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The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 7: Confederate armies and generals (search)
sent to resist the onward march of Sherman through North Carolina, and he participated in the battle of Bentonville. He had previously, December 7, 1864, been appointed major-general. After the surrender at Greensboro, General Butler was paroled, May 1, 1865. Entering politics again after the war, General Butler met with rapid advancement, and was United States Senator from South Carolina from 1877 to 1889. At the outbreak of the Spanish War he was made a major-general of volunteers, May 28, 1898, and served until honorably discharged, April 15, 1899. He was a member of the commission appointed by President McKinley to arrange for the evacuation of Cuba by the Spaniards. General Butler died at Columbus, S. C., April 14, 1909. Major-General William Mahone was born at Monroe, Southampton County, Virginia, December 1, 1826. Graduating from the Virginia Military Institute in 1847, he followed the profession Confederate generals--no. 17 South Carolina John
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cole, Nelson 1833- (search)
Cole, Nelson 1833- Military officer; born in Dutchess county, New York, Nov. 18, 1833; subsequently settled in St. Louis, Mo. When the Civil War broke out he entered the Union army and served with conspicuous ability in numerous engagements. Early in 1865, at the head of 1.500 men, he led a successful expedition against the hostile Sioux, Arapahoe, and Cheyenne Indians at the sources of the Yellowstone River. He was made a brigadier-general of volunteers on May 28, 1898, and given command of the 3d Brigade, 2d Division, at Camp Alger. The unwholesome conditions of the camp caused his resignation, and his death, in St. Louis, Mo., July 31, 1899.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, 1835-1898 (search)
Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, 1835-1898 Author; born in Gallipolis, O., about 1835; widow of Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren. She established and was the vice-president for several years of the Literary Society of Washington; was opposed to woman suffrage, against which she published a weekly paper for two years and also sent. a petition bearing many signatures to Congress, requesting that women should not be given the elective franchise. Popes Pius IX. and Leo XIII. several times thanked her for the various services she had rendered to the Roman Catholic Church. Her publications include Thoughts on Female suffrage; Memoirs of John A. Dahlgren, etc. She died in Washington, D. C., May 28, 1898.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., The second Congregational and Mystic churches. (search)
he result, forty-four being added on confession to the Mystic Church. Upon leaving Medford Mr. Hooker preached one year in Fairhaven, Vt., and then for ten years from 1870 was pastor of the church in Middlebury. Jan. 12, 1880, he was installed pastor of the Eliot Church in Lawrence, Mass., from which he was compelled by impaired health to resign in 1883. Dec. 23, 1883, he began a ministry in Winter Park, Fla., and was installed there Jan. 23, 1886, and held the pastoral office till May 28, 1898. Through his untiring efforts Rollins College was founded in Winter Park in 1885. He became its first president, and held that office for seven years. He was also the president of the Florida Home Missionary Society for eleven years. From overwork in these responsible positions he was completely broken down in health and energy and compelled to seek recuperation in the most quiet way possible. He now resides in Marshfield, Mass. Solon Cobb. Rev. (now D. D.) Solon Cobb, the fift