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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Strength of General Lee's army in the Seven days battles around Richmond. (search)
loss in Holmes' division was 51, in Stuart's cavalry 71, and in the reserve artillery 44. The whole loss sums up as follows: Longstreet's division, 4,429; A. P. Hill's division, 3,870; Huger's division, 2,129; Jackson's command, 6,727; Magruder's command, 2,236; Holmes' division, 51; Stuart's cavalry, 71; reserve artillery, 44. Total, 19,557. Mr. Swinton, the author of the History of the army of the Potomac, examined the Confederate returns in the Archive Office at Washington, and in June, 1876, published an abstract from them showing the strength of our armies at various times. His statement shows that there were present for duty in the Department of Northern Virginia at the end of July, 1862, 69,559 men and officers. This included not only all the commands which had been at the battles around Richmond, except Daniel's brigade of a little over 1,500 men, which had gone back, but also the brigade of Evans, which had arrived, and Drayton's if it had arrived, as well as the Forty
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Editorial paragraphs. (search)
and figures, and most unimpeachable testimony to refute the slanders against the Confederacy which have so long run riot over both facts and probabilities. It is a book that ought to be placed in every public and private library in the South, and our friends should interest themselves in placing it in Northern and European libraries as well. We mail it on the receipt of the price, $1.25, $1.50, or $1.75, according to binding. Southern Historical Society Papers β€” Volume I--January to June, 1876, containing our first six numbers beautifully bound, we mail at $2.00 bound in cloth, $2.25 in half morocco, and $2.50 half calf. We consider this volume of 500 pages, containing invaluable matter to those who would know the truth of our Confederate history, an exceedingly cheap book, and we hope our friends will assist in its circulation. And we would be obliged if friends would call the attention of booksellers to our publications. We are satisfied that we can make it to the advan
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 24: (search)
made to point out the advantage which might have been obtained if General Lee, in succeeding to the command, had renewd on June 1st the unfinished battle of May 31st; the representation that he commenced his campaign known as the Seven Day's Battles only after he had collected a great army, instead of moving with a force not greatly superior to that which his predecessor had, has led to the full exposition of all the facts bearing upon the case. In the Southern Historical Society Papers, June, 1876, is published an extract from an address of Colonel Charles Marshall, secretary and aidede-camp to General R. E. Lee, before the Virginia Division of the Army of Northern Virginia. In it Colonel Marshall quotes General J. E. Johnston as saying: General Lee did not attack the enemy until the 26th of June, because he was employed from the 1st until then in forming a great army by bringing to that which I had commanded 15,000 men from North Carolina under Major-General Holmes, 22,000 me
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Telephone, the (search)
raph Company, with a description of Reis's telephone, begins experiments with a view to producing an articulating telephone......July, 1875 Elisha Gray files his caveat for an invention to transmit the tones of the human voice through a telegraphic circuit, etc......Feb. 14, 1876 Professor Bell publicly explains his method before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston......May 10, 1876 Bell's telephone exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, Pa.......June, 1876 Iron diaphragm first used by Bell......June 30, 1876 Edison's carbon, loud-speaking telephone invented......January, 1877 Professor Bell exhibits at the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., his telephone, using a powerful horseshoe magnet, by which a short speech, shouted into a similar telephone in Boston, 16 miles distant, is distinctly audible to an audience of 600 persons in Salem......Feb. 12, 1877 First-known telephone line connects the office of Charles Williams, electrician,
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
et by sixty, has been erected. This addition is especially adapted for handling heavy work, and is fitted with electric cranes and the most modern machinery and tools. They at present employ one hundred and fifty mechanics. The company was incorporated, May, 1896, with a paid β€” in capital of seventy-five thousand dollars. Boston Bridge Works. The Boston Bridge Works, located on Sixth, Ninth, Rogers, and Binney streets, was established by D. H. Andrews, the present proprietor, in June, 1876. The business was begun on Main Street, in a building belonging to the then existing firm of Kendall & Roberts, at the spot where the office of Edward Kendall & Sons now stands. Bridge-manufacturing in Boston or vicinity previous to that time had not been successful, and the modest beginning of the Boston Bridge Works gave ample opportunity to study and, so far as possible, avoid the causes of previous failure. The growth of the business was not at first rapid, but it was steady unt
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)
ed to make room for stores, Sep., 1865 Church st territory raised, in some places, 9 ft, 1868 Circus opened at the foot of the Mall, Sep. 19, 1778 Opened at Washington Garden, near West st., July, 1815 Opened at the Lion Tavern, Washington street, Oct., 1835 One on Haverhill street, and another on Travers street, Oct., 1841 On Haymarket square, Franklin turns three summersaults, May, 1844 Barnum's, on Exeter street, great display, May, 1875 On Columbus avenue, June, 1876 Exhibition, Siege of Paris Panorama, on Columbus avenue, 1880 City Auditor, William Hayden, appointed, May 13, 1825 Elisha Copeland, appointed, June 14, 1841 Alfred T. Turner, appointed, Dec. 5, 1864 James H. Dodge, appointed, July 16, 1881 Building, Corner of Court square and Williams court, built, 1846 Occupied as a police station, May 26, 1854 Clerk, Samuel F. McCleary, Sr., chosen, May 1, 1822 Samuel F. McCleary, Jr., chosen, Jan. 5, 1852 Crier, James W
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
ender of New Orleans, and as a practical measure warranted alone by the exigencies of the time, he prohibited planters from adding other bales to the cotton supply already crowding the levee. When the city fell, he promptly summoned the State legislature to meet at Opelousas. Finding it difficult to insure a quorum in that town, he transferred its sessions to Shreveport, which remained, throughout the conflict, the war capital of Louisiana. Governor Moore did not long survive the war. In June, 1876, he passed away at his home in Rapide Parish, honored by the people of the State which he had so loyally and intelligently served. He died at the ripe age of seventy-three. Henry Watkins Allen Henry Watkins Allen, second war governor of Louisiana, was born in Prince Edward county, Virginia, April 29, 1820. His father, a noted physician, removed to Lexington, Mo., and Henry was placed in Marion college, whence he went to Grand Gulf, Miss., in consequence of .a family dispute. There
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Occasional Poems (search)
Land of Flowers Upon his lonely grave she laid: The jasmine dropped its golden showers, The orange lent its bloom and shade. And something whispered in her thought, More sweet than mortal voices be: β€œThe service thou for him hast wrought O daughter! hath been done for me.” 1875. Centennial Hymn. Written for the opening of the International Exhibition, Philadelphia, May 10, 1876. The music for the hymn was written by John K. Paine, and may be found in The Atlantic Monthly for June, 1876. I. our fathers' God! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one. Ii. Here, where of old, by Thy design, The fathers spake that word of Thine Whose echo is the glad refrain Of rended bolt and falling chain, To grace our festal time, from all The zones of earth our guests we call. Iii. Be with us while the New World greets The Old Wo