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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1 1 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 1 1 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Allan Pinkerton, The spy in the rebellion; being a true history of the spy system of the United States Army during the late rebellion, revealing many secrets of the war hitherto not made public, compiled from official reports prepared for President Lincoln , General McClellan and the Provost-Marshal-General . 1 1 Browse Search
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army 1 1 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865 1 1 Browse Search
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career. 1 1 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Point, battle of (search)
nant Stiles. They met the British advancing at a point about 7 miles from Baltimore. Two of Asquith's riflemen, concealed in a hollow, fired upon Ross and Cockburn as they were riding ahead of the troops, when the former fell from his horse, mortally wounded, and died in the arms of his favorite aide, Duncan McDougall, before his bearers reached the boats. The command now devolved on Col. A. A. Brooke. Under his direction the entire invading force pressed forward, and, at about 2 P. M. (Sept. 12), met the first line of General Stricker's main body, when a severe John Stricker. combat began. The battle raged for twohours, when the superior force of the British compelled the Americans to fall back towards Baltimore; and at Worthington's Mill, about half a mile in front of the intrenchments cast up by the citizens, they were joined by General Winder and his forces. The British halted and bivouacked for the night on the battle-field. Meanwhile, the British fleet had prepared to
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quebec. (search)
The camp below the Montmorency was broken up (Sept. 8), and the attention of Montcalm was diverted from the real designs of the English by seeming preparations to attack his lines. Even De Bougainville, whom Montcalm had sent up the river with 1,500 men to guard against an attack above the town, had no suspicions of their intentions, so secretly and skilfully had the affair been managed. The troops had been withdrawn from the Isle of Orleans and placed on shipboard, and on the evening of Sept. 12 the vessels moved up the stream several miles above the intended landing-place, which was at a cove at the foot of a narrow ravine, a short distance above the town, that led up to the Plains of Abraham. At midnight the troops left the ships, and in flat-bottomed boats, with muffled oars, went down to the designated landing-place, where they disembarked. At dawn (Sept. 13) Lieutenant-Colonel Howe (afterwards Gen. Sir William Howe) led the van up the tangled ravine in the face of a sharp f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Savannah, Ga. (search)
s from all his outposts to the defence of Savannah, and 300 negroes from the neighboring plantations were pressed into the service in strengthening the fortifications around the town. Very soon, under the direction of Major Moncrief, thirteen redoubts and fifteen batteries, with connecting lines of intrenchments were completed, on which seventy-six cannon were mounted. Before them a strong abatis was laid. Meanwhile Lincoln had marched from Charleston, and reached the Savannah River on Sept. 12; and on the same day French troops landed below Savannah and marched up to within 3 miles of the town. Lincoln approached, and on Sept. 23 the combined armies commenced a siege. D'Estaing had demanded a surrender of the post on the 16th, when Prevost, hourly expected reinforcements of 800 men from Beaufort, asked for a truce, which was unwisely granted. The reinforcements came, and then Prevost gave a defiant refusal. The siege, begun on Sept. 23, lasted until Oct. 8, with varying suc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Schley, Winfield Scott 1839- (search)
the Santiago fight, which were considered by his friends exceedingly unjust. Personally he took no notice of the reflections upon his professional conduct, declaring that the history had been made, and the proofs of it were in the public documents, until July 22, 1901, when he requested a court of inquiry into his conduct. His request was at once granted, and a court was appointed, comprised of Admiral Dewey, Rear-Admirals Benham and Ramsay. The court began its inquiry in Washington on Sept. 12, and on Dec. 13, 1901, reported its proceedings and the testimony taken, with a full and detailed statement of all the pertinent facts, which it deems to be established, together with its opinion and recommendation in the premises. The text of the opinion and the recommendation are as follows: Opinion of Court Commodore Schley, in command of the Flying Squadron, should have proceeded with utmost despatch off Cienfuegos and should have maintained a close blockade of that port.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ohn Greenleaf Whittier, poet, born 1807, dies at Hampton Falls, N. H.......Sept. 7, 1892 Ex-Senator Francis Kernan, born 1816, dies at Utica, N. Y.......Sept. 7, 1892 Lieutenant Peary and party arrive at St. John's, Newfoundland, on the steamer Kite, sent to the Arctic regions in search of them......Sept. 11, 1892 Cabin passengers of the Normannia prevented from landing at Fire Island, by injunction restraining the health authorities from using the island for quarantine purposes, Sept. 12, injunction dissolved, and two regiments of National Guard and Naval Reserves ordered out by Governor Flower; passengers are finally suffered to land......Sept. 13, 1892 Generals Weaver and Field accept the nomination of the People's party......Sept. 17, 1892 Gen. John Pope, born 1823, dies at Sandusky, O.......Sept. 23, 1892 Patrick S. Gilmore, leader of Gilmore's band, born 1829, dies at St. Louis......Sept. 24, 1892 Grover Cleveland's letter of acceptance......Sept. 26, 1892
