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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arkansas (search)
13, 1874 New constitution proclaimed......Oct. 30, 1874 [Governor's term reduced from four to two years. Office of lieutenant-governor abolished, president of the Senate substituted.] Election frauds and outrages occur......1888 C. R. Breckinridge, Democrat, and John M. Clayton, Republican, contest the 2d Congressional District......1888 John M. Clayton assassinated at Plummersville......Jan. 29, 1889 [He claimed to have been elected, and was collecting evidence to contest the in favor of State for $50,000......Feb. 8, 1894 [First trial, October, 1891, of exState Treasurer William E. Woodruff, the jury disagree; the second trial, April, 1892, verdict, not guilty, the accused released.] United States Senate confirms the President's appointment of Congressman C. R. Breckinridge to be minister to Russia......July 20, 1894 Ex-Governor Elisha Baxter dies at Batesville, Ark.......June 2, 1899 The anti-trust law declared unconstitutional......1900 California
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of the Lee Memorial Association. (search)
ary Institute; seventh, specially invited guests; eighth, members of the Lee Memorial Association. Among the more notable persons present on the platform were Generals Wade Hampton, of South Carolina; J. A. Early, of Virginia; William Smith, (the last war Governor of Virginia); William Terry, of Wytheville, Virginia; George H. Steuart, of Maryland; M. D. Corse, R. D. Lilly, Fitzhugh Lee, G. W. Custis Lee, W. H. F. Lee and F. H. Smith, of Virginia; Judge H. W. Bruce, of Kentucky; Hon. C. R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas; Mrs. Stonewall Jackson and her daughter, Miss Julia; Mrs. J. E. B. Stuart and her daughter, Miss Virginia; Mrs. General George E. Pickett; Mrs. J. M. Carlisle, widow of General Anderson of Kentucky; E. V. Valentine the sculptor, and his wife; Mrs. General E. G. Lee; Mrs. Margaret J. Preston; Mrs. W. H. F. Lee and her two boys; Captain Robert E. Lee; W. W. Corcoran Esq., of Washington; Father Ryan, Colonel T. M. R. Talcott and Colonel H. E. Peyton, former members of Gen
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Last letters and telegrams of the Confederacy—Correspondence of General John C. Breckinridge. (search)
Last letters and telegrams of the Confederacy—Correspondence of General John C. Breckinridge. [We are indebted to Hon. C. R. Breckinridge for copying and verifying from the originals the following letters and telegrams which were among the last in the official correspondence of his distinguished father, the last Secretary of War of the Confederacy:] Greensboroa, April 25th. Hon. J. C. Breckinridge,—The officers named shall be sent. J. E. Johnston, General This paper is endorsed as follows in my father's handwriting: Mill. Papers, April, 1865. They did not come. Greensboroa, Apl. 26, 7 A. M. General J. C. Breckinridge, Secretary War,—I am going to meet General Sherman at the same place. J. E. Johnston, General Greensboroa, April 24th. Hon. Jno. C. Breckinridge, Sec. War,—I telegraphed you yesterday that Gen'l Sherman informed me he expected his messenger to return from Washington to-day. Please answer. J. E. Johnston, General Greensboroa, Apl. 24th.