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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883 (search)
Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883 Medical officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 21, 1817; was appointed an assistant surgeon in the army in 1840; assigned to duty in the office of the surgeon-general in 1861; became surgeon-general in 1863; attended Presidents Lincoln and Garfield; brevetted major-general in 1865. At his suggestion the Army Medical Museum and the Surgeon-General's Library were established. He died in Washington, D. C., April 5, 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (search)
disaster to the rebel cause, that it was merely the repulse of an attack on a strongly defended position. The tremendous losses on both sides are a sufficient answer to this misrepresentation, and attest the courage and obstinacy with which, in three days, battle was waged. Few of the great conflicts of modern times have cost victors and vanquished so great a sacrifice. On the Union side there fell, in the whole campaign, of generals killed, Reynolds, Weed, and Zook, and wounded, Barlow, Barnes, Butterfield, Doubleday, Gibbon, Graham, Hancock, Sickles, and Warren; while of officers below the rank of general, and men, there were 2,834 killed, 13,709 wounded, and 6,643 missing. On the Confederate side there were killed on the field, or mortally wounded, Generals Armistead, Barksdale, Garnett, Pender, Petigru, and Semmes, and wounded, Heth, Hood, Johnson, Kemper, Kimball, and Trimble. Of officers below the rank of general, and men, there were taken prisoners, including the wounded, 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
roved......March3, 1883 Forty-seventh Congress adjourns......March 4, 1883 Alexander H. Stephens, born 1812, dies at Atlanta, Ga.......March4, 1883 Envoys from the Queen of Madagascar presented to President Arthur in Washington......March 7, 1883 Postmaster-Gen. T. O. Howe, born 1816, dies at Kenosha, Wis.......March 25, 1883 Four survivors of the Jeannette arrive at New York......March 27, 1883 Peter Cooper, born 1791, dies at New York City......April 4, 1883 Brig.-Gen. Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon-General of the United States army, 1864-82, dies at Washington, D. C.......April 5, 1883 Ex-Senator William P. Kellogg, of Louisiana, indicted for complicity in starroute frauds by grand jury at Washington......April 18, 1883 Irish-American National Convention at Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia; nearly 1,600 delegates; Alexander Sullivan, of Chicago, president......April 26, 1883 New civil service rules published by the President......May 8, 1883 New York a