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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 40: social relations and incidents of Cabinet life, 1853-57. (search)
e misty with tears as he closed the widow's note. He abhorred the idea of oppressing the weak so greatly, that it was a difficult matter to keep order with children or servants. If the children were sent from the table for misconduct he called them to kiss him before they went, and our little girl Margaret Howell, who was born about this time, would as soon as she could talk say, I wish I could see my father, he would let me be bad. Mr. Davis's chief clerk and good friend, Colonel Archibald Campbell, used to remonstrate with him on the sums he gave to charity. In anyone else, he said, it would be a mere yielding to importunity, but after they have left Mr. Davis grieves over their suffering, and it wears him very much. He had never heard the poem of the Babes in the wood, or, strange to say, even the story; probably from his going away from home so early in his childhood he missed the heartrending histories repeated to the babes in the nursery. One day when he was ill, I
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 19: battle of the forts and capture of New Orleans. (search)
he could with her small power, and in the end the united power of these vessels succeeded in getting over the bar the heaviest vessels that ever entered the Mississippi River. When the ships were all ready to move up, I directed Mr. Gerdes (assistant in the Coast Survey) to proceed in the Sachem and make a minute survey from Wiley's Jump up to the forts. He detached Mr. Oltmanns and Mr. Harris, the first an assistant in the Coast Survey, the latter sent out by the superintendent (Mr. Archibald Campbell) of the northwestern boundary, to perform what might be required of him; the work was performed by boats; Lieutenant-Commander Guest, in the Owasco, being detailed by me for the purpose of protecting them. These two gentlemen, Messrs. Harris and Oltmanns, performed their duty most admirably: in three days they had surveyed and triangulated over seven miles of the river, their observations taking in Forts Jackson and St. Philip; much of this time they were under fire from shot and sh
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 1 (search)
graduated from the institution. At the end of the third year he stood number seventeen in his class of sixty. At the end of the fourth and last year he stood number nineteen in his class, then reduced to fifty-six. He was graduated on the 1st of July, 1835, and assigned as brevet second lieutenant to the Third Regiment of Artillery. Among those of his class who in after years became prominent in military and civil life were George W. Morrell, Henry L. Kendrick, Montgomery Blair, Archibald Campbell, Herman Haupt, Henry M. Naglee, Joseph H. Eaton, Marsena R. Patrick, Thomas B. Arden, and Benjamin S. Roberts. It is customary to allow the class graduating from West Point a leave of absence for three months before the members are obliged to report for duty to the various posts assigned them. Lieutenant Meade, availing himself of this leave, sought and obtained, after a few days spent in Washington with his mother, employment as an assistant on the survey of the Long Island Railro
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
Henry A. Wise, brother-in-law of Mrs. Meade, afterward Governor of Virginia. would have here, and you can write to Mr. Wise and tell him we all, and Colonel Campbell also, of Tennessee (a very handsome fellow, who was the first to enter the enemy's batteries) thought of him. He was in Congress at the same time with Mr. Wise ater to Major Bache, who will doubtless see the contest going on in the papers among the letter-writers. Already has the colonel of the Tennessee regiment (Colonel Campbell), in whose favor, by-the-by, I was very much prepossessed from his appearance, written a letter, in which he says he was ordered to sustain the regulars, buten we see that at that attack some fifteen officers were killed and wounded, and some two hundred and fifty men, out of a force of not much over six hundred. Colonel Campbell's letter had induced me to say this much about the affair, that you may fully understand it. I regret to say the letter-writers have created a great ferme
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
nt me one himself, yesterday morning. I found on my arrival, last night, that three distinguished gentlemen, Mr. Alexander Stephens (Vice President of the Confederacy), Mr. R. M. T. Hunter (formerly United States Senator from Virginia), and Mr. Campbell, of Alabama (formerly Judge United States Supreme Court), were in our lines, having been passed in by General Grant, on their expressing a wish to go to Washington. After Grant had admitted them, he received a telegram from Washington directi to the generals on each side, and taken out of the hands of politicians. I answered I had no doubt a settlement would be more speedily attained in this way, but I feared there was no chance for this. We then conversed on general topics. Judge Campbell asked after your family, and Mr. Hunter spoke of Mr. Wise, and said he had brought two letters with him, one of which I herewith enclose. I judge from my conversation that there is not much chance of peace; I fear we will split on the ques
