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Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee, Index. (search)
Hilton Head, 130. Hoke's brigade, 339. Holmes, General, 101, 133, 135, 160. Hood, General John B., 54, 203; at Gettysburg, 279, 280. Hooker, General, Joseph, notice of, 47, 48; mentioned, 188, 195, 205; succeeds Burnside, 234; mentioned, 240, 242, 243, 244; wounded at Chancellorsville, 254; Order No. 49, 257; mentioned, 262, 263, 264; relieved, 268; sent to the Southwest, 314. Hope, Beresford, A. B., 417. Hope, Lady, Mildred, 417. Hougoumont, Chateau of, 420, 421. Houston, General, Sam, 53. Howard, General Oliver O., mentioned, 229, 272, 284. Huger, General, Benjamin, 101. Humphreys, General, mentioned, 218, 230, 389. Hunt, General Henry J., 290. Hunter, General, David, mentioned, 341, 351, 405. Hunter, R. M. T., mentioned, 12. Imboden, General, at Gettysburg, 300. Invasion of Virginia, 99. Jackson, Andrew, mentioned, 17; toast to, 222. Jackson, General Thomas J., notice of, 47; mentioned, 133, 135, 137, 140, 141, 144, 153, 155, 157, 165,
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, May, 1863. (search)
simple dresses of their mistresses. Many were driving about in their master's carriages, or riding on horses which are often lent to them on Sunday afternoons; all seemed intensely happy and satisfied with themselves. -- told me that old Sam Houston lived for several years amongst the Cherokee Indians, who used to call him the Raven or the Big drunk. He married an Indian squaw when he was with them. Colonel Ives, aid-de-camp to the President, has just arrived from Richmond, and he setraordinary familiarity and kindness. John told me that the General would let him buy his freedom whenever he chose. He is a barber by trade, and was earning much money when he insisted on rejoining his master and going to the wars. I left Houston by train for Navasoto at 10 A. M. A Captain Andrews accompanied me thus far: he was going with a troop of cavalry to impress one-fourth of the negroes on the plantations for the Government works at Galveston, the planters having been backward in
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 14: Fort Gibson, 1834. (search)
arched to Jefferson Barracks, which was then an outpost on the extreme frontier. After a winter spent there the troops were ordered to Fort Gibson, Ark., and on their arrival were welcomed by a body of five hundred or more Indian warriors in the full glory of their native costumes. At their head rode a man, over six feet in height, dressed all in buckskin, and when Horace Bonney inquired who this white warrior was, with all these red men, he was informed that it was the redoubtable Captain Sam Houston. Shortly afterward they were joined by Lieutenant Jefferson Davis . . . The two brothers frequently scouted over the plains in the young officer's company, and often had cause to admire his bravery and discretion. Lieutenant Davis's devotion to the service, and his gallant bearing, impressed itself then upon the men about him, both officers and privates. His habits were as good as his methods, and success waited upon the well-chosen means he used. Both friendly and hostile m
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 23: the Senate in 1845. (search)
he extreme-his appearance was somewhat marred by one eye having been injured in a duel — he was universally beloved by the gentlemen of the Senate; with these were many others of renown. One tall form when seen became a part of sight that of Sam Houston. He was considerably over the ordinary height--six feet four at least. He had a noble figure and handsome face, but he had forgotten Polonius's advice, Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy. He rejoiced in a cata was a certain free, stolid manner that suggested his long residence with the Indians. A favorite story of his was that he met Mr. Davis at a sutler's store in the West, and introduced himself to him. After talking a little while with him, General Houston said, The future United States Senator salutes the future President. My husband remembered something of the kind, but not clearly enough to state it. As will be seen, the Senate was made up of more than ordinarily respectable men, and a
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 31: thirty-first Congress, 1849-50. (search)
Chapter 31: thirty-first Congress, 1849-50. The first session of the Thirty-first Congress opened on Monday, December 3, 1849. In no preceding Senate had been seen more brilliant groups of statesmen from both South and North. Among the distinguished senators then, or soon subsequently to be, famous, were Davis, Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Benton, Corwin, Cass, Fillmore, Johnson, Stephen A. Douglas, Seward, Chase, Houston, Badger, of North Carolina; Butler, of South Carolina; Hamlin, Hunter, and Mason, of Virginia; Berrien, Mangum, and Pierre Soule. It was to this Congress that Mr. Clay presented his famous compromise resolutions, which may be regarded as the beginning of the last period of the long controversy between the sections before the secession of the Southern States from the Union. It was memorable by the threatening prominence given to the Anti-slavery agitation, which was now beginning to overshadow all other Federal issues. The growth of the Anti-slavery movem
