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Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Political Intrigue — Buena Vista — movement against Vera Cruz-siege and capture of Vera Cruz (search)
tion, and supplies of all kinds from the North. With the fleet there was a little steam propeller dispatch-boat — the first vessel of the kind I had ever seen, and probably the first of its kind ever seen by any one then with the army. At that day ocean steamers were rare, and what there were were side-wheelers. This little vessel, going through the fleet so fast, so noiselessly and with its propeller under water out of view, attracted a great deal of attention. I recollect that Lieutenant Sidney Smith, of the 4th infantry, by whom I happened to be standing on the deck of a vessel when this propeller was passing, exclaimed, Why, the thing looks as if it was propelled by the force of circumstances. Finally on the 7th [6th] of March, 1847, the little army of [between] ten or twelve thousand men, given Scott to invade a country with a population of seven or eight millions, a mountainous country affording the greatest possible natural advantages for defence, was all assembled and r
Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Promotion to first Lieutenant-capture of the City of Mexico-the Army-Mexican soldiers- peace negotiations (search)
motion to first Lieutenant-capture of the City of Mexico-the Army-Mexican soldiers- peace negotiations On entering the city the troops were fired upon by the released convicts, and possibly by deserters and hostile citizens. The streets were deserted, and the place presented the appearance of a city of the dead, except for this firing by unseen persons from house-tops, windows, and around corners. In this firing the lieutenant-colonel of my regiment, Garland, was badly wounded, Lieutenant Sidney Smith, of the 4th infantry, was also wounded mortally. He died a few days after, and by his death I was promoted to the grade of first lieutenant.1 I had gone into the battle of Palo Alto in May, 1846, a second lieutenant, and I entered the city of Mexico sixteen months later with the same rank, after having been in all the engagements possible for any one man and in a regiment that lost more officers during the war than it ever had present at any one engagement. My regiment lost four
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 34: (search)
ster. Steamer Corwin. Lieutenant Commander, T. S. Phelps. Steamer Commodore Barney. Acting-Lieutenant, R. T. Renshaw; Acting-Master, J. R. Grace; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, G. R. Mann; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, Benj. Page; Acting-Assistant Engineers, Strong Conklin and Lemuel Albert; Acting-Master's Mates, J. Aspinwall, Jr., Wm. Betts, John Hill and C. Washburn. Steamer Cohasset. [Commander not found], Acting-Master's Mates, Wm. P. Burke and Jacob Daggett; Acting-Assistant Engineers, Sidney Smith and Chas Robinson. Steamer Ceres. Acting-Volunteer Lieutenant, John Macdearmid; Acting-Master, G. B. Thompson. Steamer A. C. Powell. Acting-Master's Mate, A. P. Matthews; Acting-Engineer Wm. Mahan. Steamer W. G. Putnam. Acting-Master, W. J. Hotchkiss; Acting-Assistant Engineers, James Osborne and John Henry. Steamer Young America. Acting-Master, G. W. Graves; Acting-Assistant Engineers, James Hamilton, C. E. Rainer and W. B. Whitmore. Steamer Zouav
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 40: (search)
and A. C. Stuart. Steamer Wyandotte. Acting-Master, Thomas W. Sheer; Acting-Ensigns, Benj. Wood, Wm. Henry, Andrew McCleary and J. W. Thompson; Acting-Master's Mates, Wm. Chandler; Acting-Assistant Surgeon, James Pennoyer, Acting-Assistant Paymaster, Wm. A. Purse; Engineers: Acting-First-Assistant, J. W. Farrell; Acting-Second-Assistant, Geo. R. Dunkly. Steamer Mt Washington. Acting-Master, H. H. Haynie; Acting-Master's Mate, G. B. Griffin; Engineers: Acting-Second-Assistants, Sidney Smith and Wm. Veitch; Acting-Third-Assistant, Joseph Jamieson. Steamer Commodore Jones. Acting-Master, J. O. Barclay; Acting-Ensign, Geo. W. Adams; Acting-Master's Mates, C. P. Luscomb, E. L. Deane and P. M. Nye; Acting-Assistant Paymaster, E. T. Chapman; Engineers: Acting-Second-Assistant, Timothy McCarthy; Acting-Third -Assistants, J. B. McKenzie, Malcolm Sinclair and I. L. Sawtelle. Steamer Stepping Stones. Acting-Master, D. A. Campbell; Acting-Ensign, E. A. Roderick; Acting-Mast
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 6.34 (search)
eral Mahone broke three lines of battle, and during the night the enemy retreated, leaving his wounded and more than 250 dead on the field. [Later]--The total number of prisoners, according to General Hill's report, is 700. R. E. Lee, General. A discrepancy of statement which I leave to be reconciled by those better equipped for the task than I am, simply remarking that a perusal of the war dispatches of General Grant and General Sheridan often recalls to one that witty saying of Sidney Smith: Nothing is so deceptive as figures, except — facts. On the same day, General Fields, north of the James, captured seven stands of colors and above 400 prisoners, Lee's official dispatch, October 27th, 1864. and when it leaked out in the New York papers, as it gradually did, that this was no mere advance for the purpose of reconnoissance, as stated by Mr. Stanton in his bulletin, but a grand blow for the capture of Petersburg, which had been promptly parried with a loss to the Feder
