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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8 1863 Mountains and the Mississippi River . (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 47 South Atlantic Blockading Squadron , under Rear-admiral Dahlgren 1863 1864
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 52 Charleston , 1865 Charleston , Savannah , etc. (search)
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 II., Xxii. Negro soldiery. (search)
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 II., Xxx. Political Mutations and results.—the Presidential canvass of 1864
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 II., chapter 31 (search)
Brant, Joseph,
(Thay-en-da-ne-gen). Mohawk chief; born on the banks of the Ohio River in 1742.
In 1761 Sir William Johnson sent him to Dr. Wheelock's school at Hanover.
N. H., where he translated portions of the New Testament into the Mohawk language.
Brant engaged in the war against Pontiae in 1763, and at
Joseph Brant. the beginning of the war for independence was secretary to Guy Johnson, the Indian Superintendent.
In the spring of 1776 he was in England; and to the ministry he expressed his willingness, and that of his people, to join in the chastisement of the rebellious colonists.
It was an unfavorable time for him to make such an
The Brant mausoleum. offer with an expectation of securing very favorable arrangements for his people, for the minstry were elated with the news of the disasters to the rebels at Quebee.
Besides, they had completed the bargain for a host of German mercenaries, a part of whom were then on their way to America to crush the rebellion.
They
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Croghan , George 1746 -1782 (search)
Croghan, George 1746-1782
Indian agent; born in Ireland; was educated in Dublin; emigrated to Pennsylvania; and in 1746 was engaged in trade with the Indians.
Acquiring their language and friendship, Pennsylvania made him Indian agent.
Captain in Braddock's expedition in 1755, he showed such excellence in military matters that in 1756 he was intrusted with the defence of the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and was made by Sir William Johnson his deputy, who, in 1763, sent him to England to confer with the ministry about an Indian boundary-line.
On that voyage he was wrecked on the coast of France.
In May, 1776, Croghan founded a settlement 4 miles above Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg). He was active in securing the attachment of the Indians to the British interest until 1776, but took no active part in the events of the Revolution.
He died in Passayunk, Pa., in August, 1782.
Military officer; born near Louisville, Ky., Nov. 15, 1791; educated at the College of William a