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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, A Sabbath gathering. (search)
ancying that it would be easily taken, and that no resistance would be offered, six of Pate's men started on the expedition. At the time this party approached Prairie City, the people of that place and vicinity were congregated in the house of Dr. Graham to hear preaching, the doctor himself being a prisoner in the camp at Black Jack. They could watch as well as pray, however. There were some twenty men present, and most of them, after the old Revolutionary pattern, had gone to church with thf scathless, and got back to tell a frightful story to Pate about the other men being killed — horribly! &c. Their less lucky companions were merely taken prisoners of war. One of them, however, had come very near getting his quietus. A son of Dr. Graham, a boy of about eleven years, seized his father's double-barrelled gun at the first alarm, and hurried out to the fence, the Missourians, who were all thus taken aback, being immediately outside of it. The daring boy, with his Kansas blood up,
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Pate's prisoners and the wounded. (search)
This guard was in great trepidation. The prisoners had thrown themselves on the ground, and the trembling guard also lay down, taking care to get the person of Dr. Graham between his own precious carcass and the enemy. So matters were, when the ruffian to whom I have alluded went to the tent with fierce oaths. Dr. Graham saw hiDr. Graham saw him approach with ferocious expression, and, just at that moment, the ruffian raised his pistol, aiming at the Doctor, who gave a spring just as the piece went off, the ball hitting him in the side, and inflicting a flesh wound. Graham sprang into the ditch of the ravine; and, as he did so, received another ball in his hip. He brokGraham sprang into the ditch of the ravine; and, as he did so, received another ball in his hip. He broke from the camp and fled, fifteen pistol shots being fired after him by the person who first attacked him, assisted by the guard. He got off without further injury, and joined his friends on the hill. The firing had lasted three hours. Only two Free State men were wounded. One of them was shot in the arm, in the early part of
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.27 (search)
know, all bruised about the head, and with his throat partly cut, after he had been dragged, sick, from the house of Ottawa Jones, and thrown over the bank of the Ottawa Creek for dead. About the first of September, I, and five sick and wounded sons, and a son-in-law, were obliged to lie on the ground, without shelter, for a considerable time, and at times almost in a state of starvation, and dependent on the charity of the Christian Indian I have before named, and his wife. I saw Dr. Graham, of Prairie City, who was a prisoner with the ruffians on the 2d of June, and was present when they wounded him, in an attempt to kill him, s he was trying to save himself from being murdered by them during the fight at Black Jack. I know that numerous other persons, whose names I cannot now remember, suffered like hardships and exposures to those I have mentioned. I know well that on or about the 14th of September, 1856, a large force of Missourians and other ruffians, said by Gove
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 3: through Harper's Ferry to Winchester—The Valley of the Shenandoah. (search)
h, been given to the world. This noted commander was moved with doubts and perplexities. Now he was ready to hazard everything to make good his promise to the people of Winchester that the Yankees should not enter their town; and then, more prudent considerations prevailing, he would resolve to retire, only again to reconsider, with renewed agitation. Life of General (Stonewall) Jackson, by Esten Cooke, p. 106. On the night of the eleventh of March Jackson entered the house of a Rev. Mr. Graham, of Winchester, with whose family he was intimate. Here he called for a Bible, read aloud, and prayed with the family. Then suddenly rising, he said, I will never leave Winchester without a fight! never, never! He stood looking at his astonished auditors a moment, and then, his excitement disappearing, his sword was driven back with a ringing clash into its scabbard,1 and in tones of profound discouragement he said, No, I cannot sacrifice my men. I intended to attack the enemy on
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders., Chapter 40: (search)
iversal plundering simultaneous with it went unchecked, and was plainly part of the object attained through the means of fire. The burning of Columbia was but of a piece with Sherman's record, and the attempt to exculpate him in this particular is but little consistent and plausible in view of his general conduct from the moment when he entered South Carolina. He had burned six out of every seven farmhouses on the route of his march. Before he reached Columbia, he had burned Blackville, Graham, Ramberg, Buford's Bridge, Lexington, and had not spared the humblest hamlet. After he left Columbia, he gave to the flames the villages of Allston, Pomaria, Winnsboroa, Blackstock, Society Hill, and the towns of Camden and Cheraw. Surely when such was the fate of these places, the effort is ill-made to show that an exception was to be made in favour of the State capital of South Carolina, the especial and notorious object of the enemy's hate and revenge, and which, for days before the cat
