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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Willcox, Orlando Bolivar 1823- (search)
h., April 16, 1823; graduated at West Point in 1847; served in Texas and in Florida, and resigned in 1857. In May, 1861, he became colonel of the 1st Michigan Infantry, and was the first to arrive at Washington. D. C., after the call of the President in April, 1861. With Colonel Ellsworth he took possession of Alexandria. He commanded a brigade in the battle of Bull Run, where he was severely wounded and made prisoner. On his exchange in 1862 he was made brigadier-general of volunteers, his commission dating from July 21, 1861. He was active in the Army of the Potomac until after the battle at Fredericksburg, and was temporarily in command of the 9th Army Corps in central Kentucky. In 1863-64 he was engaged in eastern Tennessee; and in the Richmond campaign, ending in the surrender of Lee, he commanded a division in the 9th Corps. In March. 1865, he was brevetted majorgeneral, United States army; in 1886 promoted brigadier-general, United States army, and in 1887 was retired.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Williamson, Robert Stockton 1824- (search)
Williamson, Robert Stockton 1824- Military officer; born in New York in 1824; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1848; served in the Civil War; was chief topographical engineer at the capture of Newbern and Fort Macon, N. C.; brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry in the latter engagement; was transferred to the Army of the Potomac; later was ordered to the Pacific coast, where he was chief topographical engineer of the department in 1863-65; was promoted lieutenant-colonel, corps of engineers, in 1869; and retired in 1882. He died Nov. 10, 1882.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilmot, David 1814-1868 (search)
Wilmot, David 1814-1868 Jurist; born in Bethany, Pa., Jan. 20, 1814; began the practice of law in 1834; was member of Congress from 1845 to 1851; presiding judge of the 13th (Pennsylvania) district from 1853 to 1861; and was in the United States Senate, to fill a vacancy, from 1861 to 1863. He was temporary chairman of the committee of the convention at Chicago that nominated Mr. Lincoln for the Presidency. In August, 1846, while a bill authorizing the President of the United States to expend $3,000,000 in negotiations for peace, with Mexico, by purchase of territory, was pending in the House of Representatives, Wilmot moved (Aug. 8) to add an amendment, That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory front the republic of Mexico by the United States, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory. This proviso was adopted by the House, but it failed of final action. It was the basis of the organizatio
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, James Harrison (search)
Wilson, James Harrison Military engineer; born near Shawneetown, Ill., Sept. 2, 1837; graduated at West Point in 1860; entered the topographical engineer corps, and became first lieutenant in September, 1861. He served in the Port Royal expedition, and was at the capture of Fort Pulaski, for which he was brevetted major. He was aide to General McClellan at South Mountain and Antietam. In the Vicksburg campaign in 1863 he was assistant engineer and inspector-general of the Army of the Tennessee. He was active in the events near Chattanooga, and from May till August, 1864, commanded the 3d Division of cavalry in the Army of the Potomac. In August and September he was in the Shenandoah campaign, and from October, 1864, till July, 1865, he was in command of a division of cavalry in the West and Southwest, being with Thomas in his campaign against Hood, driving the cavalry of the latter across the Harpeth River during the battle of Franklin. He was also distinguished at Nashvill
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winnebago Indians, (search)
ame a party to the treaty at Greenville, in 1795. With Tecumseh they gave help to the British in the War of 1812. Afterwards, for many years, until the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, in 1832, there were continual collisions and irritations between the Winnebagoes and white people on the frontiers. They ceded their lands in Wisconsin and became lawless and roving bands. They had reservations (from which they were removed from time to time) on the head-waters of the Mississippi, and, finally, they had begun to plant and show signs of civilization, when the Sioux War broke out, in 1862, and the people of Minnesota demanded their removal. They were disarmed in 1863, and driven into the wilderness on the Mississippi River, Dakota Territory. They were finally settled at the Omaha and Winnebago agency in Nebraska, where, in 1899, they numbered 1,173, and had farms, cottages, and stock; they dressed like white people, and had three schools. There were 1,202 Omahas at the same agency.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winslow, John Ancrum 1811-1873 (search)