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), California (search)
rolled. Casey is taken from jail, May 18; tried and hanged with another man named Cora, convicted of murder......May 22, 1856 Discovery of gold mines on the Frazer River......May 1, 1858 First overland mail west leaves St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 16, 1858; arrives at San Francisco......Oct. 10, 1858 Forty-two prisoners escape from State prison in open day, and 100 others following are fired upon and driven back......June 27, 1859 David C. Broderick wounded by David S. Terry in a duel Sept. 12; dies......Sept. 16, 1859 First pony express leaves Sacramento for St. Joseph, Mo.......April 4, 1860 A Japanese embassy of seventy-two men are the guests of San Francisco......March 29, 1860 California regiment, Col. E. D. Baker, organized......April 21, 1861 Citizens' meeting in San Francisco declares for Union......May 11, 1861 Daily overland mail established from the Missouri River to San Francisco over the central route to replace that through northern Texas, New Mexico,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
y to the north having been made by George Mountjoy, and the line fixed at lat. 43° 49′ 12″, its eastern terminus on White Head Island in Penobscot Bay, Massachusetts appoints four commissioners, who open a court at Pemaquid and proceed to organize the additional territory......May, 1674 Duke of York takes a new patent from the King, and commissions Sir Edmund Andros governor of both New York and Sagadahoc......June 22, 1674 Indian depredations and massacres in King Philip's War begin, Sept. 12; attack Saco, Sept. 18, and burn Scarborough......Sept. 20, 1675 King by council confirms the decision of a commission which had been appointed and reported that the right of soil in New Hampshire and Maine probably belonged not to Massachusetts colony, but to the terre-tenants ......1676 For the second time (the first in 1674) the Dutch capture the French fortification at Penobscot, but are soon driven out by the English......1676 Indians attack Casco, burn Arrowsick and Pemaquid,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wolfe, James 1727- (search)
Wolfe, James 1727- Military officer; born in Westerham, Kent, England, Jan. 2, 1727; distinguished himself in the army when he was only twenty years of age; and was quartermaster-general in the expedition against Rochefort in 1757. At the secondcapture of Louisburg by the English, in 1758, he acquired such fame that Pitt placed him at the head of the expedition against Quebec in 1759, with the rank of major-general, though only thirty-three years of age. On the evening of Sept. 12, Wolfe, who had just recovered from a serious attack of fever, embarked with his main army on the St. Lawrence, above Point Levi, and floated up the river with the flood-tide. He was preparing for an attack upon the French the next day. The evening was warm and starlit. Wolfe was in better spirits than usual, and at the evening mess, with a glass of wine in his hand, and by the light of a lantern, he sang the little campaign song beginning: Why, soldiers, why Should we be melancholy, boys? Why,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
Steamship Tempest, Anchor line, 150 persons on board, never heard from after leaving port......Feb. 26, 1857 Steamship Louisiana, from New Orleans to Galveston, burned near Galveston; fifty-five lives lost......May 31, 1857 Steamer J. W. Harris sunk in collision with steamer Metropolis in Long Island Sound; fourteen lives lost......Aug. 8, 1857 Steamer Central America, from Havana to New York, springs a leak in a heavy storm, Sept. 8; 100 persons are taken off by a passing vessel, Sept. 12, and soon after she sinks, carrying down over 400 persons......Sept. 12, 1857 American ship Pomona, Liverpool to New York, wrecked on Blackwater Bank, the master mistaking the Blackwater for the Tuskar light; only twenty-four out of 419 persons saved......night of April 27-28, 1859 Steamship Indian, from Liverpool to Portland, strikes on Seal Ledge, about 65 miles east of Halifax, and breaks in two amidships; twenty-four lives lost......Nov. 21, 1859 American emigrant vessel Lun
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 11: (search)
er. Led by that singleness of purpose which guided him throughout the war, and unelated, except by a just gratification that his efforts in the cause had borne fruitful results, and had brought him heart to heart with his comrades and countrymen, he at once directed his whole care to the reorganization of the troops in the field, to the preparation for new successes, and the advancement of the strategic frontier beyond the Potomac. Throwing forward a portion of his troops, by the 12th of September, he moved his headquarters to Fairfax Court-House, in order to be nearer to his outer lines, which now stretched from Springfield, below Alexandria, on the right, to the little falls on the Potomac, above Georgetown, on the left, enclosing the Federal forces within a narrow circle, from which they made their observations and occasional sorties. For the purpose of watching our camps, and of gaining information of what transpired there, a balloon was much used by the enemy, often in the
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