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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 2 2 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., In vindication of General Rufus King. (search)
doubts, he did not deliver it, for he never attempted to return to King, but went on in search of McDowell until he found him late the following day. No other officer from King got within range of Pope that night, so far as rigid investigation has ever disclosed, and that none at all came from Pope to King is beyond peradventure. Indeed, in 1878 General Pope declared it was to McDowell that all the orders were sent. General Pope also repeated this statement in a conversation with me in July, 1887, and expressed his regret that this phraseology had not been corrected in his article which appeared in The century magazine for January, 1886.--C. K. As to King's falling back to Manassas Junction, that was the result of the conference between him and his four brigade commanders, and was vehemently urged upon him as the only practicable way to save what was left of the command after the fierce conflict that raged at sunset. King's orders were to march to Centreville, which was object
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., chapter 5.35 (search)
The Grand strategy of the last year of the War. re-arranged from the Grand strategy of the War of the rebellion, by General Sherman, printed in the century magazine for February, 1888, and from a letter by General Sherman to the editor, printed in that periodical for July, 1887. the figures in the text are from Phisterer's Statistical record. (Charles Scribner's Sons.) by William T. Sherman, General, U. S. A. On the 4th day of March, 1864, General U. S. Grant was summoned to Washington from Nashville to receive his commission of lieutenant-general, the highest rank then known in the United States, and the same that was conferred on Washington in 1798. He reached the capital on the 7th, had an interview for the first time with Mr. Lincoln, and on the 9th received his commission at the hands of the President, who made a short address, to which Grant made a suitable reply. He was informed that it was desirable that he should come east to command all the armies of the United Sta
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
ies of the second class in certain contingencies......March 1, 1887 An act providing for the redemption of railroad bonds by Kansas municipalities. It has resulted in the redemption and funding of many million dollars of such bonds......March 5, 1887 Liquor law to suppress the so-called drug-store saloons ......1887 Governor stations 2d Regiment in Stevens county to preserve peace, Sheriff John Cross having been murdered by an armed faction; result of a county seat contest......July, 1887 National farmers' congress and farmers' trust association at Topeka; delegates from all sections of Union......Nov. 4, 1887 Explosion of dynamite bomb at Coffeyville in an express package. The object has remained a mystery, though supposed by some to have been political......Oct. 18, 1888 Legislature appropriates $9,700 for the establishment and maintenance of a silk station and to promote the culture of silk in the State......March, 1889 Convention of delegates from fifteen S
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, XIV: return to Cambridge (search)
on and his cousin, Major Henry Higginson, and musicians sometimes applied to the former for a position in the Symphony Orchestra. He was wont to say that he received everything that was intended for his cousin except cheques. Reporting to his family in their absence various funny stories that he had heard, he added, But best of all was the news that several New York papers have just printed advance puffs of the Symphony Orchestra headed by my picture. He wrote to his brother-in-law, in July, 1887:— Did you hear that I had been invited to be president of the Handel and Haydn Society? Of course I refused, but it seemed as if they wanted a good figurehead with a musical name. If it be not Bran it is Bran's brother, as the Scotch proverb says. Yet Colonel Higginson had a great love of music, and a good, though untrained, tenor voice. He usually sang while dressing in the morning, and often manufactured his own melodies. He composed music to Cleveland's sea-ditty in Scott'
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 44: Secession.—schemes of compromise.—Civil War.—Chairman of foreign relations Committee.—Dr. Lieber.—November, 1860– April, 1861. (search)
ith foreign ministers at Washington, combined to give him rare equipment for the post. Ante, Memoir, vol. i. p. 150. Gideon Welles, in a review of political history in 1875, wrote: Mr. Sumner was a scholar, and better read on the subject of our foreign relations, international law, our treaties and traditions, than any other man in Congress. He better filled the position of chairman of the committee on foreign relations than any of his associates could have done. North American Review, July, 1887, p. 78. The appointment was received with general favor. Works, vol. v. pp. 484, 485. He, as well as other Republican senators, now assumed responsibility for public affairs, and their capacity for legislation was to be tested. Hitherto their work had been chiefly one of criticism, obstruction, and protest; it was henceforth to be initiative and practical. Naturally, Sumner was specially concerned for our representation abroad. He wrote to F. W. Bird, March 10:— There is ch
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 45: an antislavery policy.—the Trent case.—Theories of reconstruction.—confiscation.—the session of 1861-1862. (search)
er of four of our own citizens, but by the manner in which it has been done, and the absence of a sound principle upon which to rest and justify it. . . . We might and should have turned the affair vastly to our credit and advantage; it has been made the means of our humiliation. Gideon Welles wrote of Mr. Seward later: He was always ready, always superficial, not a profound thinker, nor with any pretensions to the scholarly culture and the attainments of Sumner. North American Review, July, 1887, p. 78. The British government received the surrender with the explanation as a sufficient reparation; but Earl Russell, with a view to exclude the inference that Mr. Seward's positions were acquiesced in, replied, Jan. 23, 1862, denying that the Confederate envoys, as diplomatic agents, or their despatches, were contraband of war; and referring to Mr. Seward's assertion as to what would have been done if the safety of the Union required it, he said that Great Britain would not have su
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.14 (search)
feel so unequal to the duty assigned me, I must beg that you will pardon me, if I read what I have to say on this interesting occasion. When 1 recall the names of R. L. Walker, W. J. Pegram, James and Robert Ellett, Greenlee Davidson, John and Ellis Munford, Edward Maynee, Joseph McGraw, G. M. Cayce and a host of others who formed one of the grandest artillery battalions in the Army of Northern Virginia, and who have now passed away, it awakens the tenderest memories of the past. In July, 1887, the Pegram Battalion Association, composed of the surviving members of batteries everyone of which were attached to the brigades forming A. P. Hill's Light Division, and afterwards as Pegram's battalion attached to the same division, and to the Third Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, feeling that it would be becoming and proper in their Association, in the absence of any other organization to take the lead, as well as to show their admiration and love for their old division and corp