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
; moral gain from office-holding, 436.—Letters to G., 2.37, 91, Stanton, 2.260; from G., 1.345, 2.91.—Portrait in Memorial, 1879. Gorham, Benjamin [1775-1855], 1.74. Goss's Graham House, mobbed, 2.355. Gouverneur, Samuel L., 1.493, 494. Graham, James Lorimer [1797-1876], 1.383. Graham, James Robert George [1792-1861], 1.379. Graham Journal, 2.223. Grant, Moses [1785-862], paper dealer (Grant & Daniell), 1.223; attends G.'s lecture, 212. Grattan, Henry and James, 1.379. GGraham, James Robert George [1792-1861], 1.379. Graham Journal, 2.223. Grant, Moses [1785-862], paper dealer (Grant & Daniell), 1.223; attends G.'s lecture, 212. Grattan, Henry and James, 1.379. Greele, Samuel [1783-1861], type-founder, 1.73, (Greele & Willis), 220. Greeley, Horace [1811-1872], praises Journal of the Times, 1.113.—Portrait in Life. Green, Beriah, Rev. [b. Preston, Conn., Mar. 24, 1795; d. Whitesboro, N. Y., May 4, 1874], professor in Western Reserve College, 1.300; drops Colonization, 299; delegate to Nat. A. S. Convention, 397, presides, 399, defends G., 402, prayer, 413; literary style, 461; burnt in effigy, 461; address to 70 agents, 2.116, to colored people, N.<
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life, V: the call to preach (search)
an of reviewing a book by Lydia Maria Child occurred to Higginson one winter evening. He got home late, and without a fire sat down and wrote until midnight. His satisfaction was great, for it seemed to him that he now saw the way to gratify his longing to do something for the world, and wrote, I feel as if a new world were opening before me and my work were now beginning. Afterward he met Lowell who told him what he was earning by writing:— Soon after the Year's Life was published, Graham wrote to him [Lowell] offering $10 per poem if he would publish there—This was afterwards raised to $20 and then $30—now he thinks he could get $50. This encouraged me considerably. Once, the young critic sent a box of gentians to Mrs. Child and carried a fine bunch up to Mrs. Maria Lowell in the evening. Spent an hour there. James and she are perfectly lovely together—she was never so sweet and angel-like in her maiden state as now when a wife. And again, describing a walk, he write
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 3: the Philadelphia period (search)
series of capitals, even politically. In the very middle of the nineteenth century, James Russell Lowell was compelled to write as follows: Our capital city, unlike London or Paris, is not a great central heart.... Boston, New York, Philadelphia, each has its literature, almost more distinct than those of the different dialects of Germany; and the young Queen of the West has also one of her own, of which some articulate rumor has barely reached us dwellers by the sea. Our contributors, Graham's magazine, Feb., 1845. In this local development of literature, Philadelphia, the first seat of our government, naturally took the lead. The first monthly magazine, the first daily newspaper, the first religious magazine, the first religious weekly, the first penny paper, mathematical journal, juvenile magazine, and illustrated comic paper ever published in the United States had started on their career in Philadelphia; and that city produced, still more memorably, in Benjamin Frankli
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
a counting-room ; then enlisted in the U. S. Army and secured an appointment at West Point, but turned his attention to literature. He was editor of the Southern literary Messenger at Richmond, afterward of Burton's Gentleman's magazine, and of Graham's magazine. He published Tamerlane, and other poems (1827); Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and minor poems (1829) ; Poems (1831) ; the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838) ; The Conchologist's first book (1839) ; tales of the grotesque and Arabesque (2 ek on the Concord and Merrimack rivers (1849). He lived for some time in a hut which he had built himself on the edge of Walden pond, and made the experience famous in Walden, or life in the woods (1854). He wrote for The Dial, Democratic Review, Graham's, Putnam's and the Union magazines, the Atlantic monthly, and the N. Y. Tribune. Some of his published works are Excursions in field and Forest (1863); The Mlaine woods (1864); Cape Cod (1865); Letters to various persons (1865); and A Yankee in
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
idered a humorist of only one character. Hans Breitmann, created by accident to fill a space in Graham's magazine in 1856 and revived for the last time in a prose and verse sketch-book of the Tyrol ipular magazines in existence in 1850 were the Knickerbocker in New York, Godey's Lady's Book and Graham's in Philadelphia, and The Southern literary Messenger in Richmond. The Knickerbocker felt keen its glory Godey's was able to command original contributions from authors of the highest rank. Graham's, which during the editorship of Poe and for a few years thereafter had been the greatest of th a saving influence in the life of the hard-pressed American author. The burst on authorland of Graham's and Godey's liberal prices, Willis said, was like a sunrise without a dawn. Graham's magazineGraham's magazine, See Book II, Chap. XX. established in 1841, was especially liberal in its payments, particularly to Cooper and Hawthorne. It must have been largely of the aid of the magazines that Goodrich was
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