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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., Preface. (search)
he former devoting the more time to the work during the months of organization, and the latter having entire charge of the editing for nearly the whole of the second year. The course of the series in magazine form was from November, 1884, to November, 1887. That the plan and the time of the enterprise were alike fortunate, may be estimated from the unprecedented success of the articles. Within six months from the appearance of the first battle paper, the circulation of The Century advancednd, Recorder of the Massachusetts Commandery, and General Albert Ordway have rendered valuable aid in connection with the Brady and the Gardner photographs and in other ways. The importance of accuracy has been kept constantly in view in the preparation of the illustrations — a laborious work which has been executed under the direction of Mr. Alexander W. Drake, Superintendent, and Mr. W. Lewis Fraser, Manager, of the Art Department of The Century Co. the editors. New York, November, 1887
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., The opening of the lower Mississippi. (search)
Porter, United States Navy, Commanding Mortar Fleet.--Sir: Upon mature deliberation, it has been decided to accept the terms of surrender of these forts, under the conditions offered by you in your letter of the 26th inst., viz., that the officers and men shall be paroled — officers retiring with their side-arms. We have no control over the vessels afloat. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Edward Higgins, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding. Admiral Porter says in a recent note [November, 1887] that he never received this letter. In his official report, dated April 30th, 1862, he says: On the 28th a flag of truce came on board the Harriet Lane proposing to surrender Jackson and St. Philip on the terms offered. Editors. General Duncan told me that he had no authority whatever over the naval vessels, and that, in fact, Commander Mitchell, of the regular naval forces, had set the military authorities at defiance. So I waived the point, being determined in my own mind wha
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2., chapter 8.61 (search)
lonel Colburn) and three orderlies, I struck across country to intercept the column on our right by the shortest line. It was a little after dark when I reached the column. I leave to others who were present the description of what then occurred: the frantic cheers of welcome that extended for miles along the column; the breaking of ranks and the wild appeals of the men that I should then and there take them back on the line of retreat and let them snatch victory out of defeat. In November, 1887, George Kimball of Boston wrote to the editors: Though a quarter of a century has passed since those darkest days of the war, I still retain a vivid remembrance of the sudden and complete change which came upon the face of affairs when General McClellan was restored to command. At the time, I was serving in Company A, 12th Massachusetts Volunteers, attached to Ricketts's division of the First Army Corps. The announcement of McClellan's restoration came to us in the early evening of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delagoa Bay, (search)
ngineer of Kentucky, received from the King of Portugal an extremely liberal concession for the construction of a railroad from Lorenzo Marques to the Transvaal frontier, a distance of 57 miles. This concession also included the grant of large tracts of land along the projected route, the territory upon which much of the town of Lorenzo Marques now stands, an island in Delagoa Bay, and certain commercial privileges along the shore. By the aid of British capital the road was completed in November, 1887, to what the Portuguese engineers certified was the border of the Transvaal. In 1889 the Portuguese government served notice on Colonel McMurdo that the real frontier was 6 miles further inland, and that if the road was not built to that point within four months it would be seized by Portugal. Before McMurdo's side of the controversy could be heard, Portugal confiscated the entire property (June, 1889). The United States, in behalf of the McMurdo interests, united with England to comp
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Minnesota, (search)
e Treasury......March 5, 1881 State normal school located by law at Moorhead......1885 State public school for dependent children at Owatonna founded......1885 State insane hospital located at Fergus Falls......1886 Acts passed: For a State reformatory at St. Cloud; a municipal government for Duluth; a high-license law where local option does not prohibit, and to abolish the State board of immigration, created in 1878......1887 Soldiers' home opened at Minnehaha Falls......November, 1887 State normal school at Moorhead opened......Aug. 29, 1888 William Windom again Secretary of Treasury......March, 1889 Secret (Australian) ballot law, established in cities of over 10,000 inhabitants, by act......1889 State reformatory at St. Cloud opened......September, 1889 Memorial Day (May 30) made a legal holiday......1889 Nearly 100 lives lost by a tornado on Lake Pepin......July 13, 1890 State insane hospital at Fergus Falls opened......July 29, 1890 William
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Dakota, (search)
