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John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army, Index (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alexander , Barton Stone , 1819 -1878 (search)
Alexander, Barton Stone, 1819-1878
Military engineer: born in Kentucky in 1819; was graduated at the Military Academy at West Point in 1842.
He was made second lieutenant of engineers in 1843, and captain in 1856.
For services at the battle of Bull Run. July, 186;1, he was brevetted major, and in March, 1863, was commissioned major of the engineer corps.
For meritorious services during the Civil War, he was brevetted brigadier-general in March, 1865.
Active during the war, he was consulting engineer in Sheridan's army in the Shenandoah Valley, and was at the Battle of Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864.
After the war he spent two years in charge of the construction of public works in Maine.
He died in San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 15, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cedar Creek , battle of. (search)
St. Albans,
A city and county seat of Franklin county, Vt., near Lake Champlain.
On Oct. 19, 1864, a party of armed Confederate refugees in Canada, under the leadership of Lieut. Bennett H. Young, raided the town in the afternoon, and attacked the St. Albans, Franklin County, and First National banks.
They overpowered the few employes of the banks then on duty, secured an aggregate of $211,150 in bank-notes, seized all the horses they could find, and rode off hastily towards Canada.
The party numbered between thirty and forty, and the entire proceeding occupied only about twenty minutes. Nearly the entire party was subsequently captured by the Canadian authorities.
In 1867 the town was again a centre of public interest.
An invasion of Canada from the United States had been arranged for the spring by members of the Fenian Brotherhood.
Buffalo, N. Y., and Detroit, Mich., were chosen as the principal rendezvous, and St. Albans, Vt., and Odgensburg, N. Y., as depots for the a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shenandoah Valley , chronology of the operations in the (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America . (search)