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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coffee, John 1772- (search)
Coffee, John 1772- Surveyor; born in Nottaway county, Va., in 1772. In December, 1812, he was colonel of Tennessee volunteers under Jackson, and was with him John Coffee. in all his wars with the Creek Indians. He was with him also in his expedition to Pensacola (q. v.), and in the defence of New Orleans. In 1817 he was surveyor of public lands. He died near Florence, Ala., July 7, 1833.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emory, William Helmsley, 1811-1887 (search)
Emory, William Helmsley, 1811-1887 Military officer; born in Queen Anne's county, Md., Sept. 9, 1811; graduated at West Point in 1831. He was appointed lieutenant of the topographical engineers July 7, 1833; was aide to General Kearny in California in 1846-47, and was made lieutenant-colonel, Sept. 30, 1847. He was astronomer to the commission to determine the boundary between the United States and Mexico. He was serving as captain of cavalry in Mexico when the Civil War broke out, and brought his command into Kansas in good order. In May, 1861, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the 6th Cavalry; served in the campaign of 1862 in the Army of the Potomac, and was made brigadier-general of volunteers in March of that year. He did good service under Banks in Louisiana, and under Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley. He was made colonel of the 5th Cavalry in the fall of 1863; in March, 1865, was brevetted brigadier-general and major-general of the United States army; and in 1876 was