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Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them. 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Elias Nason, McClellan's Own Story: the war for the union, the soldiers who fought it, the civilians who directed it, and his relations to them., Chapter 2: (search)
n they saw me in a fair way toward success they were much more ready to listen to my requisitions for supplies. But I must claim the credit, if credit there be, of having begun and carried on and finished this short campaign on my own resources and against every possible disadvantage. During my whole career in West Virginia, as well as before I went there, I was kept in complete ignorance of the intentions of the Washington people in regard to movements in the East. As I write this (Nov., 1883) I propose omitting for the present the story of the West Virginia campaign, but intend supplying it when my history of the Army of the Potomac is completed. By the middle of July I had obtained complete possession of the country west of the mountains and north of the Kanawha, holding also the lower portion of the last-named valley, where Gen. J. D. Cox had been checked in his advance. I held the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad as far as Cumberland, and covered all the roads leading into W
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wrecks. (search)
80 American steamer San Salvador lost at sea while making a trip from Honduras to Cuba; twenty-nine lives lost......August, 1880 Steamer City of Vera Cruz founders off Florida coast; sixty-eight lives lost......Aug. 29, 1880 Steamer Bahama founders between Porto Rico and New York; twenty lives lost......Feb. 4, 1882 Thirty-five wrecks during a storm off Newfoundland......about Dec. 19, 1882 Six American schooners founder off St. George's bank; seventy-six lives lost......November, 1883 American steamship City of Columbus wrecked on Devil's Bridge, off Gay Head light, Mass.; ninety-nine lives lost......Jan. 18, 1884 Belgian White Cross line steamship Daniel Steinman struck on rock off Sambro Head, N. S.; 131 lives lost......April 3, 1884 Three American schooners lost at sea between Gloucester and St. George's Bank; forty-two lives lost......Dec. 26, 1885 Cunard steamer Oregon, from Liverpool to New York, run into by an unknown schooner, 18 miles east of Lon