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Articles of War.
In the United States, Congress only can make articles of war. These have been based on the English articles and mutiny act. They were first adopted by the Continental Congress. July 30, 1775, and extended March 20, 1776; enacted again, with little alteration, April 10, 1806.
Some additions were made from 1861-65, and in 1874 they were codified as section 1,342 of the Revised statutes of the United States.
An act of Congress provides that the Articles of War shall be read before the officers and men of the army and navy at frequent and regular periods.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bachman , John , 1790 -1874 (search)
Bachman, John, 1790-1874
Naturalist; born in Dutchess county, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1790.
He was pastor of a Lutheran church at Charleston, S. C., in 1815-74; but is best known from his association with Auduhbon in the preparation of his great work on ornithology.
He contributed the most of the text on the quadrupeds of North America, which Audubon and his sons illustrated.
He died in Charleston, S. C., Feb. 25, 1874.
Bachman, John, 1790-1874
Naturalist; born in Dutchess county, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1790.
He was pastor of a Lutheran church at Charleston, S. C., in 1815-74; but is best known from his association with Auduhbon in the preparation of his great work on ornithology.
He contributed the most of the text on the quadrupeds of North America, which Audubon and his sons illustrated.
He died in Charleston, S. C., Feb. 25, 1874.
Bagley, worth, 1874-
Naval officer; born in Raleigh, N. C., April 6, 1874; was graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1895.
After serving two years on the Montgomery, Texas, and the Maine, he was made ensign July 1897.
He was a short time on the Indiana, and then became the executive clerk of Capt. Charles D. Sigsbee on the Maine.
In November, 1897, he was appointed inspector of the new torpedo-boat Winslow.
and when she went into commission on Dec. 28, he was made her executive officer, under Lieut. J. B. Bernadou, her commander.
In April, 1898, the Winslow was with the fleet mobilized for operations in Cuban waters.
On the morning of May 11 she prepared, with the Hudson and Wilmington, to force an entrance to the harbor of Cardenas.
She was fired upon by one of several Spanish gunboats, and immediately there was a general engagement.
the Winslow, was soon disabled, and was with difficulty hauled out of range of the Spanish guns.
The guns of the enemy were silen
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bankruptcy laws, past and present. (search)
Bannock Indians,
A tribe of North American Indians, sometimes called the Robber Indians.
It was divided into two distinct branches: the first inhabited the region between lat. 42° and 45° and reaching from long.
113° to the Rocky Mountains; the second claimed all of the southwestern part of Montana.
The first branch was the more numerous.
In 1869 the Bannocks of the Salmon River numbered only 350, having been reduced by small-pox and invasions of the Blackfeet.
In that year about 600 of the Southern tribe were settled on the Wind River reservation, and in the same year 600 more were sent to the Fort Hall reservation.
Most of the latter afterwards left the reservation, but returned with the Shoshones and the scattered Bannocks of the southern part of Idaho in 1874.
In 1900 the Bannocks were reduced to 430 at the Fort Hall agency, and eighty-five at the Lemhi agency, both in Ida
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartholdi , Frederic Auguste . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beecher , Henry Ward , 1813 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blackburn , Joseph Clay styles , 1838 - (search)
Blackburn, Joseph Clay styles, 1838-
Lawyer; born in Woodford county, Ky., Oct. 1, 1838; was graduated at Centre College, Danville, in 1857; served in the Confederate army during the Civil War; was elected to the legislature in 1871, to Congress in 1874, and to the United States Senate in 1885 and 1891.
He was a leader in the free-coinage movement.