hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana 78 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 22 0 Browse Search
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Your search returned 104 results in 9 document sections:

Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Chapter 25: Potpourri (search)
e papers were all endorsed by Major Lee, Respectfully forwarded approved --and all backed by the Commissary-General of Prisoners, Respectfully returned disapproved. At last, however, Mrs. A. D. Egerton, a noble lady of Baltimore, and my sister,--having managed in some way to get hold of one of these papers, weeks after I had been removed from Johnson's Island and incarcerated in a stone casemate in Fort Lafayette, in New York Harbor,--secured an interview with the Secretary of War, and Mr. Stanton endorsed the paper with his own hand. Let this young officer have any parole he asks, conditioned, at its expiration, to take the oath or go back to prison. The big-brained, terrible man cut right through to my half-formed purpose of going to Maximilian-and he did not propose to leave any such loop-hole in the net in which the Government at the time held me fast. It is a pleasure to record this incident, to the honor of a man who gave few opportunities to the people of the South f
Robert Stiles, Four years under Marse Robert, Index. (search)
69 Smith, William Nathan Harrell, 27 Snakes, 276-77. Snickersville Blues, 70-71. Snowball battles, 157-58. Soldier life, analysis of, 358-68. Somerville Ford, Va., 232 Southern Historical Society Papers, 286 Spotswood Hotel, Richmond, Va., 45 Spotsylvania, Va.: battle of, 144-45, 156, 241, 248-69, 291, 305; Bloody Angle at, 262-64, 287, 305-306, 342; brick kiln at, 260-61; earthworks at, 288-90, 347 Spotsylvania County, Va., Poison Fields in, 229-31. Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 354 Staunton Artillery (Va.), 196-97. Stevens, Thaddeus, 26, 29 Stiles, Benjamin Edward, 78, 124, 136- 37, 282-83. Stiles, Eugene West, 39, 41, 241, 249-50. Stiles, Joseph Clay, 25, 30, 34, 36-40, 111-15, 138-40, 158-59, 161-62, 182, 189, 356 Stiles, Josephine Clifford, 354-57. Stiles, Randolph Railey, 36, 39, 41, 45, 48, 152-54, 182, 296-97, 355 Stiles, Robert: declaration of the intent of his book, 23-24; mother and sisters of, 36, 38,41, 120, 137, 152-54, 200-201, 35
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stanton, Edwin McMasters 1814- (search)
Stanton, Edwin McMasters 1814- Statesman; born in Steubenville, O., Dec. 19, 1814; graduated atn Steubenville. In 1848 he went to Edwin McMasters Stanton. Pittsburg, Pa., where he became a le long and intimate personal association: Stanton, when I first knew him, in 1842, and for year snub. I happened to be at Washington when Stanton was called to the cabinet of President Lincoln. It was a strange event. Stanton was not only a Democrat of so fierce a sort that his democracy do not wonder at President Lincoln selecting Stanton to control, at the time, the most important arm of the government, but I was amazed at Stanton's acceptance. He was wont to pass some time, ash. Lorenzo defied him, and, as Sumner wrote Stanton, stuck to the last. To appreciate the change wrought in the appointment of Mr. Stanton, one has to understand the condition of the government those he believed better informed. When Mr. Stanton told us that he would make Abraham Lincoln
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
rison defends this fort against the combined attack of 2,800 British and Indians under General Proctor and the Indian chief Tecumseh......May 1-8, 1813 Fort Meigs again besieged by about 4,000 British and Indians under the same commanders without success......July 21, 1813 Fort Stephenson held by Maj. George Croghan, with 150 men against 1,300 British and Indians......Aug. 2, 1813 Judge John C. Symms, one of the first settlers of Cincinnati, dies there......Feb. 26, 1814 Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War, 1862-68, born at Steubenville......Dec. 19, 1814 Great financial distress......1815 Columbus made the capital of the State......1816 First steamboat built at Cincinnati......1816 United States bank opened at Cincinnati......Jan. 28, 1817 German community established at Zoar......1817 United States bank opened at Chillicothe......October, 1817 Indians of Ohio cede all their remaining lands in that State, about 4,000,000 acres, to the State...
