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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Champlain, Lake, operations on (search)
McDonough recaptured them. For a while the British were masters of Lake Champlain. This loss stimulated McDonough to greater exertions. By Aug. 6 he had fitted out and armed three sloops and six gunboats. At the close of July a British armament, under Col. J. Murray, attacked defenceless Plattsburg. It was composed of soldiers, sailors, and marines, conveyed in two The Royal savage. this engraving was made from a drawing in water-colors, of the Royal savage, found by the late Benson J. Lossing among the papers of General Schuyler, and gave the first positive information as to the design and appearance of the Uinion flag (q. V.), displayed by the Americans at Cambridge on Jan. 1, 1776. the drawing exhibited, in proper colors, the thirteen stripes, alternate red and white, with the British union (the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew) on a blue field in the dexter corner. sloops-of-war, three gunboats, and forty-seven long-boats. They landed on Saturday afternoon, and con
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Custis, George Washington Parke 1781- (search)
as seized with camp-fever; retired to Eltham, and there died before Washington (who hastened thither immediately after the surrender) could reach his bedside. Washington afterwards adopted his two children—Eleanor Parke and George Washington Parke Custis—as his own. Their early home was at Mount Vernon. George was educated partly at Princeton, and was eighteen years of age at the time of Washington's death, who made him an executor of his will and left him a handsome estate, on which he lived, until his death, Oct. 10, 1857, in literary, artistic, and agricultural pursuits. In his early days Mr. Custis was an eloquent speaker; and in his later years he produced a series of historical pictures, valuable, not as works of art, but for the truthfulness of the costume and equipment of the soldiers delineated in them. His Personal recollections of Washington were arranged and fully annotated by Benson J. Lossing, and published in 1859, with a memoir by his daughter, Mrs. Robert E.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Knights of the Golden circle, (search)
me object —the destruction of the Union and the perpetuation of slavery. The subordinate organizations were called castles. When the secession movement began, these knights became specially active in Texas. When the disloyal peace faction made its appearance in the North, an alliance between the leading members of it and the Knights of the Golden Circle was formed, and the order became very numerous and formidable in some of the free-labor States, especially in the West. The late Benson J. Lossing, in New Orleans, in April, 1861, heard a New York journalist tell a group of Confederates that he belonged to a secret order in that city, 50,000 strong, who would sooner fight for the South than for the North. An army chaplain was told by a Confederate officer, just before the draft riot in New York, You will be surprised at the number of friends we have in your very midst; friends who, when the time comes, will destroy your railroads, your telegraph wires, your government stores and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lincoln, Abraham 1809- (search)
had been made that convinced his friends that he would be assassinated if the whole plan should be carried out, and he was persuaded to go back to Philadelphia that night, and so on to Washington, instead of waiting until the next day. He passed through Baltimore unobserved, and arrived in Washington early on the morning of Feb. 26. The passage through Baltimore. His movements at that time gave currency to many absurd and untruthful stories. Mr. Lincoln gave, orally, to the late Benson J. Lossing, early in December, substantially the following narrative of the affair: I arrived at Philadelphia on the 21st. I agreed to stop overnight, and on the following morning hoist the flag over Independence Hall. In the evening there was a great crowd where I received my friends, at the Continental Hotel. Mr. Judd, a warm personal friend from Chicago, sent for me to come to his room. I went, and found there Mr. Pinkerton, a skilful police detective, also from Chicago, who had been emplo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lossing, Benson John 1813- (search)
Lossing, Benson John 1813- Historian; born in Beekman, Dutchess co., N. Y., Feb. 12, 1813. Self-educated, a watch-maker, editor, and wood-engraver, he devoted his attention to the pictorial side of history, especially to the antiquities of his own region, the Hudson Valley. His chief work was the Pictorial field-book of the Revolution, published in 1850-52. He wrote also Pictorial field-books of the War of 1812 and the Civil War, an illustrated book on the Hudson, histories of the United States, historical biographies, and the Cyclopaedia of American history. His great service was the preservation of the local color in many noted episodes of the early history. He died near Dover Plains, N. Y., June 3, 1891.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), McFingal, (search)
