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ia, where the people had already heard of our approach. On reaching the place, we were allowed to seat ourselves on a Captain Smith's porch, until a court could be convened for our trial. The jury was composed almost entirely of old men, and whilefrom the disgusting bonds. This change of our fortune was as sudden as it was unexpected. We enjoyed supper with Captain Smith, having finished which, we found the deputy sheriff ready, with a team of splendid horses, to convey us to his own reriff was a Western Virginia man, and that his sympathies were with the United States government. He informed us that Captain Smith was under bonds for ten thousand dollars for his good behavior. From the Captain we got the story of the men who folrom spirits, and we were thereby saved from capture, at least at that time. After hinting to us the sentiments of Captain Smith and himself, the sheriff invited us to his house. It was constructed of rough pine logs, but scrupulously clean and
to a candidate of their own caste. General Prentiss was kind and affable to all around him, and among fifteen hundred men of his command with whom I freely conversed, there was not one who did not love and respect him. Every day found me growing more and more hostile to the slave system; and the actions of the various States against slavery often recurred to my mind, and always produced a pleasurable feeling. Pennsylvania took the lead in this noble race. The Act is to be found in Smith's Laws, Vol. I., p. 493, 1780. It was for the gradual abolishment of slavery, and every word of it should have been printed in letters of gold. This just Act was, for a long course of years, adhered to and perfected until slavery ceased in the State. In the year 1827, the following open avowal of the State doctrine was made preface to the Act: To prevent certain abuses of the laws relative to fugitives from labor. They ought not to be tolerated in the State of Pennsylvania.
Ernest Crosby, Garrison the non-resistant, Chapter 11: the results of the war in the South (search)
orning and took my seat at a table occupied by two drummers, who were conversing with each other. Tol'able lively night, remarked one of them, whom I shall call Smith. Yes, said I. Who on earth was that man, and what ever became of him? It's Pete Bunker, replied the man. Don't you know Pete? Why, the Bunkers are one of tther. Did they try him for it? I asked. Naw, was the reply, and the two men looked at me in wonder. I reckon he left his gun in his room last night, said Smith. It was pretty lucky. But there hain't been any shootina in town lately. When was the last shootina, Dave? A year ago Christmas, answered Dave. That Jake Haownstairs. That was Christmas Eve, and they buried all four of 'em together. Ther hain't been any shootina in town since then. Yes, Jake was a mean cuss, said Smith, but I liked him first rate. And we finished our buckwheat cakes in silence. If Garrison were alive and could visit the South to-day and read Up from slavery,
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 5: return to Strasburg (continued)—Banks's flight to WinchesterBattle of Winchester. (search)
of the 18th Ewell returned to direct the course of his troops.3 It was then from New Market that Jackson's campaign against Banks commenced; from this point that a united Major-General Ewell was left with his division and a regiment of cavalry in observation on the upper Rappahannock. General Jackson, left in the valley to oppose greatly superior forces, was authorized to call Ewell's division to his assistance if necessary, and Ewell was directed to comply with such a call. Major-General Smith was to have a mixed force, equal to a brigade, in front of Fredericksburg. See Narative of Military Operations directed during the late War between the States, by Joseph E. Johnston, General C. S. A. (1874), p. 110. Soon after General Jackson's return from MacDowell, a letter then written by him was delivered to me after the army had reached the neighborhood of the Chickahominy, in which he described the position of the Federal army near Strasburg and asked instructions. These we
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain, Chapter 9: battle of Cedar Mountain (continued). (search)
, Corporal Fay, and Corporal Wilcox, of Company D; Ide and Sparrow, of Company E; Sergeant Andrews, Hatch, Howard, and Hoxsey, of Company G; Corporal Cahill, Corporal DeWeale, and Duffy, of Company H; Sergeant Willis, of Company I; and Conlan, Daly, Livingstone, Montague, Roberts, and Watson, of Company K,--were killed. Corporal Buxton, Gilman, and Spalding, of Company A; Stephens (J.), of Company B; Donovan, of Company C; Daniels, of Company E; Moore, of Company F; Dillingham, Greene (M.), Smith, and First Sergeant Williston, of Company G; Sylvester, of Company I; and Hauboldt, of Company K,were mortally wounded. Ninety-nine others were wounded ; and fourteen men, besides four of the wounded, were prisoners. Of the twenty-three officers who went on the field, seven only came back unhurt, and thirty-five per cent of the regiment as engaged were killed or wounded. See Record of the Second Massachusetts infantry, by A. H. Quint, pp.110, 111. Surrounded by many of their men killed i
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Authorities. (search)
