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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, October (search)
Gazette, Oct. 23. The Committee of the City Council, of Philadelphia, Pa., presented a sword of honor, on behalf of the city, to General Robert Anderson. In compliance with orders issued by the War Department at Richmond, Virginia, Colonel Adler, a Polish officer, recently attached to the Wise Legion, in Western Virginia, as an engineer, with the commission of colonel, was arrested by the Government detectives and conveyed to the Columbian Hotel, where, in consequence of his weak conlf-inflicted wound, he was permitted to remain upon parole until yesterday forenoon, when he was taken to the prison hospital as a prisoner. The charges preferred against him are that of the spy, and of holding communication with the enemy. Colonel Adler went to Richmond highly recommended as an officer of ability, who had served with distinction in the Hungarian war, and in the Italian struggle under Garibaldi, and upon these representations obtained a commission in the army. His unaccounta
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 21: beginning of the War in Southeastern Virginia. (search)
of contemporary and subsequent events, the historian is constrained to believe that the disaster on that day was chargeable more to a general eagerness to do, without experience in doing, than to any special shortcomings of individuals. View in the main Street of Hampton in 1864. this is a view from the main Street, looking northwest toward the old church, whose ruins are seen toward the left of the picture, in the back-ground. The three huts in front occupy the sites of the stores of Adler, Peake, and Armistead, merchants of Hampton. The one with the wood-sawyer in front was a barber's shop The writer visited the battle-ground at Great Bethel early in December, 1864, in company with the father of Lieutenant Greble and his friend (F. J. Dreer), who was with him when he bore home the lifeless body of his son. We arrived at Fortress Monroe on Sunday morning, December 11, 1864. and after breakfasting at the Hygeian Restaurant, near the Baltimore wharf, we called on General
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 8: Education. (search)
rench: Collot's Chefs d'oeuvre Dramatiques. Italian: Ollendorff's Grammar; La Gerusalemme Liberata. Mathematics: Bridge's Conic Sections. Senior class.--First Term.--Physics: Chemistry, with Lectures. Intellectual Philosophy: Wayland's. Political Economy: Wayland's. Rhetoric: Whately's Logic; Themes; Forensics; Original Declamations. Elective Studies.--Latin: Terence's Andria; Translations from Greek into Latin. Greek: Sophocles' Antigone; Translations from Latin into Greek. German: Adler's Ollendorff and Reader. Mathematics: Davis's Linear Perspective. Second Term.--Physics: Mineralogy and Geology, with Lectures. Political Economy: Wayland's. Natural and Revealed Religion: Butler's Analogy. Rhetoric: Lectures on the English Language and Literature; Themes; Declamations. Elective Studies.--Latin: Cicero pro Cluentio. Greek: Demosthenes de Corona. German: Schiller's Thirty Years War; Gothe's Iphigenia. Spanish: Ollendorff's Grammar; Novelas Españolas. Mathematics: D
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 117 (search)
eld on the right. Toward evening the rebels opened with artillery inflicting some injury. The Second division of the Fifteenth corps losing seven and the Fourth twenty-one men; two men of battery A--veterans of battery B--were hit, John Haddock, killed, and J. Delevan mortally wounded. General Gresham, commanding the Fourth division of the Seventeenth corps, was severely wounded in the leg. I believe his leg was amputated. Captain Hoover, of General Logan's staff, had his horse shot, and Adler, sutler at corps headquarters lost an arm. General Logan himself narrowly escaped the rebel shell. The bringing up and straightening of the lines used up the day. The right and centre advanced across Peach-tree creek and within a short distance of Atlanta. Briefly as I can state it that was the day's work. There was heavy picket firing all night and as I write at seven A. M., the whole line is firing on the centre; the firing indicates work. Cars are running all night, and every few mi
Col. Robert White, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.2, West Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: (search)
osecrans as a column leader. General Wise, though jubilant over his victory, realized the difficulty of his position, and on the 19th sent Maj. C. B. Duffield to Richmond with official reports and a letter, in which he complained bitterly of hostile feeling of the inhabitants of the valley, and of the difficulty of defending a position threatened by over 3,000 Federals at the Pocotaligo, 1,500 from Ripley to Sissonville, and forces from the north by Summersville. He had an engineer, Colonel Adler, a Hungarian, a man of consummate ability, science and bravery, aided by Prof. Thomas I. L. Snead, of William and Mary, and Lieut. J. B. Harvie. We are throwing up breastworks and defenses at every pass and mean never to be taken, he added. But on the 24th the fears of General Wise regarding the weakness of his position were justified. Cox, by a circuitous advance among the hills, came upon the Confederate rear at Elk or Tyler mountain, and as soon as the outposts were driven in Wise
