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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 15, 1860., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 30. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1864., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 1 Browse Search
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lafitte, Jean 1780-1826 (search)
er to the governor of Louisiana, offering to join the American forces with his followers if he and they were pardoned for their past offences. Governor Claiborne called a council, which decided that the letters sent by Lafitte were forgeries. A little later an expedition was fitted out against Barataria, which took the place completely by surprise. Many of the pirates were captured, and most of their booty and vessels carried to New Orleans. Jean and Pierre Lafitte, however, escaped and collected their scattered followers at Last Island, close to the mouth of Bayou Lafourche. Later, when Gen. Andrew Jackson took command at New Orleans, he issued a proclamation in which he said he did not call upon pirates or robbers to help him; and yet when Jean Lafitte offered his services he accepted the muchneeded help. After the war Lafitte left New Orleans. Jean settled in Galveston, but in 1820 was driven out by the United States authorities, and went to Yucatan, where he died in 1826.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lexington (search)
at by day and suffocating smoke at all times, until ammunition and provisions were exhausted, and on the morning of the 20th he was compelled to surrender. The loss of this post was severely felt, and Fremont, resolving to retrieve it, at once put in motion 20,000 men to drive Price and his followers out of Missouri. The National loss in men was forty killed and 120 wounded; the Confederates lost twenty-five killed and seventy-five wounded. Mulligan and his officers were held prisoners of war; the men were paroled. The spoils were six cannon, two mortars, 3,000 muskets, 750 horses, wagons, teams, etc., and $100,000 worth of commissary stores. A week before the arrival of Mulligan at Lexington, Governor Jackson and his legislature had held a session there, and had deposited $800,000 in gold coin in the bank. They quitted it so precipitately that they left this money and the seal behind, which fell into Battle of Lexington, Mo. Mulligan's hands. These treasures Price recovered.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln, Abraham 1809- (search)
He places it on that ground alone, and you will bear in mind that thus committing himself unreservedly to this decision commits him to the next one just as firmly as to this. He did not commit himself on account of the merit or demerit of the decision, but it is a Thus saith the Lord. The next decision, as much as this, will be a Thus saith the Lord. There is nothing that can divert or turn him away from this decision. It is nothing that I point out to him that his great prototype, General Jackson, (lid not believe in the binding force of decisions. It is nothing to him that Jefferson did not so believe. I have said that I have often heard him approve of Jackson's course in disregarding the decision of the Supreme Court pronouncing a national bank constitutional. He says I did not hear him say so. He denies the accuracy of my recollection. I say he ought to know better than I; but I will make no question about this thing, though it still seems to me that I heard him say it tw
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Livingston, Edward 1764- (search)
until 1801. Jefferson appointed him United States district-attorney for New York in 1801, and the same year he was chosen mayor of the city. Through the misconduct of a clerk, Mr. Livingston became a public defaulter. He went to New Orleans, had great professional success, and paid every dollar he owed the government. Livingston prepared a code of judicial procedure for Louisiana, which gained for him great fame at home and abroad. In the battle of New Orleans he acted as aide to General Jackson. He represented Louisiana in Congress from 1823 to 1829; was United States Senator from 1829 to 1831; Secretary of State from 1831 to 1833; and then minister to France until the close of 1835. He had been chosen a member of the French Academy, and at his death an elegant eulogy upon his life and works was pronounced before that body by Mignot. At the time of his death, in Rhinebeck, N. Y., May 23, 1836, he owned and occupied the mansion and estate of Montgomery place, at Rhinebeck, b
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Logan, John Alexander 1826-1886 (search)
street, who was then marching rapidly to join Jackson—Pope issued the following imperative order toed it. The situation was about as follows: Jackson, with the Confederate army, was behind the Inughfare Gap to Gainesville, to the support of Jackson. Pope was moving his force to the front and extending his left beyond the right flank of Jackson, on and up the pike beyond Groveton. Pope isne on Pageland Lane, to the right and rear of Jackson, his right resting on the old Manassas Gap Raant says that Pope had 33,000 men confronting Jackson. Jackson had 22,000 men. Porter had 10,000 mt the intention was that Porter should attack Jackson on his left, when he was directed to attack t the enemy began to press forward against General Jackson's position. Wilcox's brigades were movedot in a position to attack the right flank of Jackson, because he was at least 3 miles away and notdone that and then turned around and attacked Jackson on the right flank. I admit this would have [10 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Louisiana, (search)
