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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion 1 1 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
s. Benjamin Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, was nominated for Vice-President, but declined, and the national committee nominated Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia.] A loan of $21,000,000 authorized by Congress......June 22, 1860 Homestead bill vetoed by the President......June 22, 1860 [Senate fails to pass it over the veto by three votes.] First session adjourns......June 25, 1860 Steamship Great Eastern sails from England, June 17, reaching New York in eleven days, two hours......June 28, 1860 Kansas elects a convention to draft a second constitution; it meets......July 5, 1860 [Under this, the Wyandotte constitution, prohibiting slavery, Kansas was afterwards admitted.] Lady Elgin, a steamer on Lake Michigan, sunk by collision with the schooner Augusta......morning of Sept. 8, 1860 [Out of 385 persons on board, 287 were lost.] William Walker, Nicaraguan filibuster, captured and shot at Truxillo, Nicaragua......Sept. 12, 1860 Prince of Wales arrives at Detroi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
, judgment, and a steadily widening sympathy. On the business side of editorship, however, it was a great relief when Fields took the helm; and the following two letters will indicate the point where Lowell was deficient. Theodore Parker had died on May Io, 1860, and I had taken pains to write promptly a sketch of him, based on intimate knowledge, for early publication in the Atlantic. Then followed a delay which I could not understand, but which the second letter explains. Cambridge, June 28, 1860. My dear Higginson, I supposed you would understand as going without saying that I am always glad of an article from you. I can't use it however before September. I have to make it a rule not to acknowledge articles sent to me — or I should have time for nothing else. You can conceive. Celia Thaxter's poem I like and will print. I think we ought to notice Parker and should like to have your article. I think that folks have confounded (as they commonly do) force with power in est
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 12: (search)
yet finally shrunk from the responsibility of reporting a single resolution accusing or censuring any one of them. In the boundless field it had explored, it failed to discover a single point on which it could venture to rest any such resolution. This surely was a triumphant result for the President. We refrain from now portraying the proceedings of the committee in their true light, because this has already been sufficiently done by the message of the President to the House of the 28th June, 1860, of which we insert a copy from the Journal Ibid., p. 1218. To the House of Representatives: In my message to the House of Representatives of the 28th March last, I solemnly protested against the creation of a committee, at the head of which was placed my accuser, for the purpose of investigating whether the President had by money, patronage, or other improper means, sought to influence the action of Congress, or any committee thereof, for or against the passage of any law appe
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
ded on entering the Belen Gate of the city of Mexico. His services in the United States army were varied and efficient. He served in Florida against the Seminole Indians, and commanded an expedition against the Comanche Indians, being four times wounded in a combat near Washita Village, Indian Territory, October 1, 1858. Two of the wounds were inflicted by arrows and proved quite dangerous. He was commissioned captain of the Second cavalry March 3, 1855, and major in the same regiment June 28, 1860. Upon the secession of Mississippi he resigned his commission in the United States army, and was appointed brigadier-general of the State forces by the Mississippi legislature, and afterward major-general to succeed Jefferson Davis. He was commissioned colonel of cavalry in the regular Confederate service to date from March 16, 1861, and for a short time was in command at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, below New Orleans. Then going to Texas he was put in command of that department, Ap
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.11 (search)
is strict construction of the law, it is a strange fact that in promoting Cooper he clearly and probably intentionally violated a plain statute of the Confederate Congress. Mr. Davis is mistaken, as I think, in asserting that Robert E. Lee had held the higher rank in the United States army. Johnston and Lee were made lieutenant-colonels respectively of the first and second cavalry on the same day, viz., March 3, 1855. Johnston was promoted to be brigadier and quartermaster-general, June 28, 1860. Lee was still really only lieutenant-colonel when he resigned, though it is true he had been nominated as colonel about a month previously, but the Senate had not yet confirmed him. During the Mexican war, in which both were distinguished, Johnston was a lieutenant-colonel of volunteers, two grades above Lee, who was then but a captain of engineers. There was more tenable ground for assuming that A. S. Johnston ranked J. E. Johnston. He was acting brigadier-general by brevet, dated