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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Historical papers (search)
n his hand. On one occasion, when at supper, his, wife complained that she had no tin dishes; and, as there were none to be obtained nearer than Boston, he started on foot in the evening, travelled through the woods to the city, and returned with his ware by sunrise the next morning, passing over a distance of between sixty and seventy miles. The tradition of his strange habits, feats of strength, and wicked practical jokes is still common in his native town. On the morning of the 29th of the eighth month he was engaged in taking home his horse, which, according to his custom, he had turned into his neighbor's rich clover field the evening previous. By the gray light of dawn he saw a long file of men marching silently towards the town. He hurried back to the village and gave the alarm by firing a gun. Previous to this, however, a young man belonging to a neighboring town, who had been spending the night with a young woman of the village, had met the advance of the war-party, and, t
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)
. 1782; Esther, bap. do. 2 Jan. 1785, d. in First Parish, 5 Aug. 1785; Esther Winship, b. 2 Nov., bap.—Nov. 1786, First Parish, m. N. K. Lombard; Charlotte A., b. 11, bap. 18 Oct. 1789, First Parish, m. S. B. Morse; Amos and Harriet (twins), b. 29 Aug. and bap. Second Pct. 2 Sept. 1792—Harriet m. Joshua Cheever; Amos, b. 15 Aug. 1794, dead in 1842—no heirs; Emily, m. Levi Ingols. Ammi the father was a private soldier in the Revolutionary Army, and d. (see Cutter Hist. ) 28 June, 1830; his wifChas., 995, 996. (His father-in-law Isaac was chosen deacon of Medford ch. 24 Mar. 1767. See Brooks's Hist., 225, 560; Wyman's Chas., 996.) 2. Amos, bro. of Isaac (1), and son of Elisha and Sarah (Abbot) Warren, of Weston, had Elizabeth, b. 29 Aug., bap. 4 Sept. 1774— prob. the infant of Amos, funeral 22 Aug. 1775; Elizabeth, b. 22, bap. 29 June, 1777, the Eliza of Chas. who m. Thomas Russell, Jr., 21 Dec. 1800; Amos, b. 22, bap. 27 June, 1779; Sarah Abbot, bap. 19 Aug. 1781; another Sa
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Maryland. (search)
he defeat, and the promptness with which the army again took the field under McClellan, did not allow time to all the corps commanders to ascertain these losses with any precision. We have only those of Siegel, which amounted to one thousand and eighty-three men. As his corps was composed of only three small divisions out of the sixteen which were engaged during those few days, Pope's losses may be rated, without exaggeration, in the neighborhood of fifteen thousand men. The battle of the 29th and 30th of August is sometimes designated by the name of Groveton. Although this appellation is more proper, we have retained the name of Manassas, which has generally been adopted by the victors. Some Federal authors call it the second battle of Bull Run; but we have thought it better to apply this designation exclusively to the battle of July 21, 1861, which was the only one really fought on the borders of that stream. Chapter 3: Harper's Ferry. THE excitement in Washington wa
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Notes. (search)
to detect some errors in this account, which we hasten to rectify. The first relates to certain movements of Longstreet's corps during the afternoon of the 29th of August. We said that that general, taking advantage of the inactivity of Porter's corps, which was opposed to him, had sent Hood's division to Jackson's relief, whoement which, as will be seen, was interrupted by darkness. While waiting for a second edition to correct the few pages we have devoted to the events of the 29th of August, we give a summary of what took place on that day at the left wing of the Federals or the right wing of the Confederates; that is to say, of the facts bearing: Longstreet, arriving from Gainesville with General Lee, and following the Warrenton turnpike, reached an elevated position to the right of Jackson on the 29th of August, between ten and eleven o'clock in the morning. He brought with him, in the order we enumerate them, the following provisional divisions: Hood (two brigades)
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
n a position to support Negley, but the two other divisions of the Fourteenth corps did not leave Trenton, where they had been for the last three days. A like movement was simultaneously accomplished by General McCook. On the 8th he was massing his corps in the vicinity of Valley Head, and the two brigades of Carlin and Heg of Davis' division were occupying the eastern side of Winston's Gap. Stanley, having resumed the command of the cavalry which had crossed at Caperton's Ferry on the 29th of August, was crossing Lookout Mountain and penetrating into the small valleys which empty their streams into the Chattooga River. On the next morning Carlin and Heg, closely following him, were occupying, the one Alpine and the other Broomtown. This double demonstration was useless, since the result which Rosecrans was expecting from it had been obtained even before the demonstration was accomplished. As early as the 8th, Wagner, who was posted on the left bank of the Tennessee, and whose