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
209, 394. Cadwalader, John, I, 113; II, 191. Cadwaladers, I, 3. Caesar, I, 352. Caldwell, John C., I, 293; II, 65, 69, 77, 86, 89, 100. Calef, J. H., II, 32. Camac, Thomas, I, 8. Cameron, Simon, I, 236, 241, 243, 265. Campbell, Mr., II, 258, 259. Campbell, Archibald, I, 12. Campbell, Wm. B., I, 140, 164, 165. Canales, Gen., I, 98. Canaliso, Gen., I, 144, 145. Canby, Gen., II, 242. Candy, C., II, 94, 101. Carr, J. B., I, 293; II, 83, 190. Carroll,Campbell, Archibald, I, 12. Campbell, Wm. B., I, 140, 164, 165. Canales, Gen., I, 98. Canaliso, Gen., I, 144, 145. Canby, Gen., II, 242. Candy, C., II, 94, 101. Carr, J. B., I, 293; II, 83, 190. Carroll, Misses, I, 364. Carroll, Mrs., I, 364. Carroll, Samuel S., II, 92, 93, 99, 416. Carter, Judge, II, 149. Cedar Mountain, battle of, Aug. 9, 1862, I, 305, 335. Cerro Gordo, battle of, 1847, I196. Chambliss, Col., II, 22, 94, 101. Chancellorsville, battle of, May 3-5, 1863, I, 370-374, 377-382. Chandler, Zachariah, I, 248, 324, 340, 359, 379; II, 171-174, 177, 178, 212, 253, 254, 260. Chapman, Dr., I, 8. Chapman, Gen., I, 289. Chase, Salmon P., I, 9, 160, 235, 264
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 15: Worcester County. (search)
.10. The ladies of Oakham were not behind their sisters in neighboring towns in their labors for the soldiers, although exactly what was done by them I have not the means of stating. Oxford Incorporated—— —, 1713. Population in 1860, 3,034; in 1865, 2,713. Valuation in 1860, $1,156,411; in 1865, $1,137,476. The selectmen in 1861, 1862, and 1863 were L. B. Corbin, Emory E. Harwood, T. W. Wilmarth; in 1864, L. B. Corbin, Emory E. Harwood, Ira Merriam; in 1865, L. B. Corbin, Archibald Campbell, W. E. Pease. The town-clerk during all the years of the war was W. E. Pease; and the town-treasurer during the same period was Emory Sanford. 1861. The first legal town-meeting to consider matters relating to the war was held May 6th, when it was voted to raise four thousand dollars to defray the expenses of organizing a military company; and Alexander DeWitt, Emory Sanford, George Hodges, Jr., Samuel C. Paine, William E. Pease, Charles A. Angell, Ira Harrison, and Elisha M. Sm<
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
ndary Survey (1857) in two fine volumes, the first two chapters of volume I containing a very interesting personal account. One of the boundary commissioners, John Russell Bartlett, published his own account in two volumes of Personal narrative of explorations and incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua during the years 1850, '51, '52, and 1853 (1854), a valuable addition to the literature of the South-west. On the north the boundary was also surveyed, and Archibald Campbell and W. J. Twining wrote Reports upon the Survey of the boundary between the territory of the United States and the possessions of great Britain from the Lake of the Woods to the summit of the Rocky Mountains (1878). Previously the boundary along the 49th parallel had been surveyed to the Gulf of Georgia in settling the Oregon question. A volume published for the author, Philip Tome, in Buffalo in 1854, now very rare, is Pioneer life, or thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adve
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
lifornia, Das Stille Meer, 581 California from the conquest in 1846, 141 Californian (San Francisco), 4 California inter Pocula, 196 California pastorals, 196 Californien, 581 Calisto, 593 Calkin, 500 Call of the Bugles, the, 52 Call of the wild, the, 94 Calogne, 597 Cambric shirt, the, 507 Cambridge (University), 87, 454 Camel, the, 473 Cameo Kirby, 288 Camille, 271 Campaigns of the army of the Potomac, 181 Campaigns of the Civil War, 181 Campbell, Archibald, 153 Campbell, Bartley, 275, 278, 290 Campbell, Duncan, 534 Campbell, J., 437 Campbells are coming, the, 493 Cannibals all! 340 Cannon, M., 137 Canoe and the saddle, the, 68, 155 Canonge, Placide, 591, 592, 593 Canterbury pilgrims, the, 277 Canyon voyage, a, 158 Cape Cod papers, 313 Capers, Ellison, 342 Cap'n Cuttle, 268 Captain Jinks of the horse Marines, 294, 516 Captain Letterblair, 280 Captain W. F. Drannan, chief of scouts, 53 Cardinal's Snuff
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.18 (search)
t Washington and Lee University; Prince Edward Academy, in 1776—now Hampden—Sidney College; Washington—Henry Academy, in Hanover, founded a few years later by John D. Blair—the Parson Blair, of Richmond, of revered memory; the schools of Rev. Archibald Campbell and Thomas Martin (the latter of whom prepared James Madison for Princeton College) in Richmond county; of Rev. James Maury, in Orange (the preceptor of Jefferson and many eminent Virginians); of Donald Robertson, of King and Queen. Virst of Virginia-born physicians graduated from Edinburgh and Glasgow is a lengthy one. The earliest in preserved record were Theodrick Bland, in 1763; Arthur Lee, 1764, and Corbin Griffin, 1765. Among the subsequent names were those of McClurg, Campbell, Walker. Ball, Boush, Lyons, Gilliam, Smith, Field, Lewis, McCaw, Minor, Berkeley, Corbin, Brockenbrough, Adams, Greenhow, Archer, Dabney, Banister, and others, endeared to us in the offices of their decendants. Nor was there deficiency in
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