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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Banks , Nathaniel Prentiss , 1816 -1894 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barnes , Joseph K. , 1817 -1883 (search)
Barnes, Joseph K., 1817-1883
Medical officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., July 21, 1817; was appointed an assistant surgeon in the army in 1840; assigned to duty in the office of the surgeon-general in 1861; became surgeon-general in 1863; attended Presidents Lincoln and Garfield; brevetted major-general in 1865.
At his suggestion the Army Medical Museum and the Surgeon-General's Library were established.
He died in Washington, D. C., April 5, 1883.
Barton, Clara, 1830-
Philanthropist; born in Oxford, Mass., in 1830; was educated in Clinton, N. Y. Her early life was devoted to teaching.
In 1854 she became a clerk in the Patent Office in Washington, resigning in 1861, and undertaking the
Clara Barton. nursing of sick and wounded soldiers of the army.
In 1864 General Butler made her head nurse of the hospitals in the Army of the James.
Later she was given charge by President Lincoln of the search organized to find missing Union soldiers, and in 1865 went to Andersonville to mark the graves of Northern soldiers who had died there.
When the Franco-Prussian War broke out (1870), she assisted in preparing military hospitals, and also aided the Red Cross Society.
In 1871, after the siege of Strasburg, she superintended, by request of the authorities, the distribution of work to the poor, and in 1872 performed a similar work in Paris.
For her services she was decorated with the Golden Cross of Baden and the Iron Cross of Ger
Bates, Edward, 1793-
Statesman; born in Belmont, Va., Sept. 4, 1793; served in the Virginia militia in 1813; removed to Missouri in 1814; and began practising law in 1816.
He was a prominent anti-slavery man, and during the National Republican Convention of 1860( he received 48 votes on the first ballot for President.
Mr. Lincoln after his election appointed Mr. Bates Attorney-General.
He resigned in 1864, and returned to his home in St. Louis, where he died.
March 25, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Beauregard , Pierre Gustave toutant , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bemis's Heights , battles of. (search)
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bernard , Sir Francis , 1714 -1779 (search)
Bernard, Sir Francis, 1714-1779
Colonial governor; born in Nettleham, Lincoln co., England, in 1714: was educated at Oxford, where he was graduated in 1736.
The law was his chosen profession.
In 1758 he was appointed governor of New Jersey; and in 1760 he was transferred to the chief magistracy of Massachusetts, where he was a most obedient servant of the crown and ministry in the support of measures obnoxious to the colonists.
After a stormy administration of nearly nine years Bernard was recalled, when he was created a baronet, chiefly because of his recommendation to transfer the right of selecting the governor's council from the colonial legislature to the crown.
Bernard was a friend of learning, and gave a part of his library to Harvard College.
He had become so thoroughly unpopular that when he left Boston the bells were rung, cannon were fired, and Liberty-tree was hung with flags, in token of the joy of the people.
He died in Aylesbury, England, June 16, 1779.