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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 7 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: March 16, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Hampden, action at.
When the British had taken possession of Castine, Me., a land and naval force was sent up the Penobscot River to capture or destroy the corvette John Adams, which had fled up the river to the town of Hampden.
The commander of the John Adams, Capt. C. Morris, was warned of his danger, and he notified Gen. John Blake, commander of the 10th division of Massachusetts militia.
The British force consisted of two sloopsof-war, a tender, a large transport, and nine launches, commanded by Commodore Barrie, and 700 soldiers, led by Lieutenant-Colonel St. John.
The expedition sailed on Sept. 1, 1814, and the next morning General Gosselin took possession of Belfast, on the western shore of Penobscot Bay, at the head of 600 troops.
The expedition landed some troops at Frankfort, which marched up the western side of the river.
The flotilla, with the remainder, sailed on, and arrived near Hampden at five o'clock in the evening, when the troops and about eighty mariner
Morris, Charles 1784-
Naval officer; born in Woodstock, Conn., July 26, 1784; entered the navy in July, 1799, and helped in the destruction of the Philadelphia at Tripoli.
In the encounter between the Constitution and Guerriere he was severely wounded.
In 1814, while he commanded the frigate John Adams, he took her up the Pe 825 he commanded the frigate Brandywine, which conveyed Lafayette back to Europe after his visit to this country.
He was constantly employed in the public
Commodore Morris's monument.
Charles Morris. service, afloat or ashore, and at the time of his death in Washington, Jan. 27, 1856, was chief of the bureau of ordnance and Charles Morris. service, afloat or ashore, and at the time of his death in Washington, Jan. 27, 1856, was chief of the bureau of ordnance and hydrography.
He had the supervision of the Naval Academy at Annapolis for several years.
His remains lie in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, and over them is a neat white marble monument.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 1 : Ancestry.—1764 -1805 . (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 7 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The prisoners. (search)
Notice.
--I will pay a reward of $50 for the recovery, or any information which will lead to the recovery, of my slave Daniel, who was captured from the Yankees on the 2d of July, 1862. and brought to this city on a Government wagon sick.
Said slave is of ginger-bread color, about 5 feet 8 inches high, and 21 years of age.
C. C. Hansford,
At office of Capt. Ch. Morris, A. Q. M.,
jy 15--1t* Corner 10th and Bank sts.
The Daily Dispatch: January 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The capture in Southwestern Virginia . (search)
The capture in Southwestern Virginia.
We have some additional particulars of the successful exploit of Brig. Gen. W. E. Jones in Southwestern Virginia on Saturday, the 3d inst. Gen. Jones, with his command, entered Lee county, and by a strategic movement succeeded in cutting off from Cumberland Gap a regiment of Federals, and by the assistance of a portion of Col. Slemp's regiment, stationed in that county, captured some six hundred of them on Sunday last at Jonesville, the county seat of said county, with three pieces of artillery, and all their horses, mules, and wagons.
About two hundred of the Federals succeeded in eluding the forces of Gen. Jones, and at last accounts were trying to escape by way of Pound Gap, in Wise county.
Gen. Jones's loss was as follows: Killed--Lieut. Samuels, Privates Leonidas Love, Henry Bumgardner, and Charles Morris, of 8th Virginia cavalry, and Wm. Shoemaker, of the 26th Virginia battalion. Twelve were wounded.
Revolt of a penitentiary convict.
--About 10 o'clock yesterday morning one of the prisoners employed in the shoe department of the penitentiary, named Kelley, attempted to murder Charles Morris, a cutter employed there.
Kelley having some difficulty with Morris about his work, picked up a large billet of wood near at hand, and beat him till life was nearly extinct before he was interfered with by some of his fellow-convicts employed in the same room with him.
Revolt of a penitentiary convict.
--About 10 o'clock yesterday morning one of the prisoners employed in the shoe department of the penitentiary, named Kelley, attempted to murder Charles Morris, a cutter employed there.
Kelley having some difficulty with Morris about his work, picked up a large billet of wood near at hand, and beat him till life was nearly extinct before he was interfered with by some of his fellow-convicts employed in the same room with him.