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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Engineering. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Habeas corpus, (search)
Helena, battle at.
There was a sharp struggle between the National and Confederate troops at Helena, Ark., on the west side of the Mississippi, on July 4, 1863. Gen. B. M. Prentiss was in command there.
The Confederates in that region were under the command of General Holmes, assisted by Generals Price, Marmaduke, Fagan, Parsons, McRae, and Walker, and were the remnants of shattered armies, about 8,000 strong in effective men. The post at Helena was strongly fortified.
It had a garrison of 3,000 men, supported by the gunboat Tyler.
Holmes was ignorant of the real strength of Prentiss, and made a bold attack upon the works.
At three o'clock in the afternoon the Confederates were repulsed at all points, and withdrew with a loss, reported by Holmes, of 20 per cent. of the entire force, or 1,636 men. Prentiss lost 250 men. The Confederate loss must have been much greater than Holmes reported, for Prentiss buried 300 of their dead left behind, and captured 1,100 men.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huntington , Ebenezer 1754 -1834 (search)
Huntington, Ebenezer 1754-1834
Military officer; born in Norwich, Conn., Dec. 26, 1754; graduated at Yale College in 1775, and joined the patriot army as lieutenant in Wyllys's regiment.
He served under Heath, Parsons, and Watts, and commanded the regiment of the latter in Rhode Island in 1778 as lieutenantcolonel.
At Yorktown he commanded a battalion of infantry, and served on General Lincoln's staff until the end of the war, when he was made a general of the Connecticut militia.
Huntington was named by Washington for brigadier-general in 1798.
In 1810-11 and 1817-19 he was a member of Congress.
He died in Norwich, June 17, 1834.
King, Rufus 1755-1827
Statesman; born in Scarboro, Me., March 14, 1755; graduated at Harvard in 1777; studied law with Theophilus Parsons, in Newburyport, and in 1778 became aide-de-camp on General Glover's staff, in the expedition against the British on Rhode Island.
In 1785 he was an earnest advocate of the absolute freedom of the slaves, to be secured by the operation of an act of Congress, making such freedom a fundamental principle of the Constitution.
Mr. King and General Schuyler were chosen the first representatives of New York in the national Senate of 1789, under the new Constitution.
Mr. King was a leading Federalist.
From 1798 to 1804 he was American minister to Great Britain; and in 1818 he was sent to the United States Senate for the third time.
He was an able leader of the opposition to the admission of Missouri under the terms of the compromise as a slave-labor State.
In 1825 he accepted the appointment of minister to England, but returned in feeble health th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Parsons , Theophilus 1750 -1813 (search)
Parsons, Theophilus 1750-1813
Jurist; born in Byfield, Mass., Feb. 24, 1750; graduated at Harvard College in 1769; admitted to the bar in 1774; and was at the head of a grammar-school in Falmouth (now Portland), Me., when it was destroyed.
He began practice in Newburyport in 1777, and in 1780 was one of the principal framers of the State constitution of Massachusetts.
He removed to Boston in 1800, where, until his death, he was regarded as the brightest of the legal lights of New England.
He had been a zealous advocate of the national Constitution in 1788, and in 1806 was made chiefjustice of Massachusetts.
His decisions are embraced in six volumes.
His memory was wonderful, and he was eloquent as a speaker.
His Opinions were published in New York in 1836, under the title of Commentaries on American law.
He died in Boston, Oct. 30. 1813.
Lawyer; born in Newburyport, Mass., May 17, 1797; graduated at Harvard College in 1815; studied law; was Professor of Law in Harva
Parsons' case, the
A short crop of tobacco in Virginia having enhanced the value of that staple, and the issuing of bills of credit (1755) for the first time in that province having depreciated the currency, the Assembly passed a temporary act authorizing the payment of all tobacco debts in the depreciated currency, at a stipulated price.
Three years later (1758) an expected short crop caused the re-enactment of this tender-law.
The salaries of the parish ministers, sixty-five in number, were payable in tobacco, and they were likely to become losers by this tender-law.
The clergy sent an agent to England, who obtained an Order in Council pronouncing the law void.
Suits were brought to recover the difference between twopence per pound in depreciated currency and the tobacco, to which, by law, the ministers were entitled.
In defending one of these suits the rare eloquence of Patrick Henry was first developed.