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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 146 (search)
, and other points on the Mobile and Ohio Road. A force was sent from Canton north-east to prevent our crossing Pearl River, and another force of infantry and cavalry was sent from Brookhaven to Monticello, thinking we would cross Pearl River at that point instead of Georgetown. Expeditions were also sent from Vicksburgh, Port Gibson, and Port Hudson, to intercept us. Many detachments were sent out from my command at various places to mislead the enemy, all of which rejoined us in safety. Colton's pocket map of the Mississippi, which, though small, is very correct, was all I had to guide me, but by the capture of their couriers, despatches, and mails, and the invaluable aid of my scouts, we were always able by rapid marches to evade the enemy when they were too strong, and whip them when not too large. Colonel Prince, commanding the Seventh Illinois, and Lieutenant-Colonel Loomis, commanding the Sixth Illinois, were untiring in their efforts to further the success of the expediti
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 128 (search)
Capt. Gibson, led the charge, with wearied and some reluctant soldiers, to victory. Here we took forty-two prisoners, and routed many more. Captain Gibson was shot in both hands. One only of our boys was killed, but many wounded. Our losses are sixteen killed and sixty wounded. The rebel killed is full one hundred and fifty, and their wounded four hundred. We took one hundred and fifty prisoners, and lost about fifty. I can't tell you all, but must say that Quartermaster Bissell, Colton's successor, acting as my aid, lost his arm and shoulder by my side, and died soon after. The brave old hero, Capt. McClanahan, fell at the same moment. A. C. Harding, Colonel Commanding. Colonel Lowe's order. headquarters U. S. Forces, Forts Henry, Hieman, and Donelson, February 9, 1863. Colonel: I desire to express to you, and through you to the officers and soldiers of your command, the warmest thanks for gallant behavior during the action of the third instant. Attacked by
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 88 (search)
terward. The Fourth thus lost his valuable services. This gallant regiment, which has never been surpassed by any troops in the world, for gallantry, subordination, and propriety, was commanded by the heroic Captain Marsh, and, after his fall, by the equally heroic Captain Latham, who shared the same fate. All the officers of this noble regiment, present at Sharpsburg, were killed or wounded. Their names deserve to be preserved. Captains Marsh, Latham, and Osborne, Lieutenants Stansill, Colton, Allen, Parker, Brown, Weaver, Crawford, and Bonner, Sergeants John Troutman, and J. W. Shinn, Corporals J. A. Cowan, and H. H. Barnes, and private J. D. Barton, of this regiment, were greatly distinguished for their courage. Private J. B. Stinson, of same regiment, acting as courier to General Anderson, was wounded in three places at Sharpsburg, and there, as on every other battlefield, behaved most nobly. Colonel Bennet, of the Fourteenth North Carolina, commends Captains Jones, Freeman,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
90,340ClemonsMay 25, 1869. 91,292WellsJune 15, 1869. 91,922DinsmoreJune 29, 1869. 93,010RogersJuly 27, 1869. 93,540JonesAug. 10, 1869. 94,175BensterAug. 31, 1869. 95,362LewisSept. 28, 1869. 102,469AlterMay 3, 1870. 103,159DodgeMay 17, 1870. 103,318FisherMay 24, 1870. 109,612GrimesNov. 29, 1870. 109,668Rogers et al.Nov. 29, 1870. 111,199GrimesJan. 24, 1871. 112,245HerterichFeb. 28, 1871. 112,327DufourMar. 7, 1871. 113,669HowardApr. 11, 1871. 116,056HowardJune 20, 1871. 117,152Colton et al.July 18, 1871. 117,557MoschcowitzAug. 1, 1871. 117,716AlterAug. 8, 1871. 118,109Cotton et al.Aug. 15, 1871. 118,110Cotton et al.Aug. 15, 1871. 118,111Cotton et al.Aug. 15, 1871. 118,145PalmerAug. 15, 1871. 118,412WellsAug. 22, 1871. 118,913DeckerSept. 12, 1871. 119,102ArmstrongSept. 19, 1871. (Reissue.)4,556AlterSept. 19, 1871. 119,350HallSept. 26, 1871. 120,966HalladayNov. 14, 1871. 121,293MattersonNov. 28, 1871. 121,366HewittNov. 28, 1871. 124,086RobertsFeb. 27, 18
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, New York Volunteers. (search)
e Tatnall's Flotilla January 28. Battery Vulcan February 4. Siege operations against Fort Pulaski, Ga., February to April. Bombardment and capture of Fort Pulaski April 10-11. Operations on James Island June 1-28. Actions on James Island June 10 and 13. Battle of Secessionville June 16. Evacuation of James Island and movement to Hilton Head June 28-July 7. Expedition from Hilton Head to Pocotaligo, S. C., October 21-23 (Cos. F and G ). Coosawhatchie October 22. Colton's and Frampton's Plantation October 22. Duty at Hilton Head, S. C., till April, 1863. Operations on Folly Island, S. C., against Morris Island and Charleston till July. Attack on Morris Island July 10. Assaults on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, July 11 and 18. Siege of Forts Wagner and Gregg, Morris Island, and against Fort Sumpter and Charleston July 18-September 7. Bombardment of Fort Sumpter and Charleston August 17-23. Vinegar Hill August 26. (Co. K built Fort Duane
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 2: school days in Hartford, 1824-1832. (search)
