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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
When a child Mr. Izard was taken by his widowed mother to Columbia, and was there reared and educated. He entered the naval academy at Annapolis in 1850, and after two years study on shore spent two years on the sloop-of-war Portsmouth, and was detached at the Sandwich islands early in 1853 and assigned to the St. Lawrence, a 60-gun frigate, the flagship of the Pacific squadron, in which he cruised until 1855, when he returned to Annapolis for examination and promotion. He graduated in June, 1856, standing sixth in a class of twenty-five, among whom were the following: Rear Admirals W. G. Walker (retired), F. M. Ramsay (retired), W. A. Kirkland (deceased), R. W. Meade (deceased), W. A. Beardsley (retired), and C. C. Carpenter (retired). Upon his graduation as passed midshipman, he was assigned to the St. Lawrence and ordered to the Brazil station. In February, 1857, he was ordered to report to the United States steamer Hetzel for coast survey work on the North Carolina coast, Ches
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], article 33 (search)
Among Abraham Lincoln's visitors on last Thursday was John C. Heenan, the "champion of the world," who, being en route for St. Louis, stopped over at Springfield long enough to see Old Abe. Two of the crew of a ship trading in Savannah have been convicted of endeavoring to entice away slaves, and sentenced to receive three times thirty-nine lashes. An expedition has gone in search of Vogel, the Central African traveler, of whom nothing has been heard since June, 1856. Von Henglin is at the head of it. Gabriel Feretti, Great Prior of the Order of Malta, Bishop of Sabina, and Abbot of Jarva, born at Ancona, Jan. 31, 1795, died in Rome Sept. 15, 1860. Col. E. E. Ellsworth, of Zouave fame, who now resides at Springfield, Illinois, has taken the stump for the Republicans. A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away. Isaac Mitchell, of Richmond, Va., was swindled out of $47 a
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