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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
this city (Mrs. Catharine P. Graham) has recently presented us with war files of several Richmond papers. She refused to sell them for a large price, and insisted on giving them to our Society. John McRae, Esq., of Camden, S. C., has placed us under the highest obligations by presenting the following newspaper files: Charleston Courier from May 1856 to February 1865. Richmond Dispatch from April 1861 to April 1864. Charleston Mercury from July 1859 to February 1865 and from November 1866 to November 1868. Columbia Daily Carolinian from 1855 to October 1864. Charleston Daily News and News and Courier from June 1866 to this date. Camden Journal from January 1856 to this date. Southern Presbyterian from June 1858 to this date. And Dr. J. Dickson Bruns, of New Orleans, has sent us a bound volume of the Charleston Mercury for 1862. We have received recently other valuable contributions, which we have not space even to mention. Our present number has been
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 20: Peace conference at Hampton Roads.--the campaign against Richmond. (search)
ress, when the latter conferred with the Mayor and Councilmen and leading citizens, warning them of the danger of mob violence between the time of the exit of the Confederate troops and the entrance of the National troops. He urged them to obtain the passage of a law by the Virginia Legislature, for enrolling, as a local guard for defense, all men whose age exempted them from military duty, but nothing was done. My efforts were useless, says General Ewell, in a letter to the author, in November, 1866, giving an account of the evacuation. the Legislature thought it inhuman to make old men perform any military service (I thought some were afraid of their popularity), and they would do nothing more than authorize any persons to volunteer into an organization for City guards that chose, while the citizens were only active in trying to get others to volunteer. The result was that only three men volunteered. the Legislature of Virginia, at that time, was far from being a Roman body of m
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
70, about 12 per cent. of the population......1865 Eliphalet Nott, born in 1773, dies at Schenectady......Jan. 29, 1866 [Made president of Union College in 1804. Over 3,700 students graduated during his presidency.] Fenian raid into Canada; about 1,200 men cross Niagara River near Buffalo, camping near old Fort Erie......May 31, 1866 Slight conflict takes place near Ridgeway......June 2, 1866 [Force withdraws the next evening.] Reuben E. Fenton re-elected governor......November, 1866 Vassar Female College at Poughkeepsie incorporated, Jan. 11, 1861; name changed by legislature to Vassar College......Feb. 1, 1867 Normal school at Brockport established......1867 Public schools made entirely free......Oct. 1, 1867 State board of charities organized......1867 Memorial or Decoration Day made a legal holiday; date of first celebration......May 30, 1868 Commission of fisheries created by an act passed......1868 Cornell University at Ithaca opened to s
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
s of the first series are of wrought-iron, forged tapering; those above are of hollow cast-iron, each series successively decreasing in diameter. The lantern is supported on a cylinder of boiler-iron resting on a platform at the top of the columns. Lighthouse at Trinity shoals. The following is a list of the electric lights in England and France, with the dates at which they were erected: Dungeness, January, 1862; Cape La Heve, France, South Light, December, 1863, North Light, November, 1866; Cape Grisnez, France, February, 1869; Souter Point, England, January, 1871; South Foreland, England, with two lights, January, 1872, in the first place in 1858 – 60 by Professor Holmes, and afterward England took the lead in this matter of the adaptation of electric illumination to lighthouse purposes. The Bishop rock light, Scilly Islands, the old Cassiterides of Herodotus, 145 feet high, cost £ 36,559. In the British Isles there are 357 shore lights and 47 floating lights. The Frenc
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, United States Volunteers. (search)
865. Ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, May 3, 1865. Assigned to duty in District of Upper Arkansas from Little Arkansas River to Fort Dodge and Cimaron Crossing. Duty in Districts of Nebraska, Colorado and Utah and the Plains till November, 1866. Mustered out November 13, 1866. 6th United States Volunteers Regiment Infantry. Organized at Columbus, Ohio, Camp Morton, Ind., and Camp Douglas, Ill., April 2, 1865. Ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, May, 1865, arriving there May 11. Moved to Fort Kearney, Neb., May 14; thence to Julesburg, Colo. Duty in District of the Plains and Utah till November, 1866. Mustered out November 3, 1866. 1st United States Volunteers Independent Company Infantry. Organized at Baltimore, Md., as Company G 1st Connecticut Cavalry. At Baltimore and in Middle Department till August, 1864. Ordered to Milwaukee, Wis., thence to Minnesota, and duty at various points in District of Minnesota operating against Indians till N
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, United States Colored Troops. (search)