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Duyckinck, Evert Augustus, 1816-1878 (search)
s continued about a year and a half. He contributed to the early numbers of the New York Review. In 1847, in connection with his brother George, he commenced the Literary world, a periodical which continued (with an interval of a year and five months) until the close of 1853. In 1856 the brothers completed the Cyclopaedia of American Literature, in 2 volumes, a work of great research and value. To this Evert added a supplement in 1865. His other important works are, Wit and wisdom of Sidney Smith; National portrait-gallery of eminent Americans; History of the War for the Union; History of the world from the earliest period to the present time; and Portrait-Gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America (2 volumes). Mr. Duyckinck's latest important literary labor was in the preparation, in connection with William Cullen Bryant (q. v.), of a new and thoroughly annotated edition of Shakespeare's writings. Evert died in New York City, Aug. 13, 1878. His brother, George long,
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
, carriages and that peculiar form of luxury fell into disuse, and eventually into disrepute. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities will enable the student to pursue the matter. See ie duty at once of printing and propelling, adapted for target-practice at short ranges. h, i, Smith and Wesson patents, 1854, 1860. In the first of these the fulminate was contained in a capsule l to 8 2/3 gallons (8.6696); according to the Rabbinical writers, 4 1/2 gallons nearly (4.4286); Smith estimates it at 7 1/2 gallons. Taking the lowest estimate, the brazen (bronze) sea of the templof the screws, with sufficient force to expel the air and gas from and solidify the metal. In Smith's process of compressive casting, the thing to be copied, say a page of type, is placed face upwes out at sea, carrying Indians employed in fishing. b. The incendiary rafts prepared by Sir Sidney Smith for destroying the French flotilla at Bologne, 1804, were called catamarans. The flotilla
Waitt, Ernest Linden, History of the Nineteenth regiment, Massachusetts volunteer infantry , 1861-1865, Index. (search)
.................................. 188, 330, 348 Smith, John (H),................................................. 322, 341 Smith, John,......................................................... 105 Smith, J. I.,.............................................. 288, 329 Smith, Martin,....................................................... 331 Smith, Michael,................................................. 293 Smith, Samuel H.,................................................. 45, 83 Smith, Sidney,....................................................... 348 Smith, Thomas C.,........................................... 353 Smith, Thomas H.,.................................................... 105 Smith, William, 1st,.................................................. 293 Smith, William, 2nd,................................................. 293 Smith, William,......................................286, 292, 330 Smith, William (F),................................................
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 13 (search)
at Quebec, recklessly daring before Burgoyne! But that little peccadillo at West point Think of the Publican, Mr. Immaculate. Why, on this principle, one might claim a statue for Milton's Satan. He was brave, faithful to his party, eloquent, shrewd about many a map with a red line on it ! There's only that trifle of the apple to forgive and forget in these generous and charitable days! No, if he wants an illustration, with due humility, I can give the orator a great deal better one. Sidney Smith had a brother as witty as himself, and a great hater of O'Connell. Bobus Smith (for so they called him) had one day marshalled O'Connell's faults at a dinner-talk, when his opponent flung back a glowing record of the great Irishman's virtues. Smith looked down a moment. Well, such a man,--such a mixture; the only way would be to hang him first, and then erect a statue to him under the gallows. A disputed statue rising out of a sea of angry contempt, half-hearted admiration, and apolog
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1, chapter 21 (search)
r or principle, that two angry parties, each hopeless of success, contemptuously tolerate them as neutrals. Now I am not exaggerating the moment. I can parallel it entirely. It is the same position that England held in the times of Eldon and Fox, when Holcroft and Montgomery, the poet, Horne Tooke and Frost and Hardy, went into dungeons, under laws which Pitt executed and Burke praised,--times when Fox said he despaired of English liberty but for the power of insurrection,--times which Sidney Smith said he remembered, when no man was entitled to an opinion who had not £ 8,000 a year. Why! there is no right — do I exaggerate when I say that there is no single right?-which government is scrupulous and finds itself able to protect, except the pretended right of a man to his slaves! Every other right has fallen now before the necessities of the hour. Understand me, I do not complain of this state of things; but it is momentous. I only ask you, that out of this peril you be sure to
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