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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1 1 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 1 1 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 1 1 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 10: plantation-life. (search)
that galled his neck like an iron yoke. Mrs. Johnston says, in one letter: He is almost in despair, and often says he feels like a drowning man with his hands tied; but he tries to keep up his spirits. And again, writing in October, 1849, she says: Our home is now a beautiful place, and I have become so attached to it that I shall grieve a great deal when we must leave it. Your father looks care-worn and sad. You would be astonished at the great change in him since you last saw him (April, 1847). From a fleshy, stout man he has grown quite thin, and, considering his frame, slender. It would not have been strange if disappointment had tinged with bitterness a nature so aspiring; but, if it was so, it took the form of an almost silent self-reproach, which accepted with stoical firmness both the consequences of his own mistakes and the hard decrees of a seemingly inexorable destiny. It is proof of the strength of his principles and the sweetness of his temper, as well as of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coffin, Levi -1877 (search)
Coffin, Levi -1877 Philanthropist; born near New Garden, N. C., Oct. 28, 1798; early became interested in the welfare of the slaves in the South; financially aided on their way to Canada thousands of fugitive slaves, including Eliza Harris, who later became widely known through Uncle Tom's cabin. In April, 1847, he went to Cincinnati, O., and opened a free-labor goods store, which he operated successfully for many years. For thirty years he was president of the secret society known as the underground railroad, the purpose of which was to aid slaves in their escape by passing them on from member to member. He died in Avondale, O., Sept. 16, 1877.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus 1814-1876 (search)
Hammond, Marcus Claudius Marcellus 1814-1876 Military officer; born in Newberry district, S. C., Dec. 12, 1814; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1836; promoted first lieutenant in November, 1839; served during a part of the war with Mexico as additional paymaster; resigned in April, 1847, owing to failing health. He published A critical history of the Mexican War. He died in Beech Island, S. C., Jan. 23, 1876.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisconsin, (search)
itchell's bank at Milwaukee established......1839 The Wisconsin phalanx, a community on Fourier's system, established at Ceresco, now Ripon......May, 1844 Mormon colony, an offshoot from Nauvoo, led by James Jesse Strang, is founded on White River at Voree......1845 Enabling act for the State of Wisconsin passed by Congress......Aug. 6, 1846 State constitution prohibiting banks and banking, framed by a convention at Madison, Oct. 5–Dec. 16, 1846, is rejected by the people......April, 1847 Troops from Michigan and Wisconsin leave Detroit by boat for Vera Cruz, enlisted in the Mexican War......April 24, 1847 First railroad charter in Wisconsin granted to the Milwaukee and Waukesha Railroad Company......1847 Convention assembles at Madison, Dec. 15, 1847; frames a constitution and adjourns, Feb. 1, 1848. Constitution ratified by a popular vote of 16,442 to 6,149......March 13, 1848 Wisconsin admitted into the Union by act approved......May 29, 1848 First Sta
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Jenny Lind Goldschmidt. (search)
d an engagement to sing in London. Her departure from her native city was attended by most extraordinary demonstrations. Her last concert in Stockholm was given in aid of a charitable institution founded by herself, and the tickets were sold at auction at prices unheard of before in frugal Sweden. Many thousand persons, it is said, were upon the wharf when she sailed, and she went on board the steamer amid the cheers of the people and the music of military bands. She reached London in April, 1847, and soon began her rehearsals at the Queen's Theatre. When her voice was first heard in that spacious edifice at a rehearsal, no one was so enchanted as Lablache, the celebrated basso. Every note, he exclaimed, is like a pearl She was pleased with the simile, and when they had become better acquainted, she reminded him of it in a very agreeable manner. She came up to him one morning at rehearsal, and said to him:-- Will you do me the favor, Signor Lablache, to lend me your hat
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
Congress as a treatment of the slavery question, the second article being a rejoinder to the Atlas, Courier, Feb. 1 and 15, 1848. His contributions at this period to journals and magazines on literary or legal topics were few and brief, chiefly notices of books which were prompted by a personal interest in the authors. The following are identified: Reviews of M. B. Sampson's Rationale of Crime, Law Reporter, Boston, Dec. 1846, vol. IX. pp. 377, 378; of Sedgwick on Damages, Ibid. April, 1847, p. 50 of J. G. Marvin's Legal Biogaphy, Ibid. p. 552; of S. ZZZ1. Chase's argument in Jones v. Van Zandt, Ibid. p. 553; of W. S. Tyler's Germania and Agricola of Tacitus, Boston Whig, Aug. 23, 1847. the founders of the Massachusetts Quarterly, the first number of which appeared in December 1847, The last number appeared three years later. agreed upon Sumner as the managing editor, but he declined the post. Theodore Parker strenuously urged his acceptance, and it was also Emerson's
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
, but finally accepted the post of commissary-general of prisoners of war. After the close of hostilities he resided at Fredericksburg, Va., except four years when in charge of a large estate in Texas. He was a member of the board of visitors of the United States military academy in 1884. His death occurred at Fredericksburg in 1897. Brigadier-General James E. Slaughter Brigadier-General James E. Slaughter, a native of Virginia, entered the military service of the United States in April, 1847, as second lieutenant of Voltigeurs. He was transferred to the First artillery in June, 1848, and was an officer of that command until the formation of the Confederate States, with promotion in 1852 to the rank of first lieutenant. He received a commission as first lieutenant, corps of artillery, Confederate States army, and became inspector-general on the staff of General Beauregard after the transfer of the latter to the department of Alabama and West Florida. After the bombardment a
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Stop the Runaways--$1000 reward. (search)
ary of the U. S. Army, by a correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy: Ulysses S. Grant was appointed Cadet from Ohio in 1839, being then seventeen years of age, and graduated in 1843, and was commissioned 1st July, 1843, Brevet 2d Lieutenant 4th Infantry United States Army. Transferred to 7th Infantry; in 4th Infantry again, November, 1845; Brevet 1st Lieutenant "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Molino del Rey," 8th September, declined; Regimental Quartermaster, April, 1847; 1st Lieutenant, September, 1847; Brevet Captain "for gallant and meritorious conduct in the battle of Chepultepec, 13th September, 1847;" Full Captain, August, 1858; resigned 31st July, 1854. Since his resignation from the army nothing is known by me of his occupation until the present war. I only know now that he is the most formidable man that is opposed to us, by odds. Grant is now in his 42d year, quite young to be at the head of all the armies in the United States; but I believ