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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 27 (search)
most ably and daringly supporting his Colonel, fell severely wounded, but I trust and pray not fatally; for never was there a truer heart, never was there a bolder arm, never was there a brighter or sounder brain. It is impossible, however, for me to enumerate, in the terms of affectionate appreciation I desire, and which they deserve, the losses which the brigade has incurred. Hereafter, should an opportunity be afforded me, I shall write and speak of such men as Lieutenants Buckley and Birmingham-men who on that day, at Fredericksburgh, most worthily supplied the place of the officers who fell on the battlefields before Richmond, and in the great repulse of the rebels at Antietam. Looking along the ranks of the Eighty-eighth New-York volunteers, as I did with a mournful pride, the day after the assault, I missed, besides Major William Horgan, Lieut. Thomas Murphy, Adjutant John R. Young, and Lieut. McCarthy; and the only consolation to me in the contemplation of these losses ari
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
e brooch. Shoe-buckles were introduced into England during the reign of Charles II. （1670). These, as well as knee-buckles, were generally made of silver, — sometimes of gold, — adorned with precious stones, but are now disused, except as ceremonial or uniform dresses in some parts of Europe. The principal use of buckles is for fastening the different straps of harness and horse equipments, for which purpose immense numbers are made, forming a considerable branch of trade, of which Birmingham is the metropolis. Much the greater part of harness-buckles are either japanned or plated, the former being used for wagon, cart, and the commoner kinds of harness generally; and the latter for carriage-harness. The plating material is usually brass, though many silver-plated buckles are manufactured. Buckles are also made of bright malleable iron, and of blued iron; the latter are the kind employed in horse equipments for the cavalry in the United States Service. Buckles are <
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
omorrah? Brimstone and fire. What became of Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon, and all the great empires and states of antiquity? Any Sunday—school scholar can answer these questions. They did wrong; they persisted in wrong; they insulted God and ground his helpless ones into the dust. They were foretold their fate; they met it, and wound up their history, falling charred corpses into their sepulchres; and future Layards and Champollions have busied themselves in digging away with Birmingham picks and spades, to heave up from the ashes of ages some few remains of these triflers with the divine humanity. Modern history tells the same story; for God is just as much the Governor of all the earth to-day, as he was before the Caesars. No new dispensation has been granted to nations. It is graven among the pandects of eternity that the nation that will not serve me shall perish. Heaven's code never changes. The decisions of that Court of final Appeals are never reversed.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxvi. (search)
omorrah? Brimstone and fire. What became of Babylon and Nineveh, Tyre and Sidon, and all the great empires and states of antiquity? Any Sunday—school scholar can answer these questions. They did wrong; they persisted in wrong; they insulted God and ground his helpless ones into the dust. They were foretold their fate; they met it, and wound up their history, falling charred corpses into their sepulchres; and future Layards and Champollions have busied themselves in digging away with Birmingham picks and spades, to heave up from the ashes of ages some few remains of these triflers with the divine humanity. Modern history tells the same story; for God is just as much the Governor of all the earth to-day, as he was before the Caesars. No new dispensation has been granted to nations. It is graven among the pandects of eternity that the nation that will not serve me shall perish. Heaven's code never changes. The decisions of that Court of final Appeals are never reversed.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.15 (search)
ave been a suicidal attempt on their part to pass through that excited crowd of enemies with thirty or more Lincoln marines at their back and around them. Lieutenant Birmingham, of the Crescent Reserves, who was standing on the wharf, said to them: Gentlemen, you must not land without a flag of truce, and must not take any men as an escort either. One of them answered with an oath: If we are not allowed we shall fire. Lieutenant Birmingham replied that he would protect them to the City Hall, but they must take no hirelings with them. They cursed him and told him that they should fire. Said he: Fire, then, baring his own breast to them. They, however, sscorted them safely through the infuriated crowd—three of them went—into the presence of the City Council. Although blamed by some hot-headed fools, still Lieutenant Birmingham did only his duty. They brought with them another demand from Commodore Farragut for the immediate surrender of the city, and that we should pull down our
The Daily Dispatch: December 06, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
rcer, of Louisiana, and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, would conciliate the authorities and the people of South Carolina; command their respectful treatment and consideration, ensure the wholesome influence of the sober second thought of the entire South, and restore hope, confidence and amity to the whole country." Effect at the North. We hear of large establishments reducing work which it may not be proper now to name. In Bridgeport, upwards of 1,000 employees are out of work, and in New Haven 2,000. Dunbar's hoop skirt factory at Bristol has stopped work. The Plantation Hoe Company, and the Southern Carriage Company, both of Winsted, have had large Southern orders countermanded. The stoppage of the Birmingham Iron and Steel Works is the worst blow to that village which Birmingham has ever experienced. The prospect is that many branches of business in this and other Northern States will be prostrated the coming winter.-- Hartford Times.
The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1865., [Electronic resource], Foreign Literary intelligence. (search)
ich the "Heir of Redclyffe" and the "Trials," both translated by C. Kolb, have already appeared, Charles Reade's "Hard Cash" has also been translated into German by M. Scott, and Miss Braddon's "Henry Dunbar" and "The Doctor's Wife" are likewise to appear shortly in German. Very shortly, John Stuart Mill and Alfred Tennyson are to be balloted for as honorary members of the Royal Society of Scotland. Some curious old deeds and leases have been discovered in the office of a firm of Birmingham solicitors, bearing dates between 1573 and 1662, relating to property adjoining Shakespeare's house, in Henley street, Stratford-upon-Avon, two of which bear the signature of John Shakespeare, the father of the poet, and in several of which William Shakespeare himself is mentioned as the owner of property. These documents, for the present, are deposited in the museum at Stratford. A marble bust of the author of "Vanity Fair" will shortly be placed close behind the effigy of Joseph Ad