Capt. Abraham Whipple (q. v.). He bore General Vaughan's marauding land force up the Hudson River in October, 1777; and in 1779 was captured by D'Estaing. In Rodney's battle with De Grasse, on April 12, 1782, he commanded the Warrior. In 1794 he was made rear-admiral; in 1795 vice-admiral; and in 1801 admiral of the blue. He was governor of Newfoundland from 1793 to 1795. He died in London, March 6, 1803.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Whipple, Abraham 1733- (search)
Whipple, Abraham 1733- Naval officer; born in Providence, R. I., Sept. 16, 1733; went to sea in early life; commanded a ship in the West India trade, and in 1759-60 was captain of a privateer, capturing in a single cruise twenty-six French vessels. His vessel was called the Game Cock. In June, 1772, Whipple commanded the volunteers who burned the Gaspee in Narraganset Bay. In 1775 he was put in command of two armed vessels fitted out by Rhode Island, and was given the title of commodoreon. It consisted of one 54-gun ship, two 44-gun ships, four of thirty-two guns, and the Sandwich, also an armed ship. Whipple was in the outer harbor with a flotilla of small vessels. Finding he could not prevent the British ships from passing the bar, he fell back to the waters immediately in front of Charleston and transferred all the crews and Abraham Whipple. guns of his vessels, excepting one, to the batteries on the shore. The commodore sunk most of his own and some merchant vesse