1, 213, 215, 216 Proposed operations 28 II, 113, 115; 53, 97 Shelby, Joseph O.: Shelby's Raid 22 i, 679 Sherman, William T.: Arkansas Post, Ark. 17 i, 760-762 Bentonville, N. C. 47 II, 905 Vicksburg, Miss. 17 i, 611 Sigel, Franz: Northern Virginia Campaign 12 i, 177-179 Slaughter, John N.: Chickamauga, Ga. 30 II, 353 Slocum, Henry W.: Chancellorsville, Va. 25 i, 673 Gettysburg, Pa. 27 i, 760 Savannah, Ga 44, 720 Smith, Andrew J.: Bayou Rapides Road, La. 34 II, 725 Pleasant Hill, La. 34 i, 308 Snyder, G. W.: Charleston Harbor, S. C. 1, 213, 215, 216 Starkweather, John C.; Chickamauga, Ga 30 i, 303-307 Steele, Frederick: Little Rock, Ark., defenses 22 i, 478 Stevens, Walter H.: Fredericksburg, Va. 21, 1129 Stout, S. H.: Hospitals 30 IV, 737 Strahl, Otho F.: Chickamauga, Ga. 30 II, 131 Stuart, James E. B.: Brandy Station, Va. 27 II, 6
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War, Authorities. (search)
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 11-21, 1864 70, 3 Savannah, Ga., to Goldsborough, N. C. 80, 1-9 Smith, Charles F.: Paducah, Ky., and vicinity, Nov., 1861 6, 2 Smith, E. Kirby: Red River Smith, E. Kirby: Red River Campaign, March 10-May 22, 1864 53, 1 Smith, Giles A.: Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 90, 5; 131, 3 Smith, William F.: Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 1863 97, 1 Missionary Smith, Giles A.: Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 90, 5; 131, 3 Smith, William F.: Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 1863 97, 1 Missionary Ridge, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1863 49, 1 Tennessee River, reopening of, Oct. 26-29, 1863 50, 1 Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4, 1862 15, 2 Smith, William P.: Mine Run (Va.) Campaign 45,Smith, William F.: Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 20-Dec. 31, 1863 97, 1 Missionary Ridge, Tenn., Nov. 25, 1863 49, 1 Tennessee River, reopening of, Oct. 26-29, 1863 50, 1 Yorktown, Va., April 5-May 4, 1862 15, 2 Smith, William P.: Mine Run (Va.) Campaign 45, 1 Snow, Alonzo: New Bridge, Va., Jun. 5, 1862 21, 6 Soederquist, Oscar: Suffolk, Va., and vicinity, April 31-May 4, 1863 26, 4 Spangenberg, C. L.: Corinth, Miss., April 29-JuSmith, William P.: Mine Run (Va.) Campaign 45, 1 Snow, Alonzo: New Bridge, Va., Jun. 5, 1862 21, 6 Soederquist, Oscar: Suffolk, Va., and vicinity, April 31-May 4, 1863 26, 4 Spangenberg, C. L.: Corinth, Miss., April 29-June 10, 1862 13, 6 Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 20-July 4, 1863 36, 2 Stanley, David S.: Franklin, Tenn., April 4, 1863 28, 5 Steele, S. W.: Stone's River Campaign, Dec. 26, 1862-Jan
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Notes (search)
Notes Note 1, page 11. The celebrated Captain Smith, after resigning the government of the Colony in Virginia, in his capacity of Admiral of New England, made a careful survey of the coast from Penobscot to Cape Cod, in the summer of 1614. Note 2, page 12. Captain Smith gave to the promontory, now called Cape Ann, the name of Tragabizanda, in memory of his young and beautiful mistress of that name, who, while he was a captive at Constantinople, like Desdemona, loved him for the dangersCaptain Smith gave to the promontory, now called Cape Ann, the name of Tragabizanda, in memory of his young and beautiful mistress of that name, who, while he was a captive at Constantinople, like Desdemona, loved him for the dangers he had passed. Note 3, page 142. The African Chief was the title of a poem by Mrs. Sarah Wentworth Morton, wife of the Hon. Perez Morton, a former attorney-general of Massachusetts. Mrs. Morton's nom de plume was Philenia. The school book in which The African Chief was printed was Caleb Bingham's The American Preceptor, and the poem contained fifteen– stanzas, of which the first four were as follows:-- “See how the black ship cleaves the main High-bounding o'er the violet wave, Remurmurin
The Boston Massacre. The Boston Gazette and Country Journal of March 12, 1770, in a list of those killed and wounded upon March 5th, mentions a lad named John Clark about 17 years of age, whose parents live at Medford, and an apprentice to Capt. Samuel Howard of this town; wounded, a ball entered just about his groin and came out at his hip, on the opposite side, apprehended he will die. By the records in the City Clerk's office, this John Clark appears to have been the son of John and Mary (Smith) Clark, born in Medford, June 10, 1752, and baptized by the Rev. Ebenezer Turell on June 14th of the same year. He died in Medford on the 26th of May, 1778. L. L. D.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 2., Dedication of memorial tablet to Sarah (Bradlee) Fulton. (search)
d, which took the name of Sarah Bradlee Fulton. From its organization, the Chapter hoped to erect a tablet to her memory. On May twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred, this desire was granted and the dedication took place. With the hum of electric cars on one side and the puffing of locomotives on the other, how different the company gathered on that spring afternoon from the one that stood before that tomb in the village quiet of 1835! Two persons were present on both occasions, Mrs. Susan (Smith) Wait and her son Francis A. Wait, the former the widow of Nathan W. Wait, grandson of Mrs. Fulton. The State Regent of Massachusetts, and the regents of twenty chapters, Daughters of the American Revolution, came to honor the patriot woman. Descendants of Mrs. Fulton, representing the fourth, fifth, and sixth generations, were present. Only one of the third generation was living, Mr. John A. Fulton, of Cambridge, whom infirmity prevented from being present. Residents of Medford, a
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