Winslow, John Ancrum 1811-1873 Naval officer; born in Wilmington, N. C., Nov. 19, 1811; was appointed midshipman in 1827; became lieutenant in 1839, distinguished John Ancrum Winslow. himself in the war with Mexico, and was attached to the Mississippi flotilla in 1861. In 1863 he was placed in command of the Kearsarge, and on June 19, 1864, he sank the Alabama (q. v.) off Cherbourg, France. For this action he was promoted commodore. He was in command of the Gulf Squadron in 1866-67, of the Pacific fleet in 1871, and, at the time of his death, of the navy-yard at Portsmouth. He died in Boston, Sept. 29, 1873.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Women, Advancement of (search)
s to sex from its foundation......1833 Elizabeth Blackwell graduates from the medical department, Geneva College (the first M. D. in the United States)......1849 Her sister Emily graduates from the Cleveland Medical College......1852 Edmona Lewis, half negro, half Indian, who becomes a famous sculptor, born in Ontario county, N. Y.......1855 First woman's hospital in the world founded at New York City by Dr. Marion Sims......1857 [In Philadelphia, 1862; in Boston, incorporated, 1863; in Chicago, 1865; in San Francisco, 1875; in Minneapolis, 1882.] Arabella A. Mansfield, of Mount Pleasant, la., admitted to the practice of law......June, 1869 Mrs. Myra Bradwell, of Chicago, applies for a license as an attorney-at-law......1869 [The Superior Court of Illinois refused, and the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the decision. Women now admitted to the practice of law in Illinois by statute.] American Woman's Suffrage Association formed by Lucy Stone Blac
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wood, Fernando 1812-1881 (search)
Wood, Fernando 1812-1881 Legislator; born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 14, 1812; removed to New York in 1820, and became a shipping merchant; was active in public matters; chairman of the Young Men's Political Organization in New York City in 1839; member of Congress in 1841-43; elected mayor of New York in 1854, 1856, 1859, and 1861; and was again a member of Congress in 1863-65 and 1867-77. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 14, 1881. See New York City. The following is the text of Mayor Wood's message of Jan. 6, 1861, in favor of establishing New York City as an independent State. To the Honorable the Common Council: Gentlemen,—We are entering upon the public duties of the year under circumstances as unprecedented as they are gloomy and painful to contemplate. The great trading and producing interests of not only the city of New York, but of the entire country, are prostrated by a monetary crisis; and although similar calamities have before befallen us, it is the fi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woodbury, Daniel Phineas 1812- (search)
Woodbury, Daniel Phineas 1812- Military officer; born in New London, N. H., Dec. 16, 1812; graduated at the United States Military Academy and commissioned second lieutenant of artillery in 1836; later transferred to the engineer corps; promoted captain in 1853 and major in 1861. He served in the Civil War in the defence of the national capital and in the engineering work of the Army of the Potomac; and later was superintendent of the engineering operations against Yorktown and Richmond. He received the brevet of brigadier-general for gallantry in the battle of Fredericksburg, for throwing Frontispiece to Webster's spelling-book. bridges across the Rappahannock in face of the enemy. He was made commandant at Key West, Fla., in 1863, where he died of yellow fever in 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Woods, Charles Robert 1827-1885 (search)
rles Robert 1827-1885 Military officer; born in Newark, O., Feb. 19, 1827; graduated at West Point in 1852. Early in 1861 he was quartermaster on General Patterson's staff, and in October became colonel of the 76th Ohio Volunteers. He was at the capture of Fort Donelson and in the battle of Shiloh. In the Southwest, after July, 1862, he commanded a brigade in the 15th Corps, performing gallant service at Arkansas Post (see Hindman, Fort). He was in nearly all the battles around Vicksburg in 1863, and was made brigadier-general in August of that year. He commanded and led a brigade in the contests on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and in the Atlanta campaign he was conspicuous. In the campaign through Georgia to the sea, and through the Carolinas, he led a division of Osterhaus's corps. In March, 1865, he was brevetted major-general, United States army, and in 1874 was promoted colonel of the 2d United States Infantry and retired. He died in Newark, O., Feb. 26, 1885.
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