a at Fargo protest against the State constitution framed by a convention at Sioux Falls, Sept. 4, 1883, for Dakota, with the 46th parallel for northern boundary......Sept. 12, 1883 Act for admission of State of Dakota passes the United States Senate, the remainder of the Territory to be called Lincoln......1884 North Dakota University at Grand Forks, chartered in 1883, opened......1884 Majority in Territory vote for separation of South Dakota; North Dakota voting against it......November, 1887 Legislature of Dakota Territory passes a local option law......1887 Fargo College, at Fargo, chartered and opened......1887 Convention at Watertown favors the division, the northern portion to form the State of North Dakota......Dec. 5, 1888 Admission act, for a convention at Bismarck, July 4, 1889, to form a constitution and to divide with South Dakota the institutions, debts, records, etc., of the Territory, signed......Feb. 22, 1889 Seventy-five delegates elected May 14
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Dakota, State of (search)
ge at Brookings opened......1884 Dakota University at Mitchell opened......September, 1885 Constitutional convention called by the legislature at Sioux Falls frames a constitution for South Dakota......Sept. 25, 1885 Legislature passes a local option law......1887 School of mines at Rapid City, established by act of legislature in 1885, is opened......1887 A majority vote for the division of Dakota Territory into two States, North and South Dakota, at an election held......November, 1887 Act admitting South Dakota signed, a constitutional convention to meet at Sioux Falls, July 4, 1889......Feb. 22, 1889 Election held by proclamation of territorial governor, A. C. Mellette, April 15, 1889, for delegates to a constitutional convention to meet July 4, and the Sioux Falls constitution of 1885 favored by 37,710 votes to 3,414......May 14, 1889 Sioux Falls constitution amended and adopted by a convention at Sioux Falls, July 4, which adjourns......Aug. 5, 1889 Cha
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
ent from it, and which has often distinguished or disfigured men who have done immortal work in letters or served mankind in eminent statesmanship; and even warriors, exclusively men of action, have not been exempt from it. Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1887), vol. IX. p. 718. A. W. Ward's Chaucer (English Men of Letters), p. 147. Those curious in such matters may find a collection of self-estimates by famous people in Justin S. Morrill's Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons. This is known to schoo a comment on John Adams, which in substance corresponds with the text. When power exists in a man, he will rarely fail to know it. Merit and modesty, it has been wittily said, have nothing in common but the initial letter; Atlantic Monthly (Nov. 1887), vol IX. p. 718. and a German thinker has written that no one can be blind to his own merit any more than to his height. Schopenhauer. A reviewer of Macaulay, Quarterly Review, July and Oct. 1876, p. 6. who was also accused of an inordi
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 52: Tenure-of-office act.—equal suffrage in the District of Columbia, in new states, in territories, and in reconstructed states.—schools and homesteads for the Freedmen.—purchase of Alaska and of St. Thomas.—death of Sir Frederick Bruce.—Sumner on Fessenden and Edmunds.—the prophetic voices.—lecture tour in the West.—are we a nation?—1866-1867. (search)
ia and Denmark. The treaty then slept a long sleep, from which it has never waked. The unhappy negotiator, Raasloff, went out of office with his ministry, which was discredited by the failure, and leaving his country, soured with disappointment, passed the remainder of his life in France, Italy, and Germany, dying at Passy in 1883. Later Administrations have not been tempted to renew a negotiation which in Mr. Seward's hands proved to be a diplomatic fiasco. In Scribner's Magazine, November, 1887 (pp. 587-602), a lady, not of kin to Mr. Seward, but adopting his name, published an article entitled A Diplomatic Episode, full of insinuations which had no basis of fact, and of untrue statements as to the action of the Senate and of its committee, as shown by the records and Raasloff's own letters. The article appeared while the Senate records and files were under the injunction of secrecy but on that being removed, Jan. 5, 1888, it was found that not one of the entries she had state
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, chapter 18 (search)
Appendix I: the rejected treaty for St. Thomas. this reply by the biographer to Miss Seward's paper was published in 1889. in this reprinting a few omissions are made to prevent repetition of what has already been stated (Ante, vol. IV. pp. 328, 329). Scribner's Magazine (November, 1887) contained a paper entitled A Diplomatic Episode, by Miss Olive Risley Seward, which undertakes to narrate the negotiations with Denmark for the purchase of the islands of St. Thomas and St. John in 1866-1869 by Mr. Seward (then Secretary of State), and the connection of the Senate committee on foreign relations (Mr. Sumner being chairman) with its consideration and failure of ratification. With many words, the introduction of superfluous incidents and assertions of facts not verified by reference to sources, she gives an air of mystery to what was a plain transaction and a very simple question. A map is inserted, as if to produce an optical illusion, on which a number of straight lines con
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