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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler 2 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 1 1 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 1 1 Browse Search
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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, Chapter 7: muster-out-rolls — Anthropological statistics. (search)
date unknown. One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Pennsylvania, Company F:--Sergeant Frank Mayne: deserted Aug. 24, 1862; subsequently killed in battle in another regiment, and discovered to be a woman; real name, Frances Day. Second Michigan, Company F:--Franklin Thompson; deserted. (Charge of desertion removed by House Committee on Military Affairs, Washington, Feb. 1887, the soldier having had a good record and had fought well in several battles, but proved to be a woman; real name was Miss Seelye.) Twenty-sixth North Carolina (C. S. A.) Company F:--Mrs. L. M, Blaylock; enlisted March 20, 1861; discharged for being a woman. In the printed rolls of the North Carolina regiments (Confederate) a foot-note, referring to this item, says:--This lady had done a soldier's duty without a suspicion of her sec among her comrades, until her husband, L. M. Blaylock, was discharged, when she claimed the same privilege, and was sent home rejoicing. Fifty-sixth New York, Company F:--John
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Chapter 1: lineage and education. (search)
were very many English among the early settlers in New Hampshire had an effect upon the pronunciation of the language, and especially of the proper names, which was almost as marked as a like pronunciation in Virginia, and, until lately, the pronunciation in England. For example, the proper name Currier was always pronounced as if spelled K-i-a-h, and the highest courts in New Hampshire have judicially determined them to be idem sonans. Goodrich was pronounced as if spelled G-u-t-r-i-d-g-e; Seelye as if spelled C-i-l-l-e-y; and Seabrook as if spelled S-a-y-b-r-o-o-k. These pronunciations show their English tone. They found no imitation in Massachusetts save in Marblehead, a purely English settlement, where Crowninshield was pronounced as if spelled G-r-u-n-s-e-l, and Florence as if spelled F-l-u-r-r-y. The English blood is also seen from the fact that in the earlier times, in the courts of New Hampshire, more form and ceremony was observed, and more outward respect was paid to the
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Advertisement: The Philosophy of Housekeeping (search)
agreeably written. We know of no one of its class that will be so useful to house-keepers The soldiers' friend, New York, says: The volume is printed in good, clear type, on good paper, and presents to the eye, in an attractive form, a great amount of valuable information, hints, and rules, worthy of study by every house-keeper. And we advise all who want an excellent manual, to supply themselves with it, as it is placed within their reach by the publishers. Opinion of the Rev. Samuel Seelye, D. D., of East Hampton, Mass. The style in which it is written is elegant and chaste, showing a high degree of literary culture. The Boston daily traveller says, This is a book that is needed in every family; and it contains a vast amount of useful Information, brought together in small compass, and well arranged. It is the most valuable work upon the subjects treated that we have seen. The Springfield Republican says The Philosophy of house-keeping is a book which sho