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Owen Wister, Ulysses S. Grant, IV. (search)
also about the Italian war, and studied maps and newspapers minutely, his comments were received with indulgence; for his audience, looking at the man, could scarcely look for wisdom from him. There came a time when he walked the streets, seeking employment. So painful was it all that those who knew him preferred to cross the street rather than meet him. Can any one gauge the despair of a man who, little as he studied himself, must have known how far below himself he was living? In March, 1860, Grant went to weigh leather and buy hides for his father's branch store in Galena. He was paid six hundred dollars at first, and later eight hundred. But this did not support his wife and four children. He went to the war in debt, which he paid from his first military savings. In 1866 he refused his inheritance, saying that he had helped to make none of his father's wealth. This must be remembered in considering Grant's acceptance of presents in acknowledgment of his military servic
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 492 (search)
Under the head of A proposition to Major Anderson, the New Orleans Picayune of May 17th publishes the following, from a well-known citizen :-- New Orleans, May 16, 1861. Major Robt. Anderson, late of Fort Sumter, S. C.: Sir:--You hold my three notes for $4,500 each, with about $1,000 accumulated interest, all due in the month of March, 1862, which notes were given in part payment of twenty-nine negroes, purchased of you in March, 1860. As I consider fair play a jewel, I take this method to notify you that I will not pay those notes; but, as I neither seek nor wish an advantage, I desire that you return me the notes and the money paid you, and the negroes shall be subject to your order, which you will find much improved by kind treatment since they came into my possession. I feel justified in giving you, and the public, this notice, as I do not consider it fair play that I should be held to pay for the very property you so opportunely dispossessed yourself of, and now s
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Surrender of Fort Powell. (search)
nths. 12. Alexander H. Truett (Coxswain) is recommended for coolness and good conduct in the action in Mobile Bay on the morning and forenoon of August fifth, 1864. He was in the actions with Forts Jackson and St. Philip; the Chalmette batteries; the rebel iron-clads and gunboats below New-Orleans; the batteries below Vicksburgh, and was present at the surrender of New-Orleans. He was present at and assisted in the capture of the piratical steamer Miramon, and Marquis de la Habana in March, 1860, near Vera Cruz. 13. Robert Brown (Captain of Top) is recommended for coolness and good conduct in the action in Mobile Bay on the morning and forenoon of August fifth, 1864. He was on board the Westfield in the actions with Fort Jackson and St. Philip; the Chalmettes; and present at the surrender of New-Orleans; also with the batteries at Vicksburgh. Joined the Richmond in September, 1863. 14. John H. James (Captain of Top) is recommended for coolness and good conduct as captain
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
hoto-zin-cog′ra-phy. A process for the production of delineations on zinc by the aid of light, from which impressions can be printed after the manner of zincography. This method of producing and printing facsimiles is identical with photolithography, save in the fact that zinc plates are substituted for stone. Cutting and Bradford, as well as Osborne, contemplated the production of the printable picture on zinc, as well as on stone; the latter produced copies of maps in this way in March, 1860. To Col. Sir Henry James, however, the credit is due of giving to a process on zinc, elaborated by the employees of the Southampton Map Office, considerable prominence and importance. This process resembles Asser's, but only to the extent that a transfer is employed. In its details it is identical with Osborne's (omitting the use of albumen). Both these inventors anticipated James, and published elaborate descriptions of their processes. The Southampton office has made a very useful
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
Levi Farwell, who resigned in January, 1832, to accept the presidency of the newly organized Charles River Bank. Judge Fay followed Deacon Farwell, resigning in December, 1842. Rev. Thomas Whittemore held the presidency till his resignation, March, 1860. Benjamin Tilton finished out the year, and in the following October Rev. Dr. Lucius R. Paige, at that time filling the position of cashier, was elected. In March, 1863, Dr. Paige resigned the presidency to accept the cashiership again, and apacities, since that time. Mr. Morse has been connected with the bank since 1860. Mr. Lane served the bank as cashier from its inception, 1826, till March, 1855, when he resigned on account of ill-health. Dr. Paige held the position till March, 1860. Joseph Whittemore, late principal assessor, followed Dr. Paige, resigning in February, 1863. Dr. Paige took the office again temporarily, until Seymour B. Snow was elected in August, 1864. Mr. Snow held the position just twenty years. He res
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.), Book III (continued) (search)
