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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, January (search)
ed, who would pick off the garrison, man by man, thus giving an opportunity to a party of infantry to scale the walls of the fort. Such a storming, however, could only be accomplished by an immense sacrifice of life; and the only practicable mode of taking the fort would seem to be by a protracted siege, and by the unchristian mode of starving them.--South Carolinian. Major Anderson's course was sustained in the House of Representatives to-day, by the following resolution, offered by Mr. Adrian, of New Jersey: Resolved, That we fully approve the bold and patriotic act of Major Anderson in withdrawing from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, and the determination of the President to maintain that fearless officer in his present condition; and we will support the President in all constitutional measures to enforce the laws and preserve the Union. To-day the arrest of Senators Toombs and Wigfall, on the charges of treason, for sending dispatches to the South recommending the seizu
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.47 (search)
had entered was now closed, and receiving another fire from that point, they again turned to the left and took refuge in the woods near the base of Round Top. When the last turn to the left was made, about half a dozen of their number separated from the main body and escaped by running the gauntlet to the right of the 1st Texas regiment. Farnsworth, with his little handful of gallant followers, rode upon the skirmish-line of the 15th Alabama regiment, and, pistol in hand, called upon Lieutenant Adrian, who commanded the line, to surrender. The skirmishers in return fired upon him, killing his horse and wounding Farnsworth in several places. [See p. 393.] General Longstreet, aware of the danger that threatened our right from the attack of Kilpatrick's division, came over to my position late in the afternoon and expressed:his satisfaction at the result and the promptness and good conduct of the troops engaged. We had all day held our front line, gained the evening before, and wi
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
use the swords of the former bent after a blow or two, and required straightening by the foot, while the superior metal of the Romans stood the brunt. Strabo mentions that one of the exports of Britain was iron; the bold islanders met their invaders with scythes, hooks, broadswords, and spears of iron. The arrival of the Romans and the introduction of artificial blast, which the Romans had derived from their Eastern neighbors, gave a great impulse to the iron works of England. Under Adrian, A. D. 120, a fabrica or military forge was established at Bath, in the vicinity of iron and wood. During the Roman occupation of England, some of the richest beds of iron ore were worked, and the debris and cinders yet exist in immense beds to testify to two facts: one, that the amount of material worked was very great; the other, that the plans adopted were wasteful, as it has since been found profitable to work the cinder over again. During the Saxon occupation the furnaces were s
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], Counting the Presidential vote. (search)
Counting the Presidential vote. --The U. S. Senate, on Saturday, passed a joint resolution appointing a committee to count the vote of the Electoral College for President and Vice President of the United States. The House concurred and the committee was appointed as follows: On the part of the Senate, Messrs. Trumbult, Foote and Latham; on the part of the House, Messrs. Washburne, Adrian, Ely, Anderson and Craig.
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], Congressional debate, Wednesday. (search)
meaning of the Constitution relative to African slavery, and proposing amendments to the Constitution to the following effect: To establish a dividing line similar to the Missouri Compromise, prohibiting Congress from passing laws interfering with the inter-State slave trade, or the rights of slaveholders in transition temporarily sojourning in non-slaveholding States, and declaring that all State laws in any degree impairing or infringing on the Fugitive Slave law are null and void. Mr. Adrian submitted a series of resolutions declaratory of the doctrine of non-intervention as the true remedy. That all State laws in conflict with the Constitution and laws of Congress ought to be repealed. That the Fugitive Slave Law and all other laws of the land ought to be respected and obeyed, and no obstacle thrown in the way of their execution. That the Constitution is the result of conciliation and compromise, and can only be preserved by the exercise of a similar spirit. Mr. Morri
The Daily Dispatch: July 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], The great Eastern at Quebec (search)
7) Cor. of the London Times.] Consummaium est. Count Cavour died this morning at seven o'clock. It was understood yesterday that the night would be critical, and the issue of the crisis was scarcely doubtful, as the sufferer had not rallied in the morning, as had been the case with him in the previous days. All power of reaction had left him, and the new attack of fever was sure to find him powerless. The Romans, it is said, crowned on the Capitol the physician who rid them of Pope Adrian VI. The Italians of our own day would honestly hang Count Cavour's doctors if the execution would afford any relief to their feelings. There never was a clearer case of a man murdered by his medical attendants. With a very short period of five days they attempted to cure the Count of four or more different complaints — digestion of the brain, typhus fever, intermittent pernicious fever, brain fever, dropsy, and lastly gout; and for all these diseases they could think of nothing but the
The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Shooting Affair at Loudon. (search)
Shooting Affair at Loudon. --Col. Adrian of the cavalry service, and well known in Lynchburg, Va., was shot and dangerously wounded by Capt. Arnold, of his battalion, Monday, at London, Tenn. The difficulty originated in a personal quarrel.
The Daily Dispatch: May 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], England and the Confederacy (search)
Capt. Arnold, of the Confederate army, has been condemned by court-martial at Knoxville and sentenced to be shot, for killing Maj. Adrian, some months since. He is a young man and brave soldier; much sympathy is felt for him, and the entire Congressional delegation from Tennessee have interested themselves to procure his pardon.