nterprise was undertaken. See Burr, Aaron. When Jackson returned to Mobile, Nov. 11, 1814, after driving thfitte's story, sent copies of the British papers to Jackson, then at Mobile. Then the latter issued a vigorouss of a speedy invasion of Louisiana that appeals to Jackson were repeated, and he left Mobile for New Orleans o In every aspect the situation was most gloomy when Jackson arrived. His advent was hailed with joy. Jackson'sto New Orleans, gave warning of the invasion to General Jackson. General Keane, a gallant Irish officer, the coans. While all this work of invasion was going on, Jackson had been busy at New Orleans preparing to roll it b point opposite New Orleans, crossed over, and gave Jackson such full information of the position of the invadetish from their camp in great confusion. Meanwhile Jackson had pressed forward with his troops in the darknessnd, he led them towards New Orleans. He was met by Jackson with a force behind intrenchments about half-way be
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lyon, Nathaniel 1818- (search)
Lyon, Nathaniel 1818- Military officer; born in Ashford, Conn., July 14, 1818; killed in battle, Aug. 10, 1861; graduated at West Point in 1841. He served in the war in Florida and against Mexico, where he gained honors for gallant conduct; became captain in 1851; and when the Civil War broke out was placed in command of the arsenal at St. Louis, where he Nathaniel Lyon. outwitted and outgeneralled the Confederates. Commissioned brigadier-general of volunteers in May, 1861, the command of the department devolved on him, June 1. He acted with great vigor against the Confederates under the governor (Jackson) of Missouri; he attacked a large force at Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, on Aug. 10, 1861; and was killed in the battle. Lyon was unmarried, and bequeathed nearly all his property (about $30,000) to the government to assist in preserving the Union.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Medals. (search)
indeerGold. Nov. 3, 1814Maj.-Gen. Jacob BrownVictory of Chippewa, etc.Gold. Nov. 3, 1814Maj.-Gen. Peter B. PorterVictory of Chippewa, etc.Gold. Nov. 3, 1814Brig.-Gen. E. W. RipleyVictory of Chippewa, etc.Gold. Nov. 3, 1814Brig.-Gen. James MillerVictory of Chippewa, etc.Gold. Nov. 3, 1814Maj.-Gen. Winfield ScottVictory of Chippewa, etc.Gold. Nov. 3, 1814Maj.-Gen. Edmund P. GainesVictory of ErieGold. Nov. 3, 1814Maj.-Gen. Alexander MacombVictory of PlattsburgGold. Feb. 27, 1815Maj.-Gen. Andrew JacksonVictory of New OrleansGold. Feb. 22, 1816Capt. Charles StewartCapture of the Cyane and LevantGold. Feb. 22, 1816Capt. James BiddleCapture of the PenguinGold. April 4, 1818Maj.-Gen. William H. HarrisonVictory of the ThamesGold. April 4, 1818Gov. Isaac Shelby.Victory of the ThamesGold. Feb. 13, 1835Col. George Groghan (22 years after)Defence of Fort Stevenson, 1813Gold. July 16, 1846Maj.-Gen. Zachary TaylorVictory on Rio GrandeGold. March 2, 1847Maj.-Gen. Zachary TaylorCapture o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mills, Clark 1815-1883 (search)
Mills, Clark 1815-1883 Sculptor; born in Onondaga county, N. Y., Dec. 1, 1815; settled in Charleston, S. C., at an early age, and there discovered a method of taking a cast from a living face. In 1848 he completed the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Washington, D. C.; later he made the colossal equestrian statue of George Washington in the same city; and in 1863 finished his statue of Freedom, which was placed above the dome of the Capitol. He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 12, 1883.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nominating conventions, National (search)
islatures and by mass-meetings throughout the country. The power of King Caucus was broken. It is a fact that William H. Crawford, of Georgia, was nominated in the old style by the caucus and backed by home conventions, but John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, and John Quincy Adams also had home support, and entered the field, leaving Crawford away out of sight in the race. In 1828 local conventions multiplied, and the spirit of the movement manifested itself when (Sept. 16, 1831) thean, and the anti-masons made the first great move. Then the National Republican (Adams's and Clay's) party met as such for the first and last time at Baltimore, Dec. 12, 1831, and Henry Clay was nominated. In the same city, in the spring of 1832, the Democrats held their first national convention, and nominated Jackson and Van Buren. From that campaign date the national political conventions in the United States, which have become such an important factor in our politics. See United States.
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