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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 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 8 : the organizations of the veterans (search)
Chapter XXV
The death of General Hancock
assigned to the Division of the Atlantic
measures for Improving the sea
coast defense
General Fitz
John Porter's restoration to the army
President of the board appointed to review the action of the court
martial
General Grant's opinion
Senator Logan's explanation of his hostile attitude toward General Porter.
in the spring of 1886 we were again called to meet around the grave of one of the bravest and best of our companions.
The almost incomparably gallant Hancock, the idol of his soldiers and of a very large part of the people, so perfectly stainless in life and character that even political contest could not fan the breath of slander, had suddenly passed away.
We buried him with all honor at his home in Pennsylvania.
Again it fell to my lot—the lot so common to the soldier—to step into the place in the ranks where my comrade had suddenly fallen.
The Division of the Missouri was then larger in territory and much la
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , Charles Francis , 1807 -1886 (search)
Adams, Charles Francis, 1807-1886
Statesman; born in Boston, Mass., Aug. 18, 1807;
Charles Francis Adams. son of John Quincy Adams; was graduated at Harvard College in 1825.
He accompanied his father to St. Petersburg and England, where he passed much of his childhood until the return of his family to America in 1817. Mr. Adams studied law in the office of Daniel Webster, and was admitted to the bar in 1828, but never practised it as a vocation.
In 1829 he married a daughter of Peter C. Brooks, of Boston.
For five years he was a member of the legislature of Massachusetts.
Having left the Whig Party, he was a candidate of the free-soil party (q. v.) in 1848 for the Vice-Presidency of the United States. Mr. Van Buren being the candidate for the Presidency.
They were defeated.
In 1850-56 Mr. Adams published the Life and works of John Adams (his grandfather), in 10 volumes.
In 1859 he was elected to Congress from the district which his father long represented.
He was then a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , James Lane , 1849 - (search)
Allen, James Lane, 1849-
Author; born in Kentucky in 1849; was graduated at Transylvania University; taught in the Kentucky University, and later became Professor of Latin and Higher English in Bethany College, West Virginia.
Since 1886 he has been engaged in authorship.
His publications include Flute and violin; The Blue grass region, and other sketches of Kentucky; John Gray, a novel; The Kentucky; John Gray, a novel; The Kentucky Cardinal; Aftermath; A summer in Arcady; The choir invisible, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , Robert , 1815 -1886 (search)
Allen, Robert, 1815-1886
Military officer; born in Ohio, about 1815; was graduated at West Point in 1836, and served with distinction in the war with Mexico.
He was a very useful officer in the Civil War, and attained the rank of brigadier-general, and brevet major-general of volunteers.
He was stationed at St. Louis, where his services were of great value during the war. At its close he was made assistant quartermaster-general (1866), and afterwards chief-quartermaster of the division of the Pacific.
He died in Switzerland, Aug. 6, 1886.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Altgeld , John Peter , 1847 - (search)
Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-
Lawyer; born in Germany, in December, 1847; was brought to the United States in infancy by his parents, who settled near Mansfield, O.; received a public school education; entered the Union army in 1863, and served till the close of the war. In 1869 he was admitted to the Missouri bar; in 1874 was elected State attorney of Andrew county, Mo.; in the following year removed to Chicago; in 1886-91 was judge of the superior court of that city; and in 1893-97 was governor of Illinois.
His action in pardoning (June 27, 1893) Fielden, Schwab, and Neebe, who had been imprisoned for complicity in the Haymarket atrocity by alleged anarchists, excited strong and general criticism (see anarchists; Chicago). His publications include Our penal machinery and its victims; Lice questions; Oratory; Its requirements and its rewards (1901); etc.
America's cup,
The popular name of a yachting trophy originally called the Queen's Cup, which was offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron of England in a
America's cup. competition open to the yachts of all nations in 1851.
The cup was won by the Boston-built schooner-yacht America.
Since then there were challenge contests in 1870, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1885, 1886, 1887, 1893, 1895, and 1899, and in each instance the cup was defended by American yachts, with success.
In 1895 Lord Dunraven's yacht, Valkyrie, after having been defeated in one race, won the second, but was deprived of the victory because of a foul.
The Englishman claimed that he had been cheated, and refused to race again.
He charged the American yachtsmen with unsportsmanlike conduct, and visited this country to press his charges.
His complaints were dismissed and he was dropped from the list of members of the New York Yacht Club, under whose auspices the races had been held.
One of the most notable of the several
Anarchists.
The battle on the part of society against the anarchists in the United States may be said to have been fought and won. From the close of the Civil War up to 1886, the number of anarchists in the country constantly increased.
The organization is supposed to have had its origin in Russia, the object of its existence being apparently to secure greater freedom for the people through the assassination of those government officers.
most notably the Czar, who to the popular notion embodied tyranny.
The members of anarchist bands knew but five of their fellows, though the society at one time is said to have had over 40,000 members.
The members were divided into groups of six, one member of each group communicating with one of another, thus forming a great chain, but diminishing the fear of traitors.
The oaths of the members are said to be of a most terrible character.
From its original inception anarchism soon changed until the members of the society in all lands were re