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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)
ish harness and shot and shell, including 4,000 12-pounder shells. Lieutenant Lee sent to the Governor plans for two powder magazines, to be built at once, these to be of brick 36x12x7 feet, and to cost $1,254. The Governor wrote to Merrill, Thomas & Co., of Baltimore, asking if they would take North Carolina bonds in payment for arms; that he had been so informed, and if true he would send them an order at once. The Governor made requisition on the United States War Department, January 26th, for 334 long-range rifles with sword bayonets. Under date of February 4th, he was advised by Colonel H. K. Craig, of the ordnance office at Washington that these had been ordered shipped. This drew out to the last cent the State's quota of arms allowed by the United States. February 6th, the Governor ordered 200 barrels of cannon powder at 18 cents per pound, and 50 kegs musket powder at the same, to be shipped to him, care McPheeters & Ghiselin, Norfolk. He wrote July 7th, to Merr
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Twelfth Alabama Infantry, Confederate States Army. (search)
lay a causeway around the guard lines for the sentinels use. January 17. Marched Company F to Captain Pickens' headquarters and they were paid for November and December, and commutation for clothing from December 12, 1862, to December 12, 1863. The men felt rich with their depreciated money. How cheerful and jocular they are! January 21. Orders from General Lee to send applications for furloughs at rate of 12 to 100 men present. Tom Clower and Pierce Ware are the lucky ones. January 26. This has been a bright, pleasant day, a most memorable one in the history of Battle's brigade. General Battle made speeches to each one of his regiments, and they re-enlisted unconditionally for the war. I never witnessed such unanimity upon a matter of such vital importance. The brave Twelfth Alabama, when the invitation was given to those who desired to volunteer to step forward two paces, moved forward as one man. General Battle spoke eloquently. Other officers spoke well. Battle'
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3, Chapter 31: (search)
had crossed the Tennessee, and those in pursuit had reached it, Thomas had not much more than half crossed the state, from which he returned to Nashville to take steamer for Eastport. He is possessed of excellent judgment, great coolness and honesty, but he is not good in a pursuit. He also reported his troops fagged, and that it was necessary to equip up. This report and a determination to give the enemy no rest determined me to use his surplus troops elsewhere. Accordingly, on the 26th of January, Grant directed Thomas to forward A. J. Smith's division to Canby, and three thousand cavalry to Vicksburg. Canby, meanwhile, had received his orders to move from the Gulf of Mexico towards Montgomery and Selma. On the 18th of January, the general-in-chief instructed him to make an independent campaign, looking to the capture of Mobile first, if the job does not promise to be too long a one, and Montgomery and Selma, and the destruction of all roads, machine-shops, and stores the ma
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
as adm. to the ch. 4 Sept. 1774. J. Dolle—from Cambridge, at Wid. Cooke's—d. 7 Jan. 1776, a. 18 mos. See Wyman's Charlestown, 236-37, groups 17, 19 and 33. 4. Aaron, s. of Ephraim (2), and w. Elizabeth o. c. 8 Nov. 1767. (She was Elizabeth Mullett, m. 24 July, 1766—Paige; Wyman. ) Had Aaron, bap. 8 Nov. 1767—b. 12 Jan. 1767; John, b. 18, bap. 23 Oct. 1768, d. 24 May, 1770, a. 19 mos.; Elizabeth, b. 25 Feb., bap. 4 Mar. 1770; (Sarah, b. 1772—Paige); John, b. 3, bap. 8 May, 1774; Mary, b. 26 Jan., bap. 2 Feb. 1777—perhaps the Mary, 2d, m. Homer Sawtell, 1 Aug. 1808; Rebecca, b. 14, bap. 20 June, 1779. Elizabeth the w. d. 8 Apr. 1808, a. 62. Ephraim, a son of Aaron —omitted by Paige—bap. 19 Aug. 1781. 5. Ephraim, s. of Ephraim (3), had child (Hannah ), b. 15 Sept. 1778; a child (Ephraim ), b. 1780; Isaac, a son, m. Mary Cutter of Charlestown, 15 Nov. 1804—Cutter (par. 49), and d. 12 Dec. 1815, a. 34; Jazaniah, a son, m. Elizabeth Hall, 26 June, 1806 (d. 1846— Paige)
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—the war on the Rapidan. (search)
on the banks of that river before going to seek another battlefield in Pennsylvania. We shall then return to the operations of which the Mississippi was the theatre during the first six months of 1863. These operations, which were initiated by the Federals in the midst of extraordinary difficulties and terminated by the capitulation of Vicksburg, are so well linked together that we should be loath to interrupt their recital. This will occupy a part of this volume. It was on the 26th of January that General Hooker assumed command of the Army of the Potomac. The President of the republic had not entrusted him with this command without some anxiety. The manner in which he had criticised his superior officers caused Mr. Lincoln to fear that he might not be able to secure that passive obedience from his new subordinates which is so essential to success, and of which he had himself failed to set an example. General Halleck, whom he had never spared, was secretly hostile to him.
