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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
obinsin, speaker of State Senate, succeeds him......Aug. 16, 1862 General Bragg begins his march into Kentucky from Tennessee......Aug. 24, 1862 Battle near Richmond, Madison county; Confederates victorious......Aug. 29-30, 1862 Colonel Morgan's Confederate cavalry reach Lexington after five weeks, passing through the State on their second raid......Sept. 4, 1862 Mumfordsville surrendered to the advancing army under General Bragg, Sept. 17; again occupied by the Federals......Sept. 21, 1862 Confederate State government organized at Frankfort, with Richard Hawes, of Bourbon, as governor, and four hours later leaves Frankfort, never to return......Oct. 4, 1862 Battle of Perryville fought on Chaplin Hills in Boyle county......Oct. 8, 1862 Nine Confederate soldiers captured and hanged in Rockcastle county in retaliation for the hanging in Bell county, by some Confederate soldiers, of Capt. H. King and fifteen others as bushwackers......Nov. 6, 1862 Colonel Cluke's C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward, Frederick Townsend 1831-1862 (search)
and of men from various countries and their services were accepted by the government. He first captured the walled town of Sungkiang, in which there were 10,000 rebels, in recognition of which he was created a mandarin of the fourth degree. He next dispersed the rebels around Shanghai and later prevented them from taking that city. Afterwards he was made admiral-general and created a mandarin of the highest grade, married the daughter of a powerful native, and was named Hwa. When Captain Wilkes removed the Confederate commissioners from the Trent and war seemed probable between the United States and England, he planned the seizure of the British warships and merchant vessels in Chinese waters. At the outbreak of the Civil War he tried to close up his affairs in China in order to enlist in the National army, and made an offer of $10,000 to the United States government, but before he received an answer was mortally wounded in an action at Tsekie, and died in Ningpo,. Sept. 21, 1862.