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 15: generals and staff, army of the Tennessee (search)
of this incident is given in the life of Stanton, Edwin McMasters Stanton, etc., pp. 288, 289. By Frank A. Flower, Akron, Ohalleged that Sherman shook hands with all until he came to Stanton, when he turned away. This, it is said, brought a call for Stanton which was followed by cheers and a recognition he would not otherwise have received. It is further sail that afterSherman was a member was in session at the War Department, Stanton invited Sherman into his private room, where they had an oest evidence that they were ever again on friendly terms. Stanton, it will be remembered, did not long survive the war, and naturally antagonistic, and now that the war was over and Stanton soon to return to civil life, there was no special reason selection. Dana's two remarkable letters from Cairo to Stanton have been published in full in his Recollections, and henchim. There is of course no way of ascertaining what use Stanton made of the information contained in these letters, but he
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 16: Dana returns to Washington (search)
into business, at the earnest solicitation of Stanton he concluded to remain in the service of the ignored and his plans thwarted, and that both Stanton and Halleck had done all they could to preveninth, in northeastern Mississippi. Dana to Stanton, September 14, 1863. This was in Grant's depaentous fact, although a despatch from Dana to Stanton, Crawfish Springs, September 16th, shows thatached Atlanta, and this caused Dana to notify Stanton that Burnside's forces were needed by Rosecraember 19th, at 10.30 A. M., he telegraphed to Stanton: As I write enemy are making diversion of his position, it could not fail to command Stanton's approval. Grant, it will be remembered, wa, or a daily average of slightly over two, to Stanton; and these despatches touched every importantesent with Bragg's army. On the 12th he asks Stanton if it would not be possible for General Hallewn by the sequel. As early as September 30th Stanton telegraphed him: If Hooker's command ge[7 more...]
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 17: campaign of Chattanooga (search)
fair of Wauhatchie, which took place between midnight and four o'clock next morning, Dana to Stanton, October 29th and 30th. at the cost of several hundred men killed, wounded, and prisoners. Tust of Hooker, and resulted, as soon as he got back to headquarters, in a despatch from Dana to Stanton, dated that day, October 29, 1863-1 P. M., which runs as follows: General Grant desires without accident or delay by the night of the 17th. Dana sent two telegrams from Knoxville to Stanton, and three from Chattanooga, while I sent one to Grant, giving a full statement of the situatio, of course, reported his return at once, and the next day received a gratifying reply in which Stanton rejoiced at his safety, assured him of the great anxiety he had felt about him for several day War to Dana's despatches, unless it be one a few days later from Watson, who in the absence of Stanton was acting Secretary of War. After notifying him that the President was sick and the secretary
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 18: Dana in the War Department (search)
: Dana in the War Department Conferences with Lincoln and Stanton plan of campaign in Alabama letters to Wilson extraordinary cap1863-64, that Dana was indebted for his intimate acquaintance with Stanton. Previously their meetings were casual, but now official businesss work, and the success which crowned it, it must be admitted that Stanton was one of the strongest and greatest men of his time, but Dana, nation which would have been most useful in the higher position. Stanton was undoubtedly a true patriot and a great worker as well as a manwithal Dana pursued the noiseless tenor of his way, sure always of Stanton's support, and that the interests of the army and of the country w The cooperation of all was necessary to success, and the work of Stanton and his assistants, it must be admitted, was not less necessary thgiven by Washburne, Jones, and Dana may have exerted upon Lincoln, Stanton, and the Congress in the final determination of the matter can nev
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 19: Grant's overland campaign against Richmond (search)
Chapter 19: Grant's overland campaign against Richmond Army of the Potomac Crosses the Rappahannock battles in the Wilderness Dana at scene of action despatches to Stanton advance to Cold Harbor abortive battles Crosses Chickahominy South of the James counter-movement against Washington The winter and spring of 1864, in Washington, constituted a most interesting period. While the Confederacy had received its death-blows at Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Missionary Ridge, theto that end every resource of the government was placed at the disposal of Grant. The forward movement in Virginia began on May 4th, with an effective force of one hundred and twenty thousand men, and only two days after that the desire of both Stanton and Lincoln for the fullest details of the marches and battles became irresistible. Grant, who was habitually reticent, had no time for details, and hence they sent for Dana, who was found at a reception, but who made haste to present himself,