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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 1 1 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 1 1 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4., The opposing forces in the Atlanta campaign. May 3d-September 8th, 1864. (search)
oft, Lieut. A. J. Young; Mo. Battery, Capt. Houston King; S. C. Battery, Lieut. R. B. Waddell. first division Georgia militia, Maj.-Gen. Gustavus W. Smith (who has supplied the following paragraph): First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. R. W. Carswell: 1st Regt., Col. E. H. Pottle; 2d Regt., Col. C. D. Anderson: 5th Regt., Col. S. S. Stafford; 1st Batt'n, Lieut.-Col. H. K. McCay. Second Brigade, Brig.-Gen. P. J. Phillips: 3d Regt., Col. Q. M. Hill; 4th Regt., Col. R. McMillan; 6th Regt., Col. J. . Burney; Artillery Battalion, Col. C. W. Styles. Third Brigade, Brig.-Gen. C. D. Anderson. Fourth Brigade, Brig.-Gen. H. K. McCay. (The Third and Fourth Brigades were formed after the Reserves joined, during the siege of Atlanta. The organizations of these two brigades are not found in any accessible data.) losses. According to the report of Medical Director A. J. Foard (See Johnston's Narrative, pp. 576-578), the losses of the Confederate Army in the Atlanta campaign amounted to 3044 kille
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 86 (search)
om the woods, we found near us several regiments of Confederate troops, and here halted, as there was no General officer present, we having become separated from our brigade in coming through the woods. While waiting here, a regiment of the enemy, which proved to be the Third New Jersey, emerged from the woods on our right. Fire was immediately opened upon it, and it fled precipitately, and were nearly all captured by some regiments of our troops, stationed to the right of our brigade. Major Burney, of the Third New Jersey, and several non-commissioned officers and privates, here fell into our hands. We remained at this point some time, (probably half an hour,) when General Lawton came to us, and was personally cognizant of affairs from that time until the firing ceased for the night. I would respectfully mention to the Brigadier-General commanding the efficient aid rendered the field officers by Adjutant B. F. Keller, who was at all times at his post, regardless of danger. I w
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
as a motor for time-pieces was invented by the Germans, and was rendered necessary to confer portability upon the invention. It was first placed on the arbor of the great wheel and a supplementary spring opposed the former during the first part of its unwinding. This was intended to counteract the inequality. The fusee was afterwards introduced. A watch with a fusee, made in 1525, by Lech, of Prague, was in London a few years back. Musical or chiming clocks were invented in Germany. Burney notices them as early as 1580. In 1544, the corporation of master clock-makers of Paris obtained a statute from Francis I., forbidding non-admitted persons to make clocks, watches, or alarums, large or small. Benjamin Franklin's clock is noted as being the simplest on record. It shows the hours, minutes, and seconds, and yet contains but three wheels and two pinions in the whole movement. The lowest wheel has 160 teeth, and makes one revolution in four hours. It carries the hand on
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
er between the strings and the jacks. Tarquin of Paris first substituted buff leather for the quills in 1768. Schobert had a double tier of strings with additional sounding-board. Wieglet introduced metallic tongues in 1724; Silbermann, a mechanism like the clavichord to strike the string at its midlength, by which the harmonic sounds were heard at the same time the whole string was sounded. Stein invented the vis-a-vis, or double harpsichord, which was played by a performer at each end. Burney refers to a transposing harpsichord of 1760: By drawing out the keys the hammers are transferred to different strings, by which means a composition is transposed half a note, a whole note, or a flat third lower at pleasure. In 1730 Harris took an English patent for his harpsichord, with two sets of strings, on which may be played either one unison or two; or two unisons and an octave together, and the Fortes and the Pianos, etc. Plenius, in 1741, also refers to the forte and piano capacity
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, II: an old-fashioned home (search)
give. I was glad to receive your knife, for I wanted it very much. Tell brother Stephen that I took the schooner that I was making when he came here, to pieces. I am now making a sloop instead of it. I think this is a pretty long letter, so Goodbye. Love to all. Your affectionate nephew, Wentworth. Dear Aunt Nancy,— I have just been reading Pride and prejudice and Horse-Shoe Robinson, a book by the author of Swallow barn, both which are very entertaining. I have also read Miss Burney's Cecelia. To his mother he thus recounted his doings:— I will now tell you of our May party. We met on the 30th of April at 5 A. M. just down by Thornton's to choose a queen ... Afterwards we went to Mount Auburn and walked and played until 10 o'clock when we came home. ... I forgot to say that as [we] were going to Mount Auburn we stopped a little while at Mrs. Foster's and she gave us some cake. We found no flowers except half blown anemones. Dearly-Beloved Mother, T