some of Ruskin's stylistic mannerisms, though occasionally he finds a sturdier model in Gibbon. A certain banal moralism, when he speaks of retribution in the affairs of nations, is rather in the vein of Carlyle; while on the other hand the following passage, dated Rome, 20th January, 1857, shows a remarkable coincidence with several passages in The Marble Faun: Hawthorne arrived in Rome 20 January, 1858, began The Marble Faun there in the winter of 1859, and finished it in England in March, 1860. There is many a wall in Rome made of old materials strikingly joined together,—bits of ancient bricks stamped with a consular date, pieces of the shaft of some marble column, fragments of serpentine, or even of giallo antico, that once made part of the polished pavement of a palace,—now all combined in one strange harmony by Nature, who seems to love these walls and to reclaim them to herself by tinting their various blocks with every hue of weather stain, and hanging over them her lovel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1859. (search)
a style that surprises me. Did I tell you I should go on my stumping tour with letters from Governor Banks and all the notables here to all the notables out West? I shall probably be engaged in speaking for two months. Not steadily. Meanwhile, I am reading up desperately, hearing and sifting arguments on both sides. I shall prepare myself on either five or six points which I think will tell well in the canvass. He went as delegate to the Republican State Convention at Worcester, in March, 1860. In the fall of the same year he went upon his electioneering tour through the West, and spoke in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. His last and most effective speeches were in Brooklyn and New York City, where his apt and witty stories and quiet self-possession gave him both popularity and influence as a speaker. Mounting the steps of the New York Hotel, where the Southerners most do congregate, he writes:— I made the only Republican speech, in all
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1862. (search)
rs while at College. October, 1859. Our rank-list was published the other day. There is nothing that troubles or discourages me so much as to have father and mother disappointed in and ashamed of me, when I ought to work so hard that they would try to hold me in rather. No one knows what I have to contend against. If it were not for pleasing my friends, I think I should not try to stand high; but, if I could be energetic enough, would pursue my studies in a different way. March, 1860. The Communion, if rightly employed, is one of the highest privileges granted to a Christian, and one of the most efficacious means for Christian advancement. We are all in great danger of falling away from our principles and highest intentions; and for this. reason we need a certain portion of each day for self-examination and communion with God and the study of holy books, which must be scrupulously observed, for by these means the religious part of our nature is developed and a
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
academy, at the State military academy, and at Harvard university. At Harvard he studied chemistry and botany with a view to engaging in agriculture, and in 1859 and 1860 he was planting cotton at Hartsville, S. C. His marriage took place in March, 1860, to Susan Stout, at Wetumpka, Ala., the daughter of Rev. Platt Stout and Margaret Chambers Stout, who had gone to Alabama from Kentucky. In the fall of 1860 J. L. Coker organized an infantry company, which served one year as Company G, Ninth ine upon reaching his majority, and in 1858-59 took his first course of lectures in the medical department of the university of Virginia. In 1859-60 he took a second course of lectures at the university of New York, from which he graduated in March, 1860, and began at once to practice in Anderson, where he now ranks as one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the State of South Carolina. In June, 1861, he volunteered as a private in Orr's regiment, First South Carolina rifles, but was re
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A Sketch of the life and career of Hunter Holmes McGuire, M. D., Ll. D. (search)
paid the fares of the students from Philadelphia to Richmond. The students marched to the place of their departure in a body. All were armed, for they had been led to fear violence on account of threats. On their arrival they were received with great demonstration, during which Governor Henry A. Wise made a stirring speech and the city refunded the railroad fare of all the students. Drs. Lockett and McGuire finished the course with the students at the Medical College of Virginia in March, 1860, when Dr. McGuire went to New Orleans and established another quiz class. Upon the secession of South Carolina, seeing the inevitability of war, he hastened home to offer his services to Virginia. Dr. McGuire volunteered in Company F, 2nd Virginia Regiment, and marched with the regiment from Winchester to Harper's Ferry, on April 17, 1861, the day Virginia seceded. He was commissioned May 4th of the same year as surgeon in the provisional army of the Confederate States, and was immedia
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