d. In a letter to her son written in 1886, speaking of this period of her life, Mrs. Stowe says: Somewhere between my twelfth and thirteenth year I was placed under the care of my elder sister Catherine, in the school that she had just started in Hartford, Connecticut. When I entered the school there were not more than twenty-five scholars in it, but it afterwards numbered its pupils by the hundreds. The school-room was on Main Street, nearly opposite Christ Church, over Sheldon & Colton's harness store, at the sign of the two white horses. I never shall forget the pleasure and surprise which these two white horses produced in my mind when I first saw them. One of the young men who worked in the rear of the harness store had a most beautiful tenor voice, and it was my delight to hear him singing in school hours:--When in cold oblivion's shade Beauty, wealth, and power are laid, When, around the sculptured shrine, Moss shall cling and ivy twine, Where immortal spirits reig
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, The lost arts (1838). (search)
even those of France or Italy, of which we think so highly. Taking the metals, the Bible in its first chapters shows that man first conquered metals there in Asia; and on that spot to-day he can work more wonders with those metals than we can. One of the surprises that the European artists received, when the English plundered the summer palace of the King of China, was the curiously wrought metal vessels of every kind, far exceeding all the boasted skill of the workmen of Europe. Mr. Colton of the Boston Journal, the first week he landed in Asia, found that his chronometer was out of order, because the steel of the works had become rusted. The London Medical and Surgical Journal advises surgeons not to venture to carry any lancets to Calcutta,--to have them gilded, because English steel could not bear the atmosphere of India. Yet the Damascus blades of the Crusades were not gilded, and they are as perfect as they were eight centuries ago. There was one at the London Exhibi
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 9: organization: New-England Anti-slavery Society.—Thoughts on colonization.—1832. (search)
which binds her to the Union, and the scenes of St. Domingo would be witnessed throughout her borders. She may affect to laugh at this prophecy; but she knows that her security lies in Northern bayonets. What madness in the South to look for greater safety in disunion! It would be worse than jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire. It would be jumping into the fire from a fear of the frying-pan [i.e., Northern meddling with slavery] (Ex-President Madison to Henry Clay, June, 1833, in Colton's Private Correspondence of Clay, p. 365). Nay, she has repeatedly taunted the free States with being pledged to protect her. . . . How, then, do we make the inquiry, with affected astonishment, What have we to do with the guilt of slavery? This inquiry rested much less heavily with Mr. Garrison's townsmen, especially the respectable and then ruling portion, than this other: How shall we justify ourselves to our Southern brethren for tolerating the Liberator? Accordingly, at the opening
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 32: the annexation of Texas.—the Mexican War.—Winthrop and Sumner.—1845-1847. (search)
Henry Clay, the Whig candidate for President at the last preceding election, then in private life, said that the preamble falsely attributed the commencement of the war to the act of Mexico; and added, no earthly consideration would have ever tempted or provoked me to vote for a bill with a palpable falsehood stamped on its face. Almost idolizing truth as I do, I never, never could have voted for that bill. Speech at Lexington. Ky., Nov. 13, 1847. National Intelligencer, November 25. Colton's Last Years of Henry Clay, p. 62. Corwin publicly expressed regret for his vote for it in the Senate. Speech at Carthage, Ohio, September, 1847, printed in Boston Whig, Oct. 7, 1847. The American Review, a magazine devoted to the defence of the principles of the Whig party, strongly condemned the action of the Whigs in voting for the bill. May, 1847, p. 435 (Charles King). The National Intelligencer, the national Whig organ at the capital, and more than any other journal of the time r
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), List of Virginia chaplains, Army of Northern Virginia. (search)
List of Virginia chaplains, Army of Northern Virginia. First Army Corps. Lieutenant-General Longstreet, Pickett's Division. Steuart's Brigade—Ninth Regiment, J. W. Walkup and G. W. Easter; Thirty-eighth Regiment, R. W. Cridlin and Rev. Mr. Cosby; Fifty-third Regiment, W. S. Penick, P. H. Fontaine and Rev. Mr. Colton; Fifty-seventh Regiment, J. E. Joyner; Fourteenth Regiment, Rev. Mr. Crocker; Twenty-fourth Regiment, W. F. Gardner. Hunter's Brigade—Eighth Regiment, T. A. Ware and George W. Harris; Eighteenth Regiment, J. D. Blackwell, Nineteenth Regiment, P. Slaughter; Twenty-eighth Regiment, Rev. Mr. Tinsley; Fifty-sixth Regiment, Rev. Mr. Robbins. W. R. Terry's Brigade—First Regiment, Rev. Mr. Oldrick; Third Regiment, Rev. Mr. Hammond and J. D. Ward; Seventh Regiment, John H. Bocock, F. McCarthy and Rev. Mr. Frayser; Eleventh Regiment, John C. Granberry and Thomas C. Jennings. Corse's Brigade—Fifteenth Regiment, P. F. August; Seventeenth Regiment, John L. John
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