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Fanny Fern-Mrs. Parton. (search)
rea, and Matelda Tambroni were honored with degrees, and filled professors' chairs in the University of Bologna; but as far as I have been able to ascertain, by the most careful researches, not one of these learned ladies ever furnished an article for the Ledger every week for fourteen years., Corinna, for her improvisations, was crowned at the Capitol in Rome with the sacred laurel of Petrarch and Tasso; but she never furnished an article every week for the Ledger for fourteen years. Miss Burney, Miss Porter, Mrs. Radcliffe, Miss Austin, Miss Baillie, Miss Mitford, Miss Landon, Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Marsh, Mrs. Gaskell, and the Brontes did themselves and their sex great honor by their literary labors; but not one of them ever furnished an article for the Ledger every week for fourteen years. Neither Mrs. Lewes nor Mrs. Stowe could do it, George Sand wouldn't do it, and Heaven forbid that Miss Braddon should do it! Why, to the present writer, who is given to undertaking a good deal
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, A letter to a young contributor. (search)
popular writers use far less slang than the English,--yet do not shrink from Americanisms, so they be good ones. American literature is now thoroughly out of leading-strings; and the nation which supplied the first appreciative audience for Carlyle, Tennyson, and the Brownings, can certainly trust its own literary instincts to create the new words it needs. To be sure, the inelegancies with which we are chiefly reproached are not distinctively American: Burke uses pretty considerable ; Miss Burney says, I trembled a few ; the English Bible says reckon, Locke has guess, and Southey realize, in the exact sense in which one sometimes hears them used colloquially here. Nevertheless, such improprieties are of course to be avoided; but whatever good Americanisms exist, let us hold to them by all means. The diction of Emerson alone is a sufficient proof, by its unequalled range and precision, that no people in the world ever had access to a vocabulary so rich and copious as we are acqui
The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
d, 2. Total wounded, 16.--Total wounded and missing, 3. Company G.--Killed: Capt Beanland: Privates Beard and Doak. Wounded: Lieut W G Nelms; Sgts J G Goodwin and Wyatt; Privates G W Delbridge, W B Delbridge, W B Cullen, F L Hope, J Doak, A G Burney, C C Boyd, R W. Black, J Listenby, R N Mitchel, Pat Nagle, W J Stowers, Jno White, J E Talbert, Rigger, J B Orr, T Burney, A J Raglan, S W Dooley. Missing: Privates Market. B A Shaw, G Smither, Hartgrove. Total killed, 3. Total wounded 22. ToBurney, A J Raglan, S W Dooley. Missing: Privates Market. B A Shaw, G Smither, Hartgrove. Total killed, 3. Total wounded 22. Total missing, 4. Company H.--Wounded: Lieut Reld; Sgt R T Hobson; Corporals R G Steele, R N Lyon, Geo Shaw; Privates J N Carothers, J C Carothers, J B Freeman, W R Holland J H Jackson, F P Knox, J G Marable, W H Marable, W M McBee, B F Owen, G M Mathis, W P Moffit, A E Robinson, P W Roland. Wounded and Missing: Privates D N Smith, J G Loften, S F Paden, S A Gater. Total wounded, 23 Killed none. Company I.--Killed: 1st Serg't L J Morgan, Serg't R A Shell, Privates J J Gillespie, J J Blanc
The Daily Dispatch: September 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
of Friday: Yesterday morning the Federal ram, Monarch, and the gunboat Luther No. 3, went up the Yazoo river. At 3 o'clock in the evening one or two others were seen going up. Our preparations in that quarter are ample to meet and repel the enemy. Yesterday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, the enemy's mortar boats below here opened fire upon our batteries. They were laying off near the Louisiana shore, and it is also supposed that they have a land battery of two guns on shore near Mr. Burney's place. They kept up a vigorous bombardment for three hours, and averaged about one shell a minute. At first their aim was directed at our batteries, but afterwards they commenced throwing, their shells indiscriminately in every direction, nearly all falling short. Some came within a short distance of the city; some fell in the river, and some were seen to fall in DeSoto. Our batteries escaped injury, and nobody was hurt. Some old houses below the city were struck, but no serious dam
The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
o was recommended for his post in the New York Custom-House by Greeley and others, and was appointed a member of the State Central Committee for his devotion to the nigger. The exposure took place through the detection and arrest of Lewis Benjamin, engaged in the same business. The New York Times, in its report of the arrest. says: The check book of Benjamin was found inside, with marginal references showing that a number of checks had been drawn in favor of A. M. Palmer. Collector Burney's private secretary, from sums varying from $150 to $250 each. There were some other papers found tending to show considerable intimacy between the parties, and one of these in Palmer's handwriting, on the official paper of the Custom-House, read: "Dear Benjamin Send me $150 immediately. I wish to use it at once." Yours, Palmer. The other evidences against the accused have not yet been given out, but as soon as they were discovered, Marshal Murray and Naval Officer Dennison