The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Federal outrages at Hampton. (search)
clamation, though it may have been made in sincerity, was for any practical purpose. not worth the paper on which it was written; for, right in the face of it the sanctity of our homes has been violated, and property stolen and destroyed. The houses and stores of our citizens have been broken open and almost everything of value either taken away or want only destroyed. Among those who have been the chief sufferers, are Colonel Carey S. Jones, Major. J. B. Carey, Dr.Banks, George M. Bates, Adler, Wm.S. Smith, I vey, Cansey, Sinclair, and others. After stealing all the poultry, pigs, &c., from Colonel. Jones, the vandals went through his house and deliberately destroyed his furniture, smashing his piano, mirrors, bureaus, tables, &c., &c., with the butts of their muskets. Col. J. went to the camp of Col. Duryea to make a statement of his grievance, and had the satisfaction of an assurance that if he would point out the guilty parties they should be severely punished !! To show
The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], What does it mean? (search)
acher of modern languages, and one of the best writers of the day. He is ardently devoted to the Southern cause, and we saw him the other day marching westward through Lewis burg, armed and equipped in the most approved style, as a foot soldier. Capt. Buckholtz, a German, and a highly accomplished Artillery officer. He has written a work on the subject. His knowledge and practical skill are very thorough in the department of the military science to which he has devoted himself. Col. Adler, an Italian, from Garibaldi's army. He is a magnificent Cavalry officer.--A commission was tendered him by Lincoln, as Colonel of Cavalry; but he preferred to serve the Southern Confederacy. He declares that he "never fights for the Government, but for the people;" "never for prerogative, always for liberty. " He is a man of great physical prowess, and an officer of great experience. Gen. Henningsen and Col. Frank Anderson. These officers have a fresh and extensive fame in our own c
The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald upon the Situation. (search)
Attempted suicide of Col. Adler. --The following extract of a letter from a gentleman in the Brigade of Gen. Wise gives information concerning Col. Adler, known to some of our citizens as a soi sant Garibaldian officer, who officiated for a time as engineer in Gen. Wise's column, where he was looked upon with distrust, retCol. Adler, known to some of our citizens as a soi sant Garibaldian officer, who officiated for a time as engineer in Gen. Wise's column, where he was looked upon with distrust, returned to this city, and again made an effort to attach himself to our Western forces: "A person calling himself Col. Adler, and who had represented himself as having been a Hungarian officer, came in the full uniform of a Colonel in the Confederate service, into the camp of the infantry and artillery of the Wise Legion, commaCol. Adler, and who had represented himself as having been a Hungarian officer, came in the full uniform of a Colonel in the Confederate service, into the camp of the infantry and artillery of the Wise Legion, commanded by Col.Hen. at Degwood Gap. He claimed to have been sent by President Davis to Gen. Floyd. As it had been recently ascertained that he was an arrant impostor, being really as illiterate German Jew, and as he was strongly suspected of being a spy, he was asked for his pass or commission. Having none to show, he was sent in
The Daily Dispatch: October 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Suspected. (search)
Suspected. --We are informed that Colonel Adler, who came here some time ago from Washington, claiming to have been an officer under Garibaldi in Italy, and was temporarily attached to Gen. Wise's command, has been a second time arrested by order of the Secretary of War.
The Daily Dispatch: November 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway--ten dollars reward. (search)
Examination of prisoners. --Col. Adler. who came here in offer his services to the South, representing himself to have been an officer under Gar and was subsequently arrested as a spy, has had a hearing before Commissioner Lyons. Also Ex-Lieut lower of the McC Rangers, who resigned his commission and attempted to go to Philadelphia. when he was arrested. He pleads in justification that he was going to look after an in which his family has an interest. The Commissioner opinion has not been made public in reference to either case.
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