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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Northrop, Lucius Bellinger 1811- (search)
Northrop, Lucius Bellinger 1811- Military officer; born in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 8, 1811; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1829; later practised medicine in Charleston; and was restored to the army when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. During the Civil War he was commissary-general of the Confedrate army, and made Richmond his headquarters till within a short time before the surrender of Lee.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pike, James Sheperd 1811-1882 (search)
Pike, James Sheperd 1811-1882 Diplomatist; born in Calais, Me., Sept. 8, 1811; received a common school education; was associate editor of the New York Tribune in 1850-60; exercised a strong influence in uniting the anti-slavery parties in his native State: and was minister to Holland in 1861-66. His publications include A prostrate State; The restoration of the currency; The financial crisis, its evils and their remedy; Horace Greeley in 1872; The New Puritan; and The first blows of the Civil War. He died in Calais. Me., Nov. 24, 1882.