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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 4 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Medals. (search)
reighton, Low, and StoufflerRescuing 500 passengers from the S. S. San Francisco. July 26, 1853. Creighton of the Three Bells, Glasgow; Low, of the bark Kelly, of Boston; and Stouffler, of the ship Antarctic, LiverpoolGold. Medals awarded by the Congress of the United States—Continued. Date of Resolution.To whom presented.For what service.Metal. March 2, 1867Cyrus W. FieldLaying the Atlantic cableGold. March 16, 1867George PeabodyPromotion of educationGold. March 1, 1871George F. RobinsonSaving William H. Seward from assassination, April 14, 1865. Besides the medal, $5,000Gold. Feb. 24, 1873Capt. Crandall and others, Long Island light-house keeper and crewSaving passengers from the Metis, of the New York and Providence line, Aug. 31, 1872Gold. June 16, 1874Centennial medals June 20, 1874Life-saving medals. 1st and 2d classThere have been presented as awards for life-saving since the passage of the resolution 167 gold and 209 silver medals up to July 1, 1892Gold & silver
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Tariff legislation. (search)
ose of July, 1897. This was chiefly due to Western Senators, who refused to aid the Republican tariff plans unless that party would support free-silver legislation. The Wilson tariff was chiefly noted for its free-wool (raw) provision, while one of the leading features of the McKinley law was its reciprocity clause, the text of which was as follows: Section 3. With a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after July 1, 1892, whenever and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, impose duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
gress authorizes the President to proclaim a general holiday commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America......June 29, 1892 John W. Foster, of Indiana, confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of State......June 29, 1892 Gen. John Bidwell, of California, nominated for President, and J. B. Cranfell, of Texas, for Vice-President, by the Prohibition Convention......June 30, 1892 Lock-out of strikers at the Carnegie Steel Company's mills at Homestead, Pa., begins......July 1, 1892 Catholic Sioux Congress opens at the Cheyenne agency, South Dakota; 6,000 Sioux Indians present......July 3, 1892 First National Convention of the People's party meets at Omaha, Neb., July 2; H. L. Loucks, of South Dakota, permanent chairman. Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, nominated for President, July 4; Gen. James G. Field, of Virginia, for Vice-President......July 5, 1892 Congress appropriates $50,000 for site and pedestal for a statue of Gen. W. T. Sherman......July 5, 1892
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
y the Confederate advance in the assault of July 3, at Gettysburg, dedicated......June 2, 1892 Dam at Spartansburg bursts, and gasoline, from tanks broken by the rushing waters, ignites on the surface of Oil Creek, between Titusville and Oil City; over 100 lives lost......June 5, 1892 Rev. Father Mollinger, famous for reputed cures on St. Anthony's day, dies at Pittsburg, aged seventy years......June 15, 1892 Lockout of strikers at mills of the Carnegie Steel Company begins......July 1, 1892 Governor Pattison orders the entire division of National Guard to Homestead......July 10, 1892 Chairman Crawford, Hugh O'Donnell, John McLuckie, and thirty others, members of the advisory committee of the Amalgamated Association, are arrested on charge of treason against the commonwealth of Pennsylvania......Sept. 30, 1892 Strike at Carnegie Steel Mills, Homestead, declared off......Nov. 20, 1892 Ex-Gov. Henry M. Hoyt dies at Wilkesbarre......Dec. 1, 1892 Agitation regardin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 9 (search)
uly 4 to Dec. 11, 1861. Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, Feb. 18 to July 5, 1862, from Aug. 9, 1862, to June 8, 1863, from Nov. 21, 1863, to Aug. 8, 1864. First Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, 54th Mass. Infantry, Aug. 8, 1864; mustered, Aug. 16. Major, Surgeon, 104th U. S. Colored Infantry, June 14, 1865. Mustered out, Feb. 5, 1866. Acting Assistant Surgeon, 8th U. S. Infantry, 1867 to 1869. Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Army, Oct. 17 to Dec. 22, 1868. Died at McKeesport, Penn., July 1, 1892. Redlon, Cyrus F. Born in Massachusetts. Musician, 3d Minn. Infantry, Sept. 27, 1861. Re-enlisted, Dec. 23, 1863. Second Lieutenant, 113th U. S. Colored Infantry, May 19, 1865. Mustered out, Apr. 9, 1866. Revere, William H., Jr. See General Officers. Rice, George L. Residence in Massachusetts at time of enlistment. First Lieutenant, Assistant Surgeon, 4th U. S. Colored Heavy Artillery, Oct. 8, 1863. Discharged, May 25, 1864. Rice, Marshall Newton. Private, Cor
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Addenda. (search)
be expected of Ben. May, as all who knew him can testify. I well remember, too, and can never forget, how, not many days after this battle, when he had received his mortal wound at Spotsylvania Courthouse, my heart was melted while shaking, in our last good-bye, the poor fellows hand, hot with the lever that I knew must and which did in a few hours burn out his noble life. To the foregoing the following letter from Major Andrew Dunn, of Petersburg, may be added: Petersburg, Va., July 1, 1892. Mr. George S. Bernard: dear Sir—you have requested me to give you my recollection of the wounding of General Longstreet in the Battle of the Wilderness. As a member of his staff—I was one of his aidede-camp, I was within a few feet of him at the time he was wounded. We were on our horses on the plank-road. A few minutes previously I had suggested to him that he was exposing himself very much, I thought. That is our businees, was his reply, which silenced me. When the volley, a sho