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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), Surrender of Fort Powell. (search)
iams (Boatswain's Mate) served the twelve-pounder howitzer in the maintop with courage and great judgment. I had not the power of witnessing the conduct of the remaining men of this division, namely, those of the signal corps and carpenter's gang, but from the officers commanding those departments I have learned that one and all deserve the greatest praise. Respectfully submitted, George B. Glidden, Ensign Commanding Master's Division. Lieutenant Commander L. A. Kimberly, Executive Officer Hartford. U. S. flag-ship Hartford, Mobile Bay, Aug. 6, 1864. sir: I submit the following report of the conduct of the officers and men of the powder division during the engagement of the fifth. Acting Ensign Bogart exhibited much coolness and presence of mind. Acting Master's Mate R. P. Herrick deserves especial mention, for until seriously wounded he performed his duties with great coolness and spirit. Acting Ensign W. H. Heginbotham also deserves special mention for his coolness an
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hartford, (search)
ts from Cambridge, Mass., reached the vicinity of the present city in 1635, and in the following year a considerable number of members of the church at Cambridge (then Newtown) settled here under the leadership of the Revs. Thomas Hooker and Samuel Stone. The new settlement was first named Newtown, which was changed to its present name in honor of Stone's birthplace in England in 1637. On Jan. 14, 1639, at a gathering of the people of the towns of Hartford, Windsor, and Wethersfield, in Hartford, the first written American constitution was adopted, from which fact Hartford has been called the birthplace of American democracy. The city was the capital of Connecticut till 1701, when Hartford and New Haven were each constituted capital cities, the executive officers sitting in each city alternately. In The Capitol, Hartford. 1873 it again became the sole capital. In 1900 the city had an assessed property valuation of about $70,000,000 and a population of 79,850. See Connecticut.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
the other side of the bay, having obtained a grant of land from Canonicus, the head sachem of the Narragansets. He names this settlement Providence......1636 A law of the colony prohibits erecting a dwelling-house more than half a mile from the meeting-house......1636 Religious controversy with Mrs. Anne Hutchinson begins......1636 Sir Henry Vane chosen governor of Massachusetts......1636 Rev. Thomas Hooker and friends remove from Newtown (Cambridge) to Connecticut, and found Hartford......June, 1636 John Oldham killed by the Indians near Block Island......July, 1636 Expedition sent, under command of John Endicott, to punish the Indians of Block Island for the murder of John Oldham......1636 Pequod War begins......August, 1636 General Court of Massachusetts agrees to give £ 400 towards a school or college......Oct. 28, 1636 Roger Williams baffles the Pequods by an alliance with the Narraganset Indians, leaving the Pequods single-handed against the English,
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), General Index. (search)
Higginson, Stephen, 35, 36. High buildings, 129. Hill, Dr. G. B., author of Harvard College by an Oxonian, 72. Holmes, John, Ballade by, VI; 35, 183. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 33. Holmes, Rev. Abiel, dismissed from the First Parish, 31, 238; his farm, 41; importance of his pastorate, 337; his ministrations in the Port, 240; founds the Humane Society, 267. Hooker, Rev. Thomas, arrives at New Town, 6; his company not satisfied, 6; they remove to Connecticut, 6, 233; and found Hartford, 6. Horton, Elizabeth, 12. Hospital, Cambridge, opened by Miss E. E. Parsons, 278; incorporated, 278; closed, 278; Isaac Fay's bequest, 278; additional gifts, 278; extent of hospital inclosure, 278; surroundings, 278; buildings, 279; the hospital opened, 279; number cared for, 279; its accommodations, 279; cost of land and buildings, 279; cost of maintenance, 279; property exempt from taxation, 320. Houghton, H. O., tells the story of the first printing-press, 332, 333; 334; founde
The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], A very old young man. (search)
A very old young man. --Colonel Hartford, captain of the Leatherwood Invincible, a company of Henry volunteers, is now sixty-two or sixty-three years of age, but too much of a young man not to have a shot at the Yankees. He boasts that he can outrun any man within ten years of his age to be found in the army, and is perfectly assured in his own mind that he can catch a live Yankee In this we think the veteran captain is mistaken. Thus far they have made better time in that line than he ever made in his youth.-- Danville Register, 4th.
The Daily Dispatch: September 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
lacking of the rebel fire in the latter part of the day. Our well served and numerous batteries, however, did the most towards silencing the enemy's batteries. In the afternoon the rebels were using the ammunition captured at Harper's Perry with more effect than their ammunition used in the morning. The enemy used on this engagement railroad iron, slugs and smooth stones as missiles of destruction. Among the officers who were reported killed yesterday was General Mansfield. Brigadier Generals Hartford and Max Weber were dangerously, and it is fared mortally wounded. Col. George L. Beal, of the Tenth Maine regiment, was wounded in the freshly part of both thighs, and Lieutenant Colonel Jas, Fillebrown, of the same regiment, is dangerously wounded in the breast It is reported that General McClellan sent in a flag of truce asking the enemy to surrender; but he would not do it. General McClellan narrowly escaped injury from the rebel batteries during the height of the en