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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Vermont, (search)
W. Hendee1870 Jonas Galusha1815John W. Stewart1870 Richard Skinner1820Julius Converse1872 C. P. Van Ness1823Asahel Peck1874 Ezra Butler1826Horace Fairbanks1876 Samuel C. Crafts1828Redfield Proctor1878 William A. Palmer1831Roswell Farnham1880 S. H. Jenison1835John L. Barstow1882 Charles Paine1841Samuel E. Pingree1884 John Mattocks1843Ebenezer J. Ormsbee1886 William Slade1844William P. Dillingham1888 Horace Eaton1846Carroll S. Page1890 Carlos Coolidge1848Levi K. Fuller1892 Charles K. Williams1850Urban A. Woodbury1894 Erastus Fairbanks1852Josiah Grout1896 John S. Robinson1853Edward C. Smith1898 Stephen Royce1854William W. Stickney1900 United States Senators. NameNo. of Congress.Term. Stephen R. Bradley2d to 4th1791 to 1795 Moses Robinson2d to 4th1791 to 1796 Isaac Tichenor4th to 5th1796 to 1797 Elijah Paine4th to 7th1795 to 1801 Nathaniel Chipman5th to 8th1797 to 1803 Stephen R. Bradley7th to 13th1801 to 1813 Israel Smith8th to 10th1803 to 1807 Jonathan Robi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vicksburg, siege of (search)
January Gen. J. A. McClernand arrived and, ranking Sherman, took the Vicksburg during the Civil War. General Pemberton's headquarters at Vicksburg. chief command, and went up the Arkansas River to attack Confederate posts. Meanwhile General Grant had arranged his army into four corps, and with it descended the river from Memphis to prosecute the siege of Vicksburg with vigor. He was soon convinced that it could not be taken by direct assault. He tried to perfect the canal begun by Williams, but failed. Then he sent a land and naval force up the Yazoo to gain the rear of Vicksburg, but was repulsed. Finally Grant sent a strong land force down the west side of the Mississippi, and Porter ran by the batteries at Vicksburg in the night (April 16, 1863) with nearly his whole fleet. Then Grant prepared for vigorous operations in the rear of Vicksburg, on the line of the Black River. On April 27 Porter ran by the Confederate batteries at Grand Gulf, when Grant's army crossed a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Welles, Gideon 1802-1878 (search)
Welles, Gideon 1802-1878 Naval officer; born in Glastonbury, Conn., July 1, 1802; studied law under Judges Williams and Ellsworth, and in 1826 became editor and a proprietor of the Hartford Times, advocating the election of General Jackson to the Presidency. He served in the Connecticut legislature in 1827-35; was comptroller, and in 1836-41 postmaster, at Hartford. In 1846 he was chief of a bureau in the Navy Department, having given up his editorial duties. He became identified with the Republican party in 1857, and was chairman of the Connecticut delegation in the convention at Chicago that nominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency, who in 1861 Gideon Welles. called Mr. Welles to his cabinet as Secretary of the Navy, in which capacity he served until 1869. He died in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 11, 1878.