o December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 25th Corps, to January, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps, to January, 1866. Dept. of Texas to November, 1866. Service. Duty at Hilton Head, S. C., till April, 1864, and at Port Royal Island, S. C., till June. Ashepoo Expedition May 24-27. Expedition to Joorps, to March, 1865. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps, Dept. of North Carolina, to August, 1865. Dept. of North Carolina and Dept. of the South to November, 1866. Service. Duty in Kentucky till October, 1864. Ordered to Baltimore, Md., thence to City Point, Va., October 26. Siege of Petersburg November 3 toh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at various points in North Carolina and in the Dept. of the South till November, 1866. Mustered out November 22, 1866. 108th United States Colored Regiment Infantry. Organized at Louisville, Ky., June 20, 1864. Attached to 1st Briga
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 13: results of the work and proofs of its genuineness (search)
rity, the others in the prime of youthful manhood. These men, in the language of a public journal which, in this instance at least, gave utterance to the public sentiment— these men were all of the stuff of which heroes are made. They all did the duties of life with earnestness; all died the death of martyrs in a cause to which they had devoted themselves without stint; and of each of them, it is no exaggeration to say, the anxious inquiry has gone forth, Who can fill his place? In November, 1866, the remains of William Thompson Haskell were raised from the field of Gettysburg by the hands of his comrades, and brought to his native town. At the depot they were met by the survivors of the old company with which he had originally entered the service, and escorted to the Episcopal Church, when, with solemn services and amid deep emotion, they were interred in the adjacent cemetery. We have spoken of his rare gifts, of his heroic qualities, of his unselfish patriotism, and his de
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
town county and continued practicing his profession, and has been thus engaged ever since. Dr. Bailey was married in November, 1866, to Miss Maria Laval Williams, of Georgetown. They have six children: Thomas P., Jr., professor of pedagogics in the was with the Dispatch. In the spring of 1866 he was instrumental in forming the Hollywood memorial association. In November, 1866, he accepted a position on the Charleston Mercury, and about a year later became a part owner of the News, which was parole. At the close of hostilities he rejoined his family near Manning, S. C., where they had taken refuge, and in November, 1866, he made his residence at Charleston. For many years he has been connected with the People's national bank, of Charllm resigned as secretary of the treasury, and John A. Reagan, then postmaster-general, was assigned to his place. In November, 1866, Captain White was married to Esther Allison, daughter of a distinguished citizen of Concord, N. C., and they have on
Adam Badeau, Grant in peace: from Appomattox to Mount McGregor, a personal memoir, Chapter 6: (search)
e country and had been repeatedly and earnestly pressed upon the Government; and the device of the Administration now was to make use of these sentiments as an excuse to send him on a mission to the neighboring republic and thus get rid of his presence which had become such an obstruction to many of their designs. The French Emperor, it was true, was tardily preparing to remove his army, and there was neither object nor necessity for Grant's presence or intervention. Nevertheless, in November, 1866, immediately after the failure of the Baltimore scheme, the President informed Grant that he meant to send him to Mexico. A Minister had already been appointed to that republic, and Grant was to be given neither powers nor authority. No special purpose for the mission was announced; he was simply to give the Minister the benefit of his advice in carrying out the instructions of the Secretary of State. It was doubtless supposed that Grant with his profound anxiety for Mexican independ
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
h prove this rule. Even in the case of General Miles it is fair to say his conduct resulted more perhaps from an intense desire to win the applause of his superiors—President Johnson, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Dana, and General Holt—than from the cruel nature which one might infer from his acts and correspondence. Many schemes of relief for Mr. Davis were devised and many suggestions of bail, but the judiciary was so squeamish and so jealous of its authority that, although courts were held in November, 1866, it was not until May, 1867, two years after Mr. Davis was imprisoned, that either judge of that circuit could be persuaded even to hear his plea within a jurisdiction where, to use their language, a soldier was the ultimate arbiter and a bayonet the sole symbol of the law, albeit it was to relieve a citizen suffering under the tyranny of such an anomalous condition. The judges drew fine distinctions between the civil and military law, the Attorney-General gave learned opinions, and Mr.
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