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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881 (search)
e year. Afterwards he was in charge of a squadron of cavalry in New Mexico; was quartermaster of the Mexican Boundary Commission in 1850-51; resigned in 1853; established a manufactory of breech-loading rifles (his own invention) in Rhode Island; and was an officer of the Illinois Central Railroad Ambrose Everett Burnside. Company when the Civil War began. He went into that conflict as colonel of the 1st Rhode Island Volunteers. For good service at the battle of Bull Run he was made (Aug. 6, 1861) major-general of volunteers. He commanded the expedition that captured Roanoke Island (q. v.) in February, 1862; also Newbern and Beaufort. He was called to Virginia after the close of the campaign on the Peninsula, and was active and skilful as a corps commander in many of the most important military events of the war. General Burnside served in the campaign in Maryland under McClellan, and was in the battles at South Mountain and Antietam. On Nov. 7, 1862, he superseded McClellan in
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Emancipation proclamations. (search)
f war, subject to seizure. He set the ablebodied men to work upon government fortifications, and when they brought their women and children with them he issued rations to them and charged them to the service of the men. The President sustained General Butler's action in this case and the example was followed by other commanders. The government ordered strict accounts to be kept of the labor thus performed, as it was not yet determined that these laborers should be regarded as free. On Aug. 6, 1861, the President signed an act passed by Congress which declared that when any slave was employed in any military or naval service against the government the person by whom his labor was claimed, that is, his owner, should forfeit all claims to such labor. The intent at the time this bill was passed was that it should be in force only tentatively, for few were then able to see what proportions the war would assume and what other measures would be found necessary to end it. General Fremont,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
1 Gen. George B. McClellan assumes command of the Division of the Potomac......July 27, 1861 State troops of Tennessee transferred to the Confederate government......July 31, 1861 First (extra) session (thirty-four days) adjourns......Aug. 6, 1861 An act confiscating the property, including slaves, of enemies of the United States......Aug. 6, 1861 Gen. U. S. Grant assumes command of the District of Ironton, Mo......Aug. 8, 1861 Battle of Springfield, or Wilson's Creek, Mo., andAug. 6, 1861 Gen. U. S. Grant assumes command of the District of Ironton, Mo......Aug. 8, 1861 Battle of Springfield, or Wilson's Creek, Mo., and death of General Lyon......Aug. 10, 1861 Kentucky and Tennessee constituted the Department of the Cumberland, under command of Gen. Robert Anderson......Aug. 15, 1861 President by proclamation forbids commercial intercourse with seceding States......Aug. 16, 1861 General Butler captures Forts Hatteras and Clark, at the entrance of Hatteras Inlet, with 715 prisoners, and twenty-five guns......Aug. 29, 1861 General Fremont proclaims martial law in Missouri, with freedom to the slaves