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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beaver , James Addams 1837 - (search)
Beaver, James Addams, 1837-
Military officer; born in Millerstown, Pa., Oct. 21, 1837; was graduated at Jefferson College in 1856; entered the army in 1831; was shot through the body at Chancellorsville, in the side at Petersburg, and lost a leg at Ream's Station; brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers; was elected governor of Pennsylvania as a Republican in 1887; and was a member of President McKinley's commission to investigate the conduct of the War Department during the American-Spanish War.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Benham , Henry W. 1817 -1884 (search)
Benham, Henry W., 1817-1884
Military officer; born in Cheshire, Conn., in 1817; was graduated at West Point, first in his class, in 1837.
He served under General Taylor in the war with Mexico, and was wounded in the battle of Buena. Vista.
Early in the Civil War he was active in western Virginia, and afterwards on the South Carolina coast.
He assisted in the capture of Fort Pulaski; and in 1863-64 he commanded an engineer brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
He was brevetted brigadier-general for services in the campaign ending with the surrender of Lee, and major-general (March, 1865) for meritorious services in the rebellion.
He died in New York, June 1, 1884.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blair , Montgomery 1813 -1883 (search)
Blair, Montgomery, 1813-1883
Statesman; born in Franklin county, Ky., May 10, 1813; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1836, and served a while in the 2d Artillery in Florida, against the Seminole Indians.
He resigned in 1836; became a practising lawyer in st. Louis, Mo., in 1837; from 1839 to 1843 was United States district attorney for the district of Missouri, and was judge of the St. Louis Court of Common Pleas from 1843 to 1849.
In 1842 he was mayor of St. Louis.
President Pierce appointed him solicitor to the United States Court of Claims in 1855, but, becoming a Republican, President Buchanan removed him. Mr. Blair was counsel for the plaintiffs in the famous Dred Scott case (q. v.). He was appointed Postmaster-General in March, 1861, and served about three years. He died in Silver Spring, Md., July 27, 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blount , James H. 1837 - (search)
Blount, James H., 1837-
Legislator; born in Macon, Ga., Sept. 12. 1837.
He was elected to Congress as a Democrat in 1872, and held his seat till 1893, when he declined a renomination.
At the conclusion of his last term the House suspended its proceedings that his associates might formally testify their appreciation of his worth.
In his last term he was chairman of the committee on foreign affairs, a post that gave him a wide knowledge of American relations with other countries.
In March, 1893, President Cleveland appointed him a special commissioner to visit Honolulu and report on the conditions which led to the overthrow of the kingdom of Hawaii and the establishment of an American protectorate over the islands.
The first result of his investigations was an order to remove the American flag from the government house, and for the withdrawal of American marines from Honolulu.
These actions created much excitement in the United States, and led to the resignation of Minister S
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boggs , Charles Stewart 1811 -1888 (search)
Boggs, Charles Stewart, 1811-1888
Naval officer; born in New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 28, 1811; entered the navy in 1826; served on stations in the Mediterranean, West Indies, the coast of Africa, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific Ocean.
He was made lieutenant in 1837; promoted to commander in 1855; and in 1858 was appointed
Captain Charles Stewart Boggs. light-house inspector on the Pacific coast.
Placed in command of the gunboat Varuna, when the Civil War broke cut, he was with Admiral Farragut in the desperate fight on the Mississippi, near Forts Jackson and St. Philip.
In that contest his conduct was admirable for bravery and fortitude.
He was subsequently in command of various vessels on American and European stations, and was promoted to rear-admiral in July, 1870.
He died in New Brunswick, April 22, 1888.
Bragg, Braxton, -1876
Military officer; horn in Warren county, N. C., March 22, 1817; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1837; entered the artillery; and served in the Seminole War and in the war with Mexico, receiving for good conduct in the latter several brevets and promotions.
The last brevet was that of lieutenant-colonel, for Buena Vista.
Feb. 23, 1847.
He was made major in 1855; resigned the next year, and lived (an extensive planter) in Louisiana until the breaking out of the Civil War, when (March, 1861) he was made a brigadier-general in the Confederate army.
Made major-general in February, 1862, he took an important part in the battle of Shiloh in April.
He was made general in place of A. S. Johnson, killed; and in May succeeded Beauregard in command.
John H. Morgan, the guerilla chief, and N. B. Forrest, the leader of a strong cavalry force, had for some time (in 1862) roamed, with very little serious opposition, over Kentucky and Tennessee,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brinton , Daniel garrison 1837 -1899 (search)
Brinton, Daniel garrison, 1837-1899
Surgeon and archaeologist : born in Thornbury, Pa., May 13, 1837: was graduated at Jefferson Medical College in 1861, and successively became assistant surgeon, surgeon, and medical director in the 11th Army Corps in 1862-65.
He was editor of the Medical and surgical reporter in 1867-87; became Professor of Ethnology in the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, and Professor of American Linguistics and Archaeology in the University of Pennsylvania.
His writings include Notes on the Floridian Peninsula; American hero myths; Aboriginal American Anthology; Primer of Mayan Hicroglyphics; Religion of primitive peoples, etc. He died in Atlantic City, N. J., July 31, 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Brownlow , William Gannaway 1805 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Buffington , Adelbert Rinaldo 1837 - (search)
Buffington, Adelbert Rinaldo, 1837-
Military officer; born in Wheeling, Va., Nov. 22, 1837; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1861.
and commissioned brevet second lieutenant in the ordnance department: and was appointed chief of ordnance with the rank of brigadier-general in 1889.
From 1881 till 1892 he was in charge of the national armory at Springfield, Mass. General Buffington is the inventor of a magazine fire-arm, carriages for light and heavy ordnance, and the nitre and manganese method for bluing iron and the steel surface of small-arms.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burlingame , Anson 1820 - (search)
Burlingame, Anson, 1820-
Diplomatist; born in New Berlin, Chenango co., N. Y., Nov. 14, 1820.
His father, a farmer, removed to Seneca county, Ohio, when Anson was three years of age. Ten years later the family were in Michigan.
Anson entered the University of Michigan in 1837, and was graduated at Harvard in 1846.
He began the practice of law in Boston, and subsequently became an active member of the free soil party (q. v.), acquiring a wide reputation as an effective speaker.
In 1849-50 he was in Europe.
In 1852 he was chosen a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and became an active supporter of the American party in 1854, by which he was elected to Congress the same year.
Mr. Burlingame assisted in the formation of the Republican party in 1855-56; and he was regarded as one of the ablest debaters in Congress on that side of the House.
Severely criticising Preston S. Brooks for his attack upon Charles Sumner (q. v.), the South Carolinian challenged him to fight a duel.
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