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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Vi. Slavery under the Constitution . (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, State of (search)
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Oak woods, battle of
In the Civil War the siege of Richmond had gone on quietly until near the close of June, 1862, when General Heintzelman's corps, with a part of Keyes's and Sumner's, was ordered to move forward on the Williamsburg road, through a swampy wood, for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of the ground beyond, and to place Heintzelman and Sumner in a position to support a proposed attack upon the Confederates at a certain point by General Franklin.
They met a Confederate force, and a fight ensued, in which the brigades of Sickles and Grover, of Hooker's division, bore the brunt.
The Confederates were driven from their encampment, and the point aimed at was gained.
The National loss was 516 men killed and wounded.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Oliver , Andrew 1706 -1774 (search)
Oliver, Andrew 1706-1774
Governor; born in Boston, March 28, 1706; graduated at Harvard in 1724; a representative in the General Court from 1743 to 1746; one of his Majesty's council from 1746 to 1765; secretary of the province from 1756 to 1770; and succeeded Hutchinson (his brother-inlaw) as lieutenant-governor.
In 1765 he was hung in effigy because he was a stamp distributer, and his course in opposition to the patriotic party in Boston caused him to share the unpopularity of Hutchinson.
His letters, with those of Hutchinson, were sent by Franklin to Boston, and created great commotion there.
He died in Boston, March 3, 1774.
See Hutchinson, Thomas.
Paine, Thomas 1737-
Patriot; born in Thetford, England, Jan. 29, 1737.
His father was a Quaker, from whom he learned the business of stay-making.
He went on a privateering cruise in 1755, and
Thomas Paine. afterwards worked at his trade and preached as a Dissenting minister.
He was an exciseman at Thetford, and wrote (1772) a pamphlet on the subject.
Being accused of smuggling, he was dismissed from office Meeting Dr. Franklin, the latter advised him to go to America.
He arrived in Philadelphia in December, 1774, and was employed as editor of the Pennsylvania magazine.
In that paper he published, October, 1775, Serious thoughts, in which he declared his hope of the abolition of slavery.
At the suggestion of Dr. Benjamin Rush, of Philadelphia, it is said, he put forward a powerfully written pamphlet, at the beginning of 1776, in favor of the independence of the colonies.
It opened with the often-quoted words, These are the times that try men's souls.
Its terse, sharp,