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
the Mississippi in the States of Missouri and Arkansas. In the preceding volume we left the Federal army under Blunt, after the victory of Prairie Grove, masters of the north-western part of the latter State, occupying a strong position among the Ozark Mountains, covering Missouri, into which State the Confederates dare no longer venture, and pushing reconnoissances as far as the borders of Arkansas. The Union general continues to menace his adversary in this direction, and on the 26th of January one of his detachments of infantry, scarcely numbering one hundred men, arrives suddenly at Van Buren, and succeeds in taking possession of a steamer with three hundred Confederate soldiers on board. Hindman, on his part, has fallen back upon Little Rock, where the largest portion of his army is concentrated. The forces he brings back from his unlucky campaign against Blunt only represent one-third of this army. Thanks to the venturesome disposition of Arkansas planters, accustomed t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
rica, and duties to be collected in its ports. He would, thus obtain an American fund for a civil list, and concentre the power of government, where Grenville looked only for revenue. He expected his dismissal if Chatham regained health; and he also saw the clearest prospect of advancement by setting his colleagues at defiance. He therefore prepared to solve the questions of Asia and America in his own way; and trod the ground which he had chosen with fearless audacity. On the twenty-sixth day of January, the House of Commons, in Committee of Supply, considered the estimates for the land forces and garrisons in the Plantations. Grenville seized the opportunity to declaim on the repeal De Guerchy to the Duke of Choiseul, 27 Jan. 1767. of the Stamp Act. He enforced the necessity of relieving Great Britain from a burden which the Colonies ought to bear, and which with contingencies exceeded £ 400,000; reminding the country gentlemen that this sum was nearly equal to one shilling
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 39: (search)
triot was in earnest. Since Great Britain persisted in enforcing her Revenue Act, he knew no remedy but American Independence. Lord North, though he feared to strike, wished to intimidate. He would not allow a Petition from the Council of Massachusetts Cavendish Debates, i. 185, &c. for the Repeal of Townshend's Act to be referred with the other American papers; nor would he receive a Petition which denied that the Act of Henry the Eighth extended to the Colonies; and on the twenty-sixth of January after a delay of many weeks, he asked the House of Commons to agree with the Resolves and Address of the House of Lords. Parliamentary History, XVI. 485, &c. Ms. Letters and Diary of W. S. Johnson; Cavendish Debates, i. 191 &c. Thomas Pownall to S. Cooper, 30 Jan. 1769. T. Whately to Hutchinson, 11 Feb. 1769. No lawyer, said Dowdeswell, will justify them; none but the House of Lords who think only of their dignity, could have originated them. Suppose, said Edmund Burke, you do c
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 19: (search)
is seen in the field, the most obnoxious of the leaders seized, and a pardon Chap. XIX.} 1775. Jan. proclaimed for all others, government will come off victorious, and with less opposition than was expected a few months ago. On the twenty-sixth of January the patriot Jan. 26. Abraham Ten Broeck, of the New York assembly, moved to take into consideration the proceedings of the continental congress; but though he was ably seconded by Philip Schuyler, by George Clinton, and by the larger nuJan. 26. Abraham Ten Broeck, of the New York assembly, moved to take into consideration the proceedings of the continental congress; but though he was ably seconded by Philip Schuyler, by George Clinton, and by the larger number of the members who were of Dutch descent, the vote was lost by a majority of one. Of the eleven who composed the majority, eight had been of that committee of correspondence, who in their circular letter to the other colonies, had advised a congress; and Jauncey, a member of the committee of fifty-one, had been present when their letter of May in favor of a congress, was unanimously approved. The assembly, now in its seventh year, had long since ceased to represent the people; yet the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
thousand four hundred and eighteen men, were to be prepared for embarkation; less to act hostilely against the Americans, than to encourage the friends of government. In the house of commons, the various petitions in behalf of America, including those from London and Bristol, were consigned to a committee of oblivion, and ridiculed as already dead in law. Hayley, of London, rebuked the levity of the house. The rejection of the petitions of the trading interests, said he, on the twenty-sixth of January, must drive on a civil war with America. The Americans, argued Chap. XX.} 1775. Jan. Jenkinson, ought to submit to every act of the English legislature. England, said Burke, is like the archer that saw his own child in the hands of the adversary, against whom he was going to draw his bow. Fox charged upon North, that the country was on the point of being involved in a civil war by his incapacity. North complained: The gentleman blames all my administration; yet he defended and
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