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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 1 1 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 11: the Montgomery Convention.--treason of General Twiggs.--Lincoln and Buchanan at the Capital. (search)
aloupe River. But the vigilance and activity of the patriotic Colonel Nichols, Twiggs's Assistant Adjutant-General, who watched his chief with the keen eye of full suspicion, foiled The Alamo. this is a very old building. It was a church, erected by the Spaniards, and was afterward converted into a fortress. There, during the war for the independence of Texas, many Americans, who had joined the Texans in the struggle, were massacred by the Mexicans. Among those who fell were Colonel David Crockett, and Colonel Bowie, the inventor of the famous Bowie-knife, so much used by desperadoes in the Southwest them. He duplicated the orders, and sent two couriers by different routes. One of them was captured and taken back to San Antonio, and the other reached Waite, with the order, on the 17th of February. Twiggs was cautious and had adroitly avoided committing himself to treason in writing. He always said to the impatient Commissioners :--I will give up every thing. But the ti
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alamo, Fort, (search)
ttack was made by the entire forces of the besiegers; twice they assaulted the posts, and were as often driven back with heavy loss by the Texan troops. A hand-to-hand encounter ensued, which the Texans, few and feeble. were unable to sustain, and but six of their devoted band remained. Among this number was the famous Davy Crockett. who. with the others, surrendered, under promise of protection; but when they were taken before Santa Ana were, upon his command. instantly cut to pieces, Crockett having been stabbed by a dozen swords. Other barbarities were committed, such as collecting the bodies of the slain in the centre of the Alamo, and, after horribly mutilating the remains, burning them. Only three persons, a woman, a child, and a servant, were spared. A few weeks after Santa Ana was routed with immense loss, and himself captured in the battle of San Jacinto, where the Texans raised the war cry, Remember the Alamo! It is estimated that during the siege of Fort Alamo the M
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bowie, James, 1790- (search)
Bowie, James, 1790- Military officer; born in Burke county, Ga., about 1790; took an active part in the Texas revolution, and in January, 1836, was ordered to San Antonio de Bexar, where he joined Colonels Travis and Crockett, and was killed with then at the taking of the Alamo (q. v.), March 6, 1836. He was inventor of the Bowie knife.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
ns for the impending struggle began in all parts of the republic, and very soon hostile armies came in contact. The first overt act of war was committed by the Confederates in Charleston Harbor at the beginning of 1861 (see Star of the West). The last struggle of the war occurred in Texas, near the battle-ground of Palo Alto, on May 13, 1865, between Confederates and the 63d United States regiment of colored troops, who fired the last volley. The last man wounded in the Civil War was Sergeant Crockett, a colored soldier. The whole number of men called into the military service of the government in the army and navy during the war was 2,656,553. Of this number about 1,490,000 men were in actual service. Of the latter, nearly 60,000 were killed in the field and about 35,000 were mortally wounded. Diseases in camp and hospitals slew 184,000. It is estimated that at least 300,000 Union soldiers perished during the war. Fully that number of Confederate soldiers lost their lives, whi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crockett, David 1786- (search)
Crockett, David 1786- Pioneer; born in Limestone, Greene co., Tenn., Aug. 17, 1786. With little education, he became a noted hunter in his early life; served under Jackson in the Creek War; was a member of Congress from 1828 to 1834, and removed to Texas in the latter year, where he became zealously engaged in the war for Texan independence. While fighting for the defence of the Alamo (q. v.) he was captured and put to death by order of Santa Ana, March 6, 1836.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Libraries, free public (search)
