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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908 6 0 Browse Search
Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States. 1 1 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 1: family and boyhood. (search)
te in 1812. He held the position of district judge from 1812 to 1821. Toward the close of the war, when Louisiana was invaded by the British, he was elected to the command of a regiment of volunteers, which he had aided in raising, and to equip which he had from his own means bought a large quantity of arms and ammunition; but, though they joined General Jackson, it was too late to share in the decisive victory of January 8, 1815. In 1814 he married Miss Eliza Sibley, the daughter of Dr. John Sibley, of Natchitoches, a lady of rare personal and intellectual attractions. In 1821 he was elected to the Seventeenth Congress, and in 1823 to the Senate of the United States; in 1825 he was reflected; and in 1831 he was chosen again by a Legislature opposed to him in political opinion. These successive trusts were justified by the fidelity and success with which they were discharged; and his last election was due to the conviction that his continuance in the Senate was necessary to the w
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Company E, 39th Massachusetts Infantry, in the Civil War. (search)
in, where we went into winter quarters. The night of our arrival was a very cold one, so cold that the water which spilled from our canteens would freeze on our clothing. This was a hard march, and many of the boys fell out by the way. Three hundred or four hundred of us were packed away in a small schoolhouse, thick as sardines. The next morning some of the party got over into the town and visited the grocery stores there. That winter we were quartered in large, circular tents, called Sibley tents, which were pitched each on the top of a low stockade, that made the wall of the tent. We never saw this kind of tent after that winter. The next year each soldier was supplied with a strip of canvas five and one-half feet long, which when set up was called a shelter tent. Nothing of importance happened while we were at Poolsville. We spent the time drilling and doing picket duty, and finally, April 15, 1863, broke camp and marched for Washington in a heavy rain. The first night
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Original English inhabitants and early settlers in Somerville. (search)
s descendants are here now. John Green, 1634, had a dwelling house and land at the West End in 1638. which he sold to Richard Wilson, of Boston, and Wilson sold to Francis Grissell, or Griswold. John Green removed, with his family, probably to Malden. John Woolrych, 1635, had a dwelling house and six acres of land at Strawberry Hill. He died prior to 1647, and his widow married William Ayer, who sold the premises to Richard Wilson. Neither Woolrych nor Aver left offspring here. John Sibley, 1635, had a dwelling house and land at Strawberry Hill. A daughter, and probably only child, married twice, but not in Somerville. Thomas Pierce, 1636. His dwelling house was at the West End. Descendants of the name may not be here now, but posterity is here, as descendants of his daughter Mary, who married Peter Tufts. William Bachelder, 1636. He had a dwelling house and four acres of land in the Highfield, near what is now the corner of Broadway and Winthrop Avenue. He may hav
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
Map Company, 8. Sanborn, Robert, 7, 8, 32. Sand Pit Square, 5, 14. Sandwich Islands, 41. Sargent, Aaron, 25, 49, 73, 75, 78. Sargent, Judith, 1. Saturn, Temple of, 81. Savage,———, 79, 80. School Street, 7, 15, 33. Second Corps, 44, 63, 65, 71, 72. Sedgwick. General, 57. Seneca, Md., 18. Seventh Massachusetts. 65. Sewall Dr. Stephen B., 10. Shady Hill Nurseries, 33. Shawmut Street, 29, 39. Shed. Ebenezer, 52. Shorthus, Robert, 29. Shurtleff, Dr., 79. Sibley, John, 28. Sibley Tents. 19. Sixteenth Maine, 21. Sixth Corps, 44. 46, 57. Smith,———. 8. Smith, Baldy. 63. Smith. Mrs. W. French. 8. Somerville Avenue, 11. 13, 15. 16, 33, 40. Somerville Board of Trade, 3. Somerville Fire Department, 14. Somerville Fire Underwriters, 3. Somerville Historical Society, 3, 13, 14, 16, 73, 74, 75. Somerville Historical Society, By-Laws of, 85. Somerville Historical Society. A Brief History of, 75-78. Somerville Historical Societ