McFingal, The title of a, political and historical satire, in four cantos, written by John Trumbull during the American Revolution. McFingal is a representative of the Tory or loyalist party in that struggle, a burly New England squire, constantly engaged with Honorius, a champion of the Whigs, or rebels, as the British called the patriots. In it all the leading Tories of the day are severely lampooned. It is written in Hudibrastic style, and is the ablest American production of the kind. The first canto was published in 1775; the whole work in 1782. An edition, fully annotated by Benson J. Lossing, was published in 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pillow, Fort (search)
he defenseless men, who begged for quarter. Within the fort like scenes were exhibited. Soldiers and civilians— men, women, and children, white and black—were indiscriminately slaughtered. The massacre continued until night, and was renewed in the morning. Fully 300 were murdered in cold blood. Major Bradford, who was a native of a slave-labor State, was a special object of Forrest's hatred. He regarded him as a traitor to the South. While on his way towards Jackson, Tenn., as a prisoner of war, the day after the Confederates left Fort Pillow, the major was taken from the line of march and deliberately murdered. So testified one of Forrest's cavalry before a congressional committee. Forrest had determined to strike terror in the minds of colored troops and their leaders. This seemed to be his chosen method. Maj. Charles W. Gibson, of Forrest's command. said to the late Benson J. Lossing, Forrest's motto was. War means fight, and fight means kill—we want but few pris
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
vessels in the South Pacific......May 17, 1891 Trans-Mississippi commercial congress (1,200 delgates) opens at Denver, Col.......May 19, 1891 People's party organized at the National Union conference (1,418 delegates from thirty-two States) at Cincinnati, O.......May 19, 1891 President opens to settlement about 1,600,000 acres of the Fort Berthold Indian reservation, South Dakota......May 20, 1891 Charleston reaches Callao without having seen the Itata......May 27, 1891 Benson John Lossing, historian, born 1813, dies at Chestnut Ridge, Dutchess co., N. Y.......June 3, 1891 Itata surrenders to Admirals McCann and Brown in the harbor of Iquique, having on board a cargo of 5,000 rifles......June 4, 1891 Lieut. R. E. Peary and wife (the first lady to join a Polar expedition) sail for the Arctic regions......June 6, 1891 Great Britain agrees to a modus vivendi, a close season and limited privileges in the seal fisheries, until May 1, 1892. Proclaimed by President..
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
appointed annually......Feb. 11, 1891 Gen. William T. Sherman, born 1820, dies at New York......Feb. 14, 1891 Ex-Gov. Lucius Robinson dies at Elmira, aged eighty-one......March 23, 1891 Ground broken for Grant monument in New York......April 27, 1891 Charles Pratt, philanthropist, born 1830, dies at New York......May 4, 1891 School-children of the State choose the rose as State flower by a vote of: Rose, 294,816; golden-rod, 206,402; majority, 88,414......May 8, 1891 Benson John Lossing, historian, born 1813, dies at Chestnut Ridge, Dutchess county......June 3, 1891 Chauncey Vibbard, called the father of the American railway, dies at Macon, Ga.......June 5, 1891 Statue of Henry Ward Beecher unveiled at Brooklyn......June 24, 1891 Four murderers, Slocum, Smiler, Wood, and Jugiro, executed by electricity at Sing Sing......July 7, 1891 George Jones, of New York Times, born 1811, dies at New York City......Aug. 12, 1891 A train on the New York Central runs
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
Pennsylvania.] Penn reaches Upland and calls it Chester......Oct. 29, 1682 Spacious brick residence built at a cost of £ 7,000 for Penn on Pennsbury Manor, opposite Burlington, about 20 miles above Philadelphia......1682 Penn visits New Jersey, New York, and Long Island, and returns to Chester......Dec. 4, 1682 [Penn's famous treaty with the Indians under the elms at Shackamaxon, at the northern limits of Philadelphia, occurs about this time, according to Hildreth, Bancroft, and Lossing; the Narrative and critical history of America gives the date, June 23, 1683. It is the subject of a picture by Benjamin West. The whole story of this treaty has been doubted. Hildreth calls it the famous traditionary treaty. Bancroft says: It is to be regretted that no original record of the meeting has been preserved. ] First Assembly of the province meets at Chester in three days session......Dec. 4, 1682 [This meeting made changes in the frame of government, tending to stren
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