1850, when the free public library was started, the number of newspapers and periodicals published in the United States was about 2,500; now it is nearly 20,000. The total annual issues have increased from 400,000,000 to over 4,500,000,000 copies. The ordinary daily of 1850 contained perhaps a single column of literary matter. To-day it contains, for the same price, seven columns. In 1850 it gave no space to fiction; now it offers Kipling, Howells, Stockton, Bret Harte, Anthony Hope, Crockett, Bourget, and many others of the best of the contemporary writers of fiction. Then there are the cheap magazines, which tender a half-dozen stories for the price of a cigar or a bodkin. There are, also, the cheap libraries, which have flooded the United States with engaging literature available to almost any purse. In short, conditions have altered. A vast mass of light literature is now cheaply accessible to the individual which formerly could be acquired only painfully, or at grea
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Travis, William Barrett 1811- (search)
1830 and began practice in Claiborne, Ala.; went to Texas about 1832 and later joined the Texas army and fought for the independence of that territory. With 140 men he defended Fort Alamo (the old mission station of San Antonio de Valerio) against 4,000 Mexicans, Feb. 23, 1836. The place was stoutly defended for ten days; numerous appeals were made for aid, but only thirty-two men succeeded in passing the Mexican lines. After frequent attacks had been repulsed with great slaughter a handto-hand fight occurred on March 6, in which the Texans were not overcome until only six of their number were left alive,. including Travis, David Crockett, and James Bowie. These surrendered after a promise of protection had been made, but when they were taken before Santa Ana, near San Antonio, on the same day he gave orders to cut them to pieces. Shortly afterwards, during the battle at San Jacinto, where the Mexicans met a bloody defeat, the battle cry was Remember the Alamo. See Alamo, Fort.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
y killed except four, who afterwards die of injuries there received......Dec. 28, 1835 Treaty with the Cherokee Indians in Georgia; they cede all their territory east of the Mississippi for $5,000,000......Dec. 29, 1835 Memorial presented to Congress praying for the abolition of slavery within the District of Columbia......Jan. 11, 1836 Texas declares her independence......March 2, 1836 Mexicans under Santa Ana capture the Alamo, San Antonio, Tex., and massacre the garrison. David Crockett killed here......March 6, 1836 Battle of San Jacinto, defeat of Santa Ana.......April 21, 1836 Mexico acknowledges independence of Texas......May 14, 1836 House resolves, by a vote of 117 to 68, that everything presented to that body in any way relating to slavery or its abolition shall be laid on the table without further action or notice......May 26, 1836 [This was the first of the gag rules of Congress.] Arkansas admitted as the twenty-fifth State......June 15, 1836
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
nd signed by ninety-one Texans at Goliad......Dec. 20, 1835 General Santa Ana, with 6,000 troops, leaves Monclova for Texas to drive out revolutionists and persons of foreign birth......Feb. 4, 1836 Town of Bexar taken by Mexicans, and the Texans retire to the Alamo......Feb. 21, 1836 Declaration of independence adopted by a convention at Washington on the Brazos River......March 2, 1836 Alamo invested eleven days by Santa Ana; the garrison, under Colonel Travis, Bowie, and David Crockett, are overpowered and massacred......March 6, 1836 Mexicans defeated in the first fight at the Mission del Refugio by Texans under Captain King......March 9, 1836 Second fight of the Mission del Refugio; Colonel Ward attacks and drives back the Mexicans......March 10, 1836 Constitution adopted for the Republic of Texas by a convention which met at Washington, March 1......March 17, 1836 Col. J. W. Fannin and 415 men, captured at Coleto by the Mexicans under General Urrea, are
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
y Indian atrocities, gave his whole life to a career of ruthless vengeance. For the play founded on this novel, see Book II, Chap. II. The great romance of Kentucky, however, while perpetuated by no single novel or novelist, centres round the life and character of Daniel Boone, who became, by the somewhat capricious choice of tradition, a folk hero, standing among other pioneers as Leather-Stocking stands among native characters of fiction. A similar, though smaller, fame belongs to David Crockett of Tennessee, who comes somewhat closer to literature by the fact of having written an Autobiography (1834). The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. In 1834, however, Albert Pike (1809-91) published in his Prose sketches and poems some vivid tales of life in the South-west. That same year appeared Calavar, in writing which B
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