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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (search)
rder to diminish the magnitude of this disaster to the rebel cause, that it was merely the repulse of an attack on a strongly defended position. The tremendous losses on both sides are a sufficient answer to this misrepresentation, and attest the courage and obstinacy with which, in three days, battle was waged. Few of the great conflicts of modern times have cost victors and vanquished so great a sacrifice. On the Union side there fell, in the whole campaign, of generals killed, Reynolds, Weed, and Zook, and wounded, Barlow, Barnes, Butterfield, Doubleday, Gibbon, Graham, Hancock, Sickles, and Warren; while of officers below the rank of general, and men, there were 2,834 killed, 13,709 wounded, and 6,643 missing. On the Confederate side there were killed on the field, or mortally wounded, Generals Armistead, Barksdale, Garnett, Pender, Petigru, and Semmes, and wounded, Heth, Hood, Johnson, Kemper, Kimball, and Trimble. Of officers below the rank of general, and men, there were tak
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Seward, William Henry 1801-1872 (search)
majority of his countrymen that his identity had to be explained to them. When Horace Greeley announced to his former political partners that the firm of Seward, Weed, and Greeley was dissolved, Mr. Weed doubtless saw that he meant mischief; Mr. Seward probably did not give that view of the matter much thought. And evidently heMr. Weed doubtless saw that he meant mischief; Mr. Seward probably did not give that view of the matter much thought. And evidently he, with all his sagacity. had been as much surprised as any one when he found that Horace Greeley, by profession philanthropist and journalist, hungered after office. With much undisciplined mental force, with a power of direct utterance on paper which compelled attention, with many vague, inchoate, shifting views as to social an to be a cabinet minister, and pined to be President. Probably no two men knew his unfitness for any executive or legislative position so well as Mr. Seward and Mr. Weed, except one other, Charles A. Dana, who had been managing editor of the Tribune during the years while it was becoming a power in the land; and his political par
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
First session adjourns......Aug. 8, 1882 National mining and industrial exposition held at Denver, Col.......August, 1882 Verdict in star-route case: Peck and Turner not guilty; Miner and Rerdell guilty; jury disagree on the others......Sept. 11, 1882 Engineer G. W. Melville, of the Jeannette, and seamen William Noros and William Ninderman arrive at New York......Sept. 13, 1882 Bi-centennial of the landing of William Penn celebrated in Philadelphia......Oct. 22-27, 1882 Thurlow Weed, politician and journalist, born 1798, dies......Nov. 22, 1882 Second session convenes......Dec. 4, 1882 Tariff commission submits an exhaustive report......Dec. 4, 1882 New trial of star-route case begins......Dec. 4, 1882 Newhall House, Milwaukee, Wis., burned; nearly one hundred lives lost......Jan. 10, 1883 Lot M. Morrill, born 1813, dies at Augusta, Me.......Jan. 10, 1883 Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States under which Dorman B. Eaton,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
y. Grand celebration......Nov. 4, 1825 Delaware and Hudson Canal commenced......1826 Abduction of William Morgan from Canandaigua......Sept. 12, 1826 Thurlow Weed edits the Anti-masonic Enquirer, at Rochester, N. Y.......1826-27 Owing to Morgan's abduction, a county convention at Le Roy, Genesee county, begins the antestchester county......May 17, 1829 Sam Patch jumps from the Genesee Falls at Rochester and is killed......1829 Albany Evening journal started, edited by Thurlow Weed......1830 First omnibus built and used in New York City......1830 Book of Mormon first published by E. B. Grandin at Palmyra......1830 Population of tat Albany......1881 United States Senators Conkling and Platt resign......May 16, 1881 Warner Miller and Elbridge G. Lapham elected......July 17, 1881 Thurlow Weed, politician and journalist, dies at New York City, aged eighty-five......Nov. 22, 1882 Grover Cleveland, Democrat, elected governor......November, 1882 E
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weed, Thurlow 1797-1882 (search)
Weed, Thurlow 1797-1882 Journalist; born in Cairo, N. Y., Nov. 15, 1797; became an orphan in early childhood, with a very scant school education; learned the printer's trade. When fifteen years of age he entered the army as a volunteer, serving throughout the War of 1812 as quartermaster-sergeant; at the age of twenty-one began the publication of a newspaper, the Agriculturist, at Norwich, N. Y. Two years later he founded the Onondaga county Republican. He was unsuccessful, and worked aschbishop Hughes and Bishop McIlvaine, under a commission from the national government, to endeavor to prevent foreign recognition of the Confederacy. On his return he settled in New York City, where he edited the Commercial Advertiser till ill-health caused his retirement in 1867. He published Letters from Europe and the West Indies, and Reminiscences in the Atlantic monthly in 1870. He died in New York City, Nov. 22, 1882. His Autobiography was published in Boston in 1833. Thurlow Weed.