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 7: the siege of Charleston to the close of 1863.--operations in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas. (search)
d it from one of the Guards. The writer is indebted for its use to the courtesy of his friend, Henry T. Drowne, of New York. Had Franklin landed a major's command for action, the squad in the fort might have been easily driven away by them, and Houston, only forty miles distant, and flanking Galveston, might have been captured, for General Washburne, with a force equal to Franklin's, was ready at Brashear City to co-operate with the latter. After the failure of Franklin's expedition, and thto the Confederates, excepting at the mouth of the Brazos and on Galveston Island, at each of which they had formidable works; and a greater portion of their troops in Texas, commanded by General Magruder, were concentrated on the coast, between Houston, Galveston, and Indianola. Banks was anxious to follow up his successes by moving on Indianola, on the west side of Matagorda Bay, or upon Matagorda, at the mouth of the Colorado. This would have brought him into collision with a greater porti
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Index. (search)
the Tennessee at Bridgeport, 3.151; at the battle of Lookout Mountain, 3.162, 164; at the battle of Missionaries' Ridge, 3.166; at the battle of Ringgold, 3.170. Hoover's Gap, capture of, 3.122. Hospitals, general and other, 3.604. Houston, Gov., Sam., loyal action of, 1.187, 189; deposed by the Texas Southern Convention, 1.190; recommends obedience to the Southern Confederacy, 1.190. Howard, Gen. O. O., at the battle of Chancellorsville, 3.28; at the battle of Seminary Ridge, 3.61. Tennessee Iron Works, destruction of, 2.232. Tennessee, ram, capture of in Mobile harbor, 3.442. Terry, Gen. A. H., his movement against James's Island, 3.201; his Fort Fisher expedition, 3.485. Te<*>as, secession obstructed in by Gov. Houston, 1.62; respect for the Union in, 1.186; intrigues of the Knights of the Golden Circle in, 1.187; secession convention in, 1.188; surrender by Gen. Twiggs of forts, troops and stores in, 1.267; in the Confederacy, 1.273; sufferings of loyalists
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 59: (search)
bridge. Schooner Silas Henry 3,213 20 1,058 08 2,155 12 do Oct. 15, 1863 Tahoma. Schooner Stonewall 1,200 00 114 35 1,085 65 do Oct. 23, 1863 Tahoma, Wanderer. Schooner Sarah, cargo of 603 99 91 91 515 08 do Oct. 23, 1863 Hatteras. Schooner Sarah and Caroline 4,322 61 1,118 25 3,204 36 New York Sept. 15, 1863 Bienville. Schooner Shark 4,811 44 1,253 22 3,558 22 do Jan. 14, 1863 South Carolina. Schooner Soledad Cos 3,974 63 750 78 3,223 85 do Feb. 17, 1863 South Carolina, Sam Houston. Sloop Sarah $7,382 41 $1,243 75 $6,138 66 New York Jan. 27, 1863 Matthew Vassar, Sea Foam. Steamer Scotia 104,536 60 10,939 98 93,596 62 do Nov. 5, 1863 Restless. Steamer Sunbeam 74,966 74 15,511 59 59,455 15 do Nov. 20, 1863 State of Georgia, Mystic. Schooner Sue 10,062 20 1,716 13 8,346 07 do Nov. 25, 1863 Monticello. Schooner Southern Independence 66,213 94 4,244 46 61,969 48 Boston Dec. 1, 1863 Kanawha. Bark Sally Magee 8,150 00 3,762 98 4,387 02 New York Feb. 29, 1
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., Xii. Texas and her Annexation. (search)
ts opportunity, and resolved to profit by it. Houston and other restless spirits of his sort were pwho, very probably, had already heard it from Houston himself. I learned from him, wrote Mayo, ther learned from one Hunter, a confederate of Houston, that there were then secret agencies in all power betwen the Free and the Slave States. Houston had scarcely reached Nacogdoches, near the eaensued — in fact, was already beginning — and Houston soon succeeded Austin in the command of the imen, who were captured and all put to death. Houston, of course, retreated, hoping to be joined bymen, and several pieces of artillery, whereas Houston had not one. But Fannin, while on his way tolment. Santa Anna's life was barely saved by Houston, who was among the twenty-five wounded, who, ed the sum total of Texan loss in the fight. Houston made a treaty with his prisoner, in obediencesis and assurance of Texan independence. Gen. Houston--who had mean-time returned to the United S[6 more...]<
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., chapter 17 (search)
of Virginia; Pratt, of Maryland; Badger, of North Carolina; Butler and Evans, of South Carolina; Dawson, of Georgia; Fitzpatrick and C. C. Clay, of Alabama; Adams and Brown, of Mississippi; Benjamin and Slidell, of Louisiana; Morton, of Florida; Houston and Rusk, of Texas; Dixon, of Kentucky; Bell and Jones, of Tennessee; Atchison, of Missouri; Sebastian and Johnson, of Arkansas; Gwin and Weller, of California--36. So the Senate decisively voted that the people of the new Territories, forme Clayton's amendment, above mentioned, was disagreed to--22 to 20--and the bill engrossed for its third reading by 29 to 12--and, at a late hour of the night March 3d.--or rather, morning — passed: Yeas 37; Nays Messrs. Bell, of Tennessee, Houston, of Texas, and Walker, of Wisconsin, who had voted against Mr. Chase's amendment above cited, and Mr. James, of Rhode Island, who had not voted on it at all, now voted Nay. Messrs. Bayard, of Delaware, Cass, of Michigan, Thompson, of Kentucky, G
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