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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Charleston, S. C. (search)
essels and appear before Charleston. Indeed, Sumter was not dead, but slumbering. On the night of Sept. 8 a portion of the men of the squadron went in thirty row-boats to take possession of Sumter. They scaled the ruins, where, as they supposed, the decimated garrison were sleeping, but were met by determined men, and repulsed. They were assailed not only by the garrison, but by neighboring batteries, a gunboat, and a ram, and lost 200 men, four boats, and three colors. Finally, on Oct. 26, perceiving the garrison mounting cannon on the southeast face of Sumter, to command Fort Wagner, Gillmore opened heavy rifled cannon on the former, which soon reduced it to an utterly untenable ruin. From that time until near the close of the year Gillmore kept up an irregular fire on Charleston, when, seeing no prospect of the fleet entering the harbor, he kept silent. When Hardee, in command of the Confederate troops at Charleston, heard of the fall of Columbia (q. v.), he perceive
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Floating batteries. (search)
Floating batteries. The first Amercan floating battery was seen in the Charles River, at Boston, in October, 1775. Washington had ordered the construction of two, to assist in the siege of the New England capital. They were armed and manned, and on Oct. 26 opened fire on the town, producing much consternation. They appear to have been made of strong planks, pierced near the water-line for oars, and further up were port-holes for musketry and the admission of light. A heavy gun was placed in each end, and upon the top were four swivels. The ensign was the pine-tree flag. Colonel Reed, writing to Colonel Moylan, on Oct. 20, 1775, said: Please to fix some particular color for a flag and a signal, by which our vessels may know each other. What do you think of a flag with a white ground, a tree in the middle, and the motto An Appeal to Heaven? This is the flag of our floating batteries. When the War of 1812-15 broke out, the subject of harbor defences occupied much of the at
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fredericksburg, battle at. (search)
ross the Potomac and give battle to the enemy, or drive him South. Your army must now move, he said, while the roads are good. Twenty-four days were spent in correspondence before the order was obeyed, McClellan complaining of a lack of men and supplies to make it prudent to move forward. At length, when October had nearly passed by and Lee's army was thoroughly rested and reorganized, and communications with Richmond were re-established, the Army of the Potomac began to cross the river (Oct. 26), 100,000 strong. The Nationals were led on the east side of the Blue Ridge, but failed to strike the retreating Confederates over the mountain in flank or to get ahead of them; and Lee pushed Longstreet's troops over the Blue Ridge to Culpeper Court-house, between the Army of the Potomac and Richmond, ready to dispute the advance of the Nationals. Quick and energetic movements were now necessary to sever and defeat, in detail, Lee's army. On Nov. 5 McClellan was relieved of command, a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Republican government. (search)
filled the city, and, joining those of New Orleans, formed a numerous assembly, in which John Milhet, his brother, Lafreni-ère, and one or two others were conspicuous. They adopted an address to the Superior Council, Oct. 25, 1768, rehearsing their grievances, and in their Petition of Rights they claimed freedom of commerce with the ports of France and America, and demanded the expulsion of Ulloa from the colony. The address was signed by nearly 600 names. It was adopted by the council (Oct. 26); and when the French flag was displayed on the public square, women and children kissed its folds, and 900 men raised it amid shouts of Long live the King of France; we will have no king but him. Ulloa fled to Havana, while the people of Louisiana made themselves a republic as an alternative to their renewed political connection with France. They elected their own treasurer, and syndics to represent the mass of the colony. They sent envoys to Paris bearing a memorial to the French monar
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mississippi, (search)
consisting of the governor and three commissioners, organized......1829 Planters' Bank chartered......Feb. 10, 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, by which the Choctaws cede the rest of their lands in Mississippi to the United States......Sept. 28, 1830 Treaty at Pontotoc Creek; the Chickasaws cede their lands in Mississippi and agree to remove from the State......Oct. 20, 1832 Convention for framing a new constitution meets at Jackson, Sept. 10, 1832, and completes its labors, Oct. 26. Constitution ratified at the next general election......1832 Appropriation made for the erection of a State-house and executive mansion at the capital......Feb. 26, 1833 Act approved incorporating the Mississippi Union Bank and providing for $15,500,000 in State stock as capital as soon as a corresponding amount in private subscriptions should come in......Jan. 21, 1837 Supplementary act authorizes an immediate issue of $5,000,000 of State stock, which was sold at a heavy disco
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Virginia, (search)
ke called Travellers' rest. Reynolds moved about 5,000 men of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Virginia against Jackson at the beginning of October, 1861. On the morning of the 2d they attacked Jackson, and were repulsed, after an engagement of seven hours, with a loss of ten men killed and thirty-two wounded. Jackson lost in picket-firing and in the trenches about 200 men. Reynolds fell back to Elkwater. Meanwhile General Kelley, who was guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, had struck (Oct. 26) the Confederates under McDonald at Romney, and, after a severe contest of two hours, routed them, capturing three cannon and a large number of prisoners. The blow given Jackson at Travellers' rest paralyzed the Confederate power in western Virginia. He left his troops (about 2,000 in number) with Col. Edward Johnson, of Georgia, and returned to that State. Reynolds had left his troops in charge of Gen. Robert H. Milroy, consisting of a single brigade, to hold the mountain passes. He s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), White Plains, battle of. (search)
an troops passed the Bronx and attacked the Americans on Chatterton's Hill. Hamilton's little battery made them recoil at first, but, being reinforced, they drove the Americans from their position. McDougall led his troops to Washington's camp, leaving the British in possession of the hill. Washington's breastworks were composed of corn-stalks covered rather hastily and lightly by earth; but they appeared so formidable that Howe dared not attack them, but waited for reinforcements. Just as they appeared a severe storm of wind and rain set in. Washington perceiving Howe's advantage, withdrew under cover of darkness, in the night of Oct. 31, behind intrenchments on the hills of North Castle, towards the Croton River. Howe did not follow; but, falling back, encamped on the heights of Fordham. The loss of the Americans in the skirmishes on Oct. 26, and the battle on the 28th, did not exceed, probably, 300 men in killed, wounded, and prisoners; that of the British was about the same.