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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stoneman, George 1822-1894 (search)
Stoneman, George 1822-1894 Military officer; born in Busti, Chautauqua co., N. Y., Aug. 8, 1822; graduated at West Point in 1846; was captain, in command of Fort Brown, Tex., in 1861; and refused to obey the order of Gen. Twiggs (q. v.) to surrender the government property to the Confederates. He chartered a steamer, evacuated the post, and proceeded to New York, where he arrived March 15. He was made major of the 1st United States Cavalry, and served in western Virginia as inspector-general until made a brigadiergeneral of volunteers and chief of cavalry, in August. He was active in the Peninsular campaign in 1862; and after the fall of General Kearny, at Chantilly, he took command of that general's division. Gen. George Stoneman. He succeeded General Heintzelman as commander of the 3d Army Corps, which he led in the battle of Fredericksburg, and was promoted to major-general in November, 1862. In the Richmond campaign, in May, 1863, he commanded a cavalry corps on raids
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
Aug. 27, 1894 Second session (268 days) adjourns......Aug. 28, 1894 Ten towns in Minnesota, six in Wisconsin, and three in Michigan totally destroyed by forest fires......August, 1894 Gen. N. P. Banks, born Jan. 30, 1816, dies at Waltham, Mass.......Sept. 1, 1894 Samuel J. Kirkwood, United States exSenator, ex-Secretary of the Interior, and war governor of Iowa, dies at Des Moines, aged eighty-one......Sept. 1, 1894 Maj.-Gen. George Stoneman, ex-governor of California, born Aug. 8, 1822, dies at Buffalo, N. Y.......Sept. 5, 1894 President Cleveland proclaims amnesty to persons convicted of polygamy under the Edmunds act......Sept. 27, 1894 Proclamation of President setting apart the Ashland forest reserve in Oregon......Sept. 28, 1894 Brig.-Gen. John P. Hawkins, commissary-general of subsistence, United States army, retired......Sept. 29, 1894 Oliver Wendell Holmes, born in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 29, 1809, dies at his residence in Boston......Oct. 7, 1894