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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 282 282 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 118 118 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 48 48 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 45 45 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 32 32 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 30 30 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 24 24 Browse Search
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. 24 24 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 20 20 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 17 17 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.40 (search)
The Virginia military Institute. [from the Richmond Dispatch, October 14, 1891.] Its Visitors and Staff—Academic and Military—1848-1861—Associates of General T. J. Jackson. Spokane falls. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Will you inform some friends of your paper who were the professors at the Virginia Military Institute in the years 1848, 1849 and 1850; also when Stonewall Jackson first entered the Institute as a professor, and what branches he taught? We have a lot of rusty Virginians out here who have lost their reckoning, several who were of the class of 1861, and left with Colonel Allan to join the Confederate army. A Subscriber frBoard as professor of natural and experimental philosophy and instructor of artillery, with the rank of major. The other information asked for is as follows: 1848.—Board of Visitors: General Corbin Braxton, president of board; General William H. Richardson, adjutant-general (exofficio); General P. C. Johnson, Philip St. Geo
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Thomas J. Jackson. (search)
n educated at West Point and was indebted to the Federal Government, was to him a farce. Who more than his own State made West Point? Who contributed to her glory as much as the men of Virginia and the south? Whose names in the wars of 1812 and 1848 live in history to-day? His allegiance was to his State. He loved it better than his fame or life, better than everything else on the face of this earth save his own honor, and anything or anybody that impeded the establishment of her sovereig., (then a part of Virginia,) January 21, 1824. At the age of eighteen he was appointed to West Point, but owing to the fact that he was poorly prepared to enter that institution he never took a high standing in his classes. He was graduated in 1848 and ordered to Mexico, where he was attached as a lieutenant to Magruder's battery. He took part in Scott's campaign from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, and was twice breveted for gallant conduct—at Cherubusco and Chapultepec—attaining the rank
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index (search)
customs of; 131 race elements of, 131; vindicated from the charge of being descended from criminals, 132; gentle lineage of—use of coat armor by, 134; enterprise of, 137; regard of and provision for education, 137; early physicians and lawyers among them, 140, 148; libraries of, 142; luxuries of, 143; early dramatic performances among the, 143. Virginia Company, The, Its pious and enlightened designs, 127. Virginia Historical Society, The, 125. Virginia Military Institute, Its staff, 1848-1861, 273. Virginian, The Colonial, An address by R. A. Brock, 125. Walker, General, R. Lindsay, 314. Warren, General G. K., 112. Washington, George, Ancestry of, 134. Wilderness, Battle of the, 122. William and Mary College, 127, 143. Williamson, Chief Engineer W. P, C. S. N., 4. Wilson, U. S A., General, 51. Wines used by the Virginia Colonists, 143. Wingfield, D. D., Rev. John Henry, 207. Wingfield, D. D, Rt. Rev. J. H. D. 209, 249. Witchcraft in Virginia, 131.