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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., chapter 17 (search)
of the male citizens were at home, and there was no resistance. Leavenworth, being directly on the border, and easily accessible from a populous portion of Missouri, was especially exposed to outrages. It was long under the control of the pro-Slavery party, being a military post, and a point whence overland trains and mails were dispatched, and at which a vast Federal patronage was concentrated. The office of The Territorial Register (Free-State) was destroyed by a Missouri band, December 20, 1855. Many collisions and murders occurred here, and in the vicinity; and at length, on the recurrence of the municipal election (September 1, 1856), a large force, mainly of Missourians, took possession of the town; and, under the pretense of searching for arms, plundered and ravaged as they chose. William Phillips, a lawyer, refused to submit to their search, and stood on his defense. He killed two of his assailants, but was finally killed himself; while his brother, who aided him in h
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gordon, Armitstead Churchill 1855- (search)
Gordon, Armitstead Churchill 1855- Lawyer; born in Albemarle county, Va., Dec. 20, 1855; was admitted to the bar in 1879. His publications include Congressional currency; Befoa de War; Echoes in negro dialect (with Thomas Nelson Page); and For truth and freedom: poems of commemoration.
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
nd that he had been assigned to the command of the advance, the most important post of the army. Considering this, a few words about Gen. Stuart may not be amiss. He was born in Partrick county, Va. in 1833, and is now but twenty-eight years of age.--He was appointed a cadet in the West Point Military Academy, and graduated in the class of 1854. His first commission in the United States army was as Brevet Second Lieutenant in the mounted rifles, and was dated July 1st, 1854. On the 20th of December, 1855, he received a commission as First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Cavalry, and was afterwards breveted a Captain, after seven years service in the army. This latter rank he held at the time of his resignation to join in the defence of his native State. He immediately entered the service of the Confederate States, was made Colonel of the First Mounted Regiment from Virginia, and a short time since was promoted to a Brigadier-Generalcy, and assigned to the command of cavalry.