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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 345 345 Browse Search
The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign: May 1 - September 8, 1864., Part I: General Report. (ed. Maj. George B. Davis, Mr. Leslie J. Perry, Mr. Joseph W. Kirkley) 22 22 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 13 13 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1861., [Electronic resource] 11 11 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 10 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments. 9 9 Browse Search
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865 9 9 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 8 8 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore) 8 8 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 8 8 Browse Search
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preached and prayed, and gained universal applause. When warrants arrived from England for their apprehension, they 1661 fled across the country to New Haven, where it was esteemed a crime against God to bewray the wanderer or give up the outcast. Yet such diligent search was made for them, that they never were in security. For a time they removed in secrecy from house to house: sometimes concealed themselves in a mill, sometimes in clefts of the rocks by the seaside; and for weeks to- June 24 to Aug 19. gether, and even for months, they dwelt in a cave in the forest. Great rewards were offered for their apprehension; Indians as well as English were urged to scour the woods in quest of their hiding-place, as men hunt for the holes of foxes. When the zeal of the search was nearly over, they retired to a little village on the Sound; till at last they escaped by night to an appointed place of refuge in Hadley, and the solitudes of the most beautiful valley of New England gave shel
been compelled to surrender his English arms, and pay an onerous tribute, was summoned to submit to an 1674. examination, and could not escape suspicion. The wrath of his tribe was roused, and the informer was murdered. The murderers in their turn were identified, seized, tried by a jury, of which one half were 1675. June. Indians, and, on conviction, were hanged. The young men of the tribe panted for revenge; without delay eight or nine of the English were slain in or about Swansey; June 24. and the alarm of war spread through the colonies. Thus was Philip hurried into his rebellion; and he is reported to have wept Callender's Century Sermon. as he heard that a white man's blood had been shed. The authorities on King Phillip's war are, Present State of N. E., and four other Tracts, first published in 1675 and 1676, and now, in 1833 and 1836, reprinted by S. G. Drake; Increase Mather's Hist. of Troubles with the Indians; Hubbard's Indian Wars; Church's Hist. of King
ical evidence, and must be taken as paramount authority on the purposes of the Grand Rebellion in Virginia. The late expenditures of public money had not June 5-24. been accounted for. Compare Culpepper, in Chalmers, 356. High debates arose on the wrongs of the indigent, who were oppressed by taxes alike unequal and exorbitrgesses and council in transmitting to England warm commendations of the zeal, loyalty, and patriotism of Bacon, and the ameliorating legisla- Chap. XIV.} 1676. June 24, O. S. tion of the assembly was ratified. That better legislation was completed, according to the new style of computation, on the fourth day of July, Hening, ii. 363. June twenty-fourth, old style; that is, July 4, 1676. 1676, just one hundred years, to a day, before the congress of the United States, adopting the declaration which had been framed by a statesman of Virginia, who, like Bacon, was popularly inclined, began a new era in the history of man. The eighteenth century in Virgi
added to the security of property. In a few days, 1664 Sept 24 Fort Orange, now named Albany, from the Scottish title of the duke of York, quietly surrendered; and the league with the Five Nations was renewed. Early in October, Oct 1 the Dutch and Swedes on the Delaware capitulated; and for the first time the whole Atlantic coast of the old thirteen states was in possession of England. Our country had obtained geographical unity. The dismemberment of New Netherland ensued on June 23, 24 its surrender. The duke of York had already, two months before the conquest, assigned to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, both proprietaries of Carolina, the land between the Hudson and the Delaware. In honor of Carteret, the territory, with nearly the same bounds as at present, except on the north, received the name of New Jersey. If to fix boundaries and grant the soil, could constitute a state, the duke of York gave political existence to a commonwealth. Its moral character was mo