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
dwelt in at their first coming into orderly, fair, and well-built houses, well furnished many of them, together with Orchards filled with goodly fruit trees, and gardens with variety of flowers. Johnson's Wonder working Providence, Chap. XXI. In 1643 was formed the Consederation of the four Colonies of Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Massachusetts, the commissioners of the last three named signing the twelve articles May 19th, and the government of Plymouth ratifying the same August 29th. May 10th, the thirty towns of Massachusetts were distributed in the four Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Norfolk, and Suffolk, each containing a regiment, the chief commander over which had the rank of a Lieutenant, and the second in command was a Sergeant-Major. The Water-Town Band was led by Capt. Jenings William Jenison, whose name was sometimes written Jenings (see p. 41 n. 3). He was chosen Ensign to Captain Patrick, August 16, 1631, which office he held until March 9, 1636-7, whe
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ly upon confidence in each other's fidelity and resolution, bound themselves in the presence of God, by the word of a Christian, that if, before the end of September, an order, of the court should legally transfer the whole government, together with the patent, they would themselves pass the seas to inhabit and continue in New England. Two days after this covenant had been executed, the subject was again brought before the court; a serious and long continued debate ensued, and on the twenty-ninth of August a general consent appeared, by the erection of hands, that the government and patent should be settled in New England. This vote, by which the commercial corporation became the germ of an independent commonwealth, was simply a decision of the question, where the future meetings of the company should be held; it was sanctioned by the best legal advice; its lawfulness was at the time not questioned by the privy council, at a later day, was expressly affirmed by Sawyer, the attorney
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
the warm fire, that shall be kept blazing all the night long. The shades of our braves that have fallen in war, have gone so deep into the earth that they never can be heard calling for revenge.—I place a stone on their graves, said Pieskaret, that no one may move their bones. With greater sincerity, the Abenakis of Maine, touched by the charities of Silleri, had solicited missionaries. Conversion to Catholic Christianity would establish their warlike tribes as a wakeful barrier 1646 Aug. 29. against New England; and, in August, 1646, Father Gabriel Dreuillettes, first of Europeans, made the long Relation 1647, p. 176 to 193. and painful journey from the St. Lawrence to the sources of the Kennebec, and, descending that stream to its mouth, in a bark canoe continued his roamings on the open sea along the coast. The cross was already planted there,—raised by the disciples of St. Francis of Assisi over their humble lodge near the Chap. XX.} mouth of the Penobscot. After a sho
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
was busy in constructing canoes on Lake George; and immediately Frontenac himself placed the hatchet in the hands of his allies, and, with the tomahawk in his own grasp, old as he was, chanted the war-song, and danced the war-dance On the twenty-ninth of August, it was said that an army had reached Lake Champlain; but, on the second of September, the spies could observe no trail. The projected attack by land was defeated by divisions,—Leisler charging Winthrop of Connecticut with treachery, andstumps of trees, and on the north and west bordered on the illimitable, unbroken wilderness, which stretched far away to the White Mountains, and beyond them, and, by its very depth, seemed a bulwark against invasion. On the night of the twenty-ninth of August, the evening prayers had been said in each family, and the whole village fearlessly resigned itself to sleep. That night, Aug 29. the band of invaders slept quietly in the near forest. At daybreak, they assumed the order of battle; Rou
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 5: (search)
ve instantly withdrawn from the island; and Washington sent him incessant messages to do so. On Honyman's hill he was wasting strength in raising batteries which were too remote to be of use, and could be easily turned; more than half his army was composed of militia, who saw that the expedition had failed, and began to go home. There remained in the American camp less than six thousand men; and a retreat had now to be conducted in the presence of regular troops, superior Chap. V.} 1778. Aug. 29. in numbers. It began in the night of the twentyeighth. The next day the British attempted to get round the American right wing, and thus cut off every chance of escape. On that side Greene, almost within sight of his native town, held the command. Supported by young Laurens, he changed the defence into an attack, and drove the enemy in disorder back to their strong post on Quaker hill. In the engagement the British lost at least two hundred and sixty men; the Americans, forty-nine les
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