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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 31: Pittsburg Landing. (search)
he could not at any rate cross the river before the following Tuesday. Nevertheless, that division and myself arrived at Savannah Saturday, as I had directed. The next morning General Grant was attacked at Pittsburg Landing. General Buell says further that all the facts prove that Sherman shared the feeling of security. A careful reading of the dispatches and communications of commanders sustains every statement in the foregoing summary. General G. Ammen, in a letter dated April 5, 1871, published in the Cincinnati Commercial, strongly corroborates General Buell's statement that Grant delayed Nelson's march. He says Nelson told him, at Columbia, that he was not wanted at Savannah before Monday, April 7th, but, everything favoring him, he arrived there on the 5th, at noon. Thus, he anticipated in time not only the calculations of the Confederate commanders, but Buell's orders, by two days. There is no reason for believing that General Buell disappointed any just exp
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
is, Alexander G. Cattell, Joseph Medill, D. A. Walker, E. B. Ellicott, Joseph H. Blackfan, and David C. Cox, appointed by President......March, 1871 William H. Gibson (colored), United States mail agent on the Lexington and Louisville Railroad, assaulted at North Benson, Ky., Jan. 26; United States troops sent into Kentucky, and mail withdrawn on that route for one month......March, 1871 Santo Domingo commission's report sent to Congress with a special message by the President......April 5, 1871 Act to enforce the fourteenth amendment (Ku-klux act)......April 20, 1871 Branch mint at Dahlonega, Ga., conveyed to trustees of the North Georgia Agricultural College for educational purposes, by act......April 20, 1871 First session adjourns......April 20, 1871 Under call, dated April 20, Senate meets in special session......May 10, 1871 Extra session of Senate adjourns sine die......May 27, 1871 Hall's Arctic expedition sails from New York......June 29, 1871 Riot
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55: Fessenden's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese.—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War.—annexation of San Domingo.—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish.—removal of Motley.—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869-1870. (search)
no definite idea as to what they were, the senator even supposing that they might provide only for a protectorate in the Gulf, always a favorite idea of his own. In the Senate, Dec. 21, 1870; Congressional Globe, p. 253. New York Tribune, April 5, 1871. The interview closed by his saying: Mr. President, I am an Administration man, and whatever you do will always find in me the most careful and candid consideration. Sumner's account may be found in his speeches, Dec. 21, 1870, Works, vol.tation, which had hitherto been unjustly denied. He believed it to be the high duty of the United States, as a strong power, to foster and protect the weaker powers in this hemisphere, instead of plotting to absorb them. New York Tribune, April 5, 1871. Such reflections were on the senator's mind before he had been admitted to knowledge of the circumstances of the negotiation. One day the assistant secretary of state (Davis) brought him some despatches from San Domingo, which revealed
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 16: ecclesiastical History. (search)
75. His ministry was acceptable, and gave promise of abundant success; but it was terminated by what seemed to be a premature death, Nov. 2, 1876, before he had quite attained the age of thirty-one years. Deacons. H. Porter Smith, elected January, 1873. Henry C. Williams, elected January, 1873. Cottage Street Methodist Episcopal.—The Cottage Street Methodist Episcopal Church—the outgrowth of a Mission Sabbath-school enterprise started in 1870, in Williams Hall—was organized April 5, 1871. It consisted of seventeen members. The church and society at first worshipped in Williams Hall, and afterwards in Odd Fellows Hall. In 1872 a convenient chapel was erected, which was dedicated June 19th. By the erection of this chapel, the Society incurred a debt of four thousand dollars, in addition to its own free and generous contributions. One of its original members, Mr. Amos P. Rollins, who died March 9, 1873, bequeathed two thousand dollars toward the extinction of this debt<