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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 10 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), General Armstrong, the (search)
or of Fayal, one of the islands of the Azores, belonging to Portugal. It was a neutral port, and Reid did not expect to be disturbed there by British vessels. He was mistaken. On the 26th Commodoin the evening, four large and well-armed launches, manned by about forty men each. At that time Reid, suspecting mischief, was warping his vessel under the guns of the castle. The moon was shining vateer was also much damaged, and it being evident that she could not endure a fourth attack, Captain Reid directed her to be scuttled, to prevent her falling into the hands of the British. She was tattacks, the Armstrong lost only two men killed and seven wounded during the ten hours. To Captain Reid and his brave men is justly due the credit of saving New Orleans from capture. Lloyd's squaders. Had they arrived ten days sooner the city must have fallen. The State of New York gave Captain Reid thanks and a sword, and he was greeted with enthusiasm on his return to the United States. T
The Daily Dispatch: January 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Tragedy in Alabama. (search)
Death of Capt. Reid. New York, Jan. 29. --Capt. Samuel C. Reid, the hero of the brig General Armstrong, in the war of 1812, died here yesterday. Death of Capt. Reid. New York, Jan. 29. --Capt. Samuel C. Reid, the hero of the brig General Armstrong, in the war of 1812, died here yesterday.
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from Nassau, N. P. (search)
he Spanish Consul in that city, will, in a day or two, clear a vessel from that port as from the Confederate States. Mr. G. L. Barnard, of Bahalin, Marshall county, Miss., has tendered to the city of Memphis one thousand bushels of meal, provided the city shall furnish sacks and pay-for the hauling. Some fifteen or twenty negroes have been seduced from the service of their masters, along the Potomac river, in King George, by the Lincoln pirates who now infest those waters. Samuel C. Reid, for many years a member of the bar and connected, with the press of New Orleans, is a candidate to represent the second Congressional district in the Confederate Congress from Louisiana. The Synod of Arkansas will meet in Pine Bluff, on the Thursday before the fourth Sabbath of October. Brig. Gen. Jones M. Withers has been ordered to the command of the forces and work defending the city and harbor of Mobile, Ala. The N. C. Delta says that the fortifications at Ship Island