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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 655 655 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 7 7 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 6 6 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 6 6 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands 6 6 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2 3 3 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 4: The Cavalry (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 2 Browse Search
L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Mass. officers and men who died. 2 2 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Inflation legislation. (search)
outstanding at one time, however, never exceeded the aggregate amount authorized to be issued by the three acts, and its highest amount was reached Jan. 30, 1864, when it was $449,338,902. The total amount of legaltender paper issued by the government, exclusive of fractional currency, having a limited legal-tender quality, may be thus summed up: United States notes$449,338,902 One year 5 per cent. notes44,520,000 Two year 6 per cent. notes166,480,000 —————— Total$660,338,902 In July, 1865, the government had outstanding $433,000,000 of United States notes, $43,000,000 of one and two year notes, and $25,000,000 of fractional notes. In his report at the opening of Congress in that year Secretary McCulloch advocated a contraction of the currency, and to carry out this policy Congress, by an act approved April 12, 1866, directed that of United States notes not more than $10,000,000 may be retired and cancelled within six months of the passage of this act, and thereafter n
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Meade, George Gordon 1815-1872 (search)
eneral of volunteers, having been in charge of the surveys on the northern lakes until that year as captain of engineers. He was in the Army of the Potomac, active and efficient, from 1861 until the close of the war. In June, 1862, he was made major-general of volunteers, and was in command of the Army of the Potomac in the summer of 1863. On July 1, 2, and 3, of that year he fought the decisive battle of Gettysburg. In 1864 he was made major-general in the United States army; and from July, 1865, to George Gordon Meade. August, 1866, was in command of the Military Division of the Atlantic, and subsequently of the Department of the East and the military district comprising the States of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. In 1865 he received the degree of Ll.D. from Harvard University. He died in Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 1872. The citizens of Philadelphia presented to his wife the house in which he died, and $100,000 was afterwards raised for his family. See Adams, Charles Francis; E
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oregon, (search)
8, 1858 Act admitting Oregon signed by the President......Feb. 14, 1859 Governor Whiteaker convenes the legislature, and completes the organization of the State government......May 16, 1859 Joseph Lane, ex-governor of Oregon, nominated for Vice-President of the United States on the Breckinridge ticket......June 23, 1860 Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia, completed......1864 First National Bank of Portland, the oldest west of the Rocky Mountains, is established......July, 1865 Mount Hood, not previously in eruption since the settlement of California, continues for a month or more to emit smoke and flames, followed by the earthquake of......Oct. 8-9, 1865 Oregon ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution......Dec. 11, 1865 Oregon ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment by one majority, and this act is disputed, as secured by the votes of two Republican members of the House afterwards expelled......Sept. 19, 1866 Cincinnatus H. Miller (Joaquin M
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilson, James Harrison (search)
edition, and was at the capture of Fort Pulaski, for which he was brevetted major. He was aide to General McClellan at South Mountain and Antietam. In the Vicksburg campaign in 1863 he was assistant engineer and inspector-general of the Army of the Tennessee. He was active in the events near Chattanooga, and from May till August, 1864, commanded the 3d Division of cavalry in the Army of the Potomac. In August and September he was in the Shenandoah campaign, and from October, 1864, till July, 1865, he was in command of a division of cavalry in the West and Southwest, being with Thomas in his campaign against Hood, driving the cavalry of the latter across the Harpeth River during the battle of Franklin. He was also distinguished at Nashville in defeating Hood and driving him across the Tennessee River. At the close of Thomas's active campaign in middle Tennessee, the cavalry of James Harrison Wilson. the district, numbering about 20,000 men and horses, were encamped in Lauderd