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Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life 1 1 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 1 1 Browse Search
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 1 1 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union 1 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dakota, (search)
med a part of Minnesota Territory. It was a portion of the great Louisiana purchase in 1803. The Nebraska Territory was formed in 1854, and comprised a part of what became Dakota. The latter Territory was organized by act of Congress, approved March 2, 1861, and included the present States of Montana and Washington. In 1863 a part of the Territory was included in Idaho, of which the northeastern part was organized as Montana in 1864, and the southern part was transferred to Dakota. In 1868 a large area was taken from Dakota to form Wyoming Territory. The first permanent settlements of Europeans in Dakota were made in 1859, in what were then Clay, Union, and Yankton counties. The first legislature convened March 17, 1862. Emigration was limited until 1866, when settlers began to flock in, and population rapidly increased. In 1889, two States were created out of the Territory of Dakota, and admitted to the Union as State of North Dakota (q. v.) and State of South Dakota (q. v.).
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 (search)
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 Statesman; born in Christian county, Ky., June 3, 1808; graduated at West Point in 1828; served as lieutenant in the Black Hawk War (q. v.) in 1831-32, and resigned in 1835 to become a cotton-planter in Mississippi. He was a member of Congress in 1845-46, and served as colonel of a Mississippi regiment in the war with Mexico. He was United States Senator from 1847 to 1851, and from 1857 to 1861. He was called to the cabinet of President Pierce as Secretary of War in 1853, and remained four years. He resigned his seat in the Senate in January, 1861, and was chosen provisional President of the Southern Confederacy in February. In November, 1861, he was elected permanent President for six years. Early in April, 1865, he and his associates in the government fled from Richmond, first to Danville, Va., and then towards the Gulf of Mexico. He was arrested in Georgia, taken to Fort Monroe, and confined on a charge of treason for about two years, when he wa
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davis, John Lee, 1825-1889 (search)
Davis, John Lee, 1825-1889 Naval officer; born in Carlisle, Ind., Sept. 3, 1825; joined the navy in 1841; served with the Gulf blockading squadron in 1861 as executive officer of the Water Witch; and on Oct. 12 of that year took part in the action with the Confederate ram Manassas, and in that with the fleet near Pilot Town. During the remainder of the war he was active in other engagements. He was promoted rear-admiral, and retired in November, 1886. He died in Washington, March 12, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Day, William Rufus, 1849- (search)
Day, William Rufus, 1849- Statesman; born in Ravenna, O., April 17, 1849; graduated at the University of Michigan in 1870: studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1872; began practice at Canton, O.; served as judge in the court of common pleas in 1886-90; appointed judge of the United States district court for the northern district of Ohio in 1889, but resigned before taking office on William Rufus day. account of ill health. In March, 1397, he was made assistant Secretary of State, and on April 26, 1898, succeeded John Sherman as head of the department. While in the State Department he had charge, under the President, of the delicate diplomatic correspondence preceding and during the war with Spain, and of the negotiation of the protocol of peace. After the latter had been accepted Judge Day was appointed chief of the United States peace commission, his place as Secretary of State being filled by John Hay, recalled as American ambassador to Great Britain. After the rati
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 (search)
Deane, Charles, 1813-1889 Historian; born in Biddeford, Me., Nov. 10, 1813; became a member of the chief historical societies of the country; author of Some notices of Samuel Gorton; First Plymouth patent; Bibliography of Governor Hutchinson's publications; Wingfield's discourse of Virginia; Smith's true relation; and editor of Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delagoa Bay, (search)
ques 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 controvJune, 1889). The United States, in behalf of the McMurdo interests, united with England to compel Portugal to make proper reparation, and Portugal consented to have the dispute settled by arbitration. The tribunal was organized in Berne, Switzerland, in 1890, but it was not till March 29, 1900, that a conclusion was reached. The total award to the claimants was $3,202,800, with interest from 1889, and by a compromise the heirs of Colonel McMurdo were awarded $500,000 towards the close of 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Delaware, (search)
14th1813 to1817 Nicholas Van Dyke15th to 19th1817 to1827 Caesar A. Rodney17th1821 to 1823 Thomas Clayton18th to 19th1824 to 1827 Daniel Rodney19th1826 Henry M. Ridgely.19th to 20th1827 to 1829 Louis McLane20th to 21st1827 to 1829 John A. Clayton21st to 23d1829 to 1835 Arnold Naudain.21st to 23d1830 to 1836 Richard H. Bayard24th to 28th1836 to 1845 Thomas Clayton24th to 29th1837 to 1847 John M. Clayton29th to 30th1845 to 1849 Name.No. of CongressDate. John Wales30th to 31st1849 to 1851 Presley Spruance30th to 32d1847 to 1853 James A. Bayard32d to 38th1851 to 1864 John M. Clayton33d to 34th1853 to 1856 Joseph P. Comegys34th1856 Martin Bates35th1858 Willard Saulsbury36th to 41st1859 to 1871 George Read Riddle38th to 40th1864 to 1867 James A. Bayard40th1867 to 1869 Thomas Francis Bayard41st to 48th1869 to 1885 Eli Saulsbury42d to 50th1871 to 1889 George Gray49th to 56th1885 to 1899 Anthony Higgins51st to 54th1889 to 1895 Richard R. Kenney54th to 56th1897 to 1901
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wright, Henrietta Christine, (search)
eceive committed children, all except three having between 300 and 1,300 inmates each. Within twenty years after this law passed the number of inmates in the twenty-seven institutions benefited directly by it increased from 9,000 to 16,000. In 1889, of the 20,384 children cared for in the city institutions, only 1,776 were orphans and 4,987 half-orphans. The remaining 13,621 had been committed by magistrates, many on the request of parents, or had been brought by parents voluntarily to the boys. The State has two industrial schools, the Lyman School for Boys, and the State Industrial School for Girls. There are also two reform schools. With these exceptions, the dependent children of Massachusetts are placed or boarded out. In 1889 California paid $231,215 for the support of 36,000 children in asylums, while Michigan, with double the population of California, paid only $35,000 for the support of 230 children. In 1893, California, still working under the old system, paid $25
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dickinson, Don M., 1846- (search)
Dickinson, Don M., 1846- Lawyer; born in Port Ontario, N. Y., Jan. 17, 1846; settled in Michigan in 1848; graduated at the Law Department of the University of Michigan in 1866; began practice in Detroit; member of the Democratic National Committee in 1884-85; served as Postmaster-General of the United States in 1888-89. He was appointed senior counsel for the United States before the Bering Sea Claims Commission in 1896.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Donaldson, Edward, 1816-1889 (search)
Donaldson, Edward, 1816-1889 Naval officer; born in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 17, 1816; joined the navy in 1835; during the Civil War he took part in the capture of New Orleans, the passage of Vicksburg, the battle of Mobile Bay, etc.; was promoted rear-admiral Sept. 21, 1876, and retired a few days later. He died in Baltimore, Md., May 15, 1889.
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