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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
.Nov. 19, 1858 Legislature repeals the personal liberty bill......January, 1861 On news of the fall of Fort Sumter, the governor tenders the United States government 1,000 infantry and a battalion of artillery. He convenes the legislature in extra session, April 17, and the Rhode Island Marine Artillery pass through New York on their way to Washington......April 20, 1861 Legislature ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment......1865 Legislature ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment......Feb. 7, 1867 Board of State charities and correction established......1869 State farm, 421 acres in town of Cranston, afterwards site of State-house of correction, State work-house, State asylum for incurable insane, and State almshouse, is purchased......1869 Rhode Island woman suffrage association convention at Providence......October, 1869 Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified......Jan. 18, 1870 Cove lands ceded to the towns by the colony, May 28, 1
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
ngressional Globe, p. 40. 5). Sumner made a similar effort to protect pension agents, January 14 (Globe, p. 432). In another debate he called attention to the use of patronage by the Secretary of the Treasury to promote the President's policy, Feb. 7, 1867 (Globe, p. 1051), and by the Secretary of the Navy, March 1, 1867 (Globe, pp. 1944-1948). He was opposed to repealing the Act at the close of Mr. Johnson's term, and so voted in caucus. Edmunds and Fessenden contested his proposition as involvo the statute, officers in Southern States who could not take the required oath of loyalty,—justifying the illegal appointments on the ground that by the universal participation of the people in the rebellion no discrimination was possible. Feb. 7, 1867, Congressional Globe, pp. 1051-1053; February 28, Globe, pp. 1899, 1911. Sumner had at the time they were made in 1865 protested, in correspondence with the secretary, against his setting aside legal prohibitions on the plea of convenience or
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
. S. Infantry, Jan. 22, 1867. Died, May 31, 1869. Manning, William Cheney. Born in New York. Private, Musician, Corporal and Sergeant Major, 1st Mass. Infantry, May 22, 1861, to Feb. 20, 1863. First Lieutenant, Adjutant, 35th U. S. Colored Infantry, May 18, 1863. Captain, Aug. 6, 1864. Major, 103d U. S. Colored Infantry, Feb. 27, 1865. Mustered out, May 5, 1866. Second Lieutenant, 14th U. S. Infantry, May 11, 1866. Transferred to 23d Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866. First Lieutenant, Feb. 7, 1867. Regimental Adjutant, July 8, 1868, to Dec. 7, 1869. Captain, Mar. 1, 1886. Marcy, Randolph Barnes. See General Officers. Marsh, Salem Sumner. Born in Massachusetts. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1855, to July 1, 1860. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 9th U. S. Infantry, July 1, 1860. Second Lieutenant, 2d U. S. Infantry, Jan. 19, 1861. First Lieutenant, May 14, 1861. Captain, Nov. 12, 1861. Brevet Major, Dec. 13, 1862. Killed at the battle of Chancellorsville, Va., May
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 9 (search)
ut with regiment, Feb. 5, 1866. Day, Samuel E. Private, 1st Mass. Infantry, May 23, 1861. First Lieutenant, 37th U. S. Colored Infantry, Oct. 30, 1863. Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Captain, Mar. 1, 1866. Mustered out, Feb. 7, 1867. Dean, Chauncy C. Second Lieutenant, 30th Mass. Infantry, Feb. 20, 1862. Captain, 93d U. S. Colored Infantry, Mar. 1, 1864. Transferred to 81st U. S. Colored Infantry. Brevet Major, U. S. Volunteers, Mar. 13, 1865. Mustered out, Nov. fantry, May 18, 1863. Captain, Aug. 6, 1864. Major, 103d U. S. Colored Infantry, Feb. 27, 1865. Mustered out, May 5, 1866. Second Lieutenant, 14th U. S. Infantry, May 11, 1866. Transferred to 23d Infantry, Sept. 21, 1866. First Lieutenant, Feb. 7, 1867. Adjutant, July 8, 1868, to Dec. 7, 1869. Captain, March 1, 1886. Marcy, Henry Orlando. First Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, 43d Infantry, M. V. M., in service of the U. S., May 5, 1863. Mustered out, July 30, 1863. Major, Surgeon, 3
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
es lost, Sep. 17, 1879 At Winthrop square, $1,000,000 of property destroyed, Dec. 29, 1879 Boston Journal Building badly scorched, Mar. 21, 1880 Beebe's Block, Winthrop square, burned, May 6, 1880 Fire Alarms. Bells on Churches to be rung, 1700 To be given by watchmen with a rattle, 1796 Bells first rang in Boston by electricity, Jan. 1, 1852 Supt. Moses G. Palmer, appointed, May 1, 1854 Joseph B. Stearns, appointed, May 26, 1856 John F. Kennard, appointed, Feb. 7, 1867 Commission, the Selectmen of the town, Mar. 31, 1651 A special, appointed by the town, Aug. 29, 1679 A board of three chosen by the City Council, Nov. 20, 1873 Companies, eight organized in the town, Aug., 1679 In commission, in the City, twenty, Dec. 31, 1850 With engines, thirty-six in all, Jan. 1, 1880 Engines, ladders and poles, with swabs, prepared, 1652 A machine, throwing water six feet high, provided, 1653 One imported from England, 1679 The town had