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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 36 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hammond, William Alexander 1828- (search)
, 1862, was commissioned surgeongeneral. In August, 1864, he was tried before a court-martial on a charge of official irregularities, and was dismissed from the army. This ban rested on him till 1878, when Congress passed a special bill directing the President to review the proceedings of the court-martial. As a result of this examination, he was honorably restored to his former rank in the army, and then placed on the retired list. Later, he became Professor of the Nervous System and Diseases of the Mind in the New York and Baltimore medical colleges. His professional writings include Military hygiene; Physiological essays; Sleep and its Derangements; Lectures on Venereal diseases; Insanity in its Medico-legal relations; Physics and Physiology of spiritualism; Neurological contributions, etc. He also published the novels Robert Severne; Lal; Dr. Grattan; Mr. Oldmixon; A strong-minded woman; On the Susquehanna; A son of perdition, etc. He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ireland. (search)
America. This left Ireland almost defenceless. Its Parliament offered to organize a national militia, which Lord North refused to accept, and, instead of a militia, organized and controlled by the British government, selfformed bands of volunteers sprang up all over Ireland. North saw his blunder, and had a militia bill enacted. But it was too late; the Irish Parliament preferred the volunteers, supported by the Irish themselves. Meanwhile the eloquent, patriotic, and incorruptible Henry Grattan had become a member of the Irish Parliament, and he was principally the agent that kindled the fire of patriotic zeal in Ireland that was burning so brightly in America. In 1779, though only thirty-three years of age, he led the Irish Parliament in demanding reforms. He moved an amendment to the address to the King that the nation could be saved only by free-trade, and it was adopted by unanimous vote. New taxes were refused. The ordinary supplies usually granted for two years were g
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Revolutionary War, (search)
e same in all places. There was a violent struggle for relief from thralls everywhere. America responded to calls for help from England, as well as calls for help in America had been responded to in England. In December, 1769, South Carolina sent £ 10,500 currency to London for the society for supporting the Bill of Rights, that the liberties of Great Britain and America might alike be protected, wrote members of the South Carolina Assembly. In Ireland, the dispute with America aroused Grattan, and he began his splendid career at about this time. The English toilers in the manufacturing districts longed to enjoy the abundance and freedom which they heard of in America; and 1769 is marked by the establishment, in England, of the system of public meetings to discuss subjects of importance to free-born Englishmen. The press, too, spoke out boldly at that time. Can you conceive, wrote the yet mysterious Junius to the King, that the people of this country will long submit to be gov
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wyoming, (search)
y acquired by the United States from Mexico by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo......Feb. 2, 1848 Fort Laramie transferred to the United States......1849 Fort Bridger sold for $8,000 to the Mormons......1853 Sioux Indian war begins; Lieutenant Grattan and twenty-eight men sent from Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian who had shot a cow of a Mormon emigrant. The Indians refusing to give up the culprit, Grattan fires, and the whole party are killed......summer of 1854 Sir George Gore, of Grattan fires, and the whole party are killed......summer of 1854 Sir George Gore, of Sligo, Ireland, with his private hunting expedition, winters at Fort Laramie, 1854, and with James Bridger as guide travels north to Powder River......1855 Oil is collected from a spring near Poison Spider Creek, and sold along the Mormon trail for axle-grease......1863 Bill introduced in Congress by James M. Ashley, of Ohio, to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Wyoming ......1865 Massacre of United States troops by the Indians in a sortie, under Colonel Fetterman,