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site bank that commanded the position, lay Col. D. Stuart's brigade of Gen. Sherman's division. Som regiments there. It was commanded by Col. David Stuart, (of late Chicago divorce-case fame, andn reached the bluffs of Lick Creek, commanding Stuart's position. During the attack on Prentiss, Stuart's brigade was formed along the road, the left resting near the Lick Creek ford, the right, Se off the audacious rebel color-bearers, but Col. Stuart interposed: No, no, they're too brave fellon Hurlbut and W. H. L. Wallace. Before twelve Stuart, too, had come back, and for the time absoluteclosed the line, where Prentiss's division and Stuart's brigade, in their retreat, had left it open.rebels were attacking on our left, lying where Stuart's brigade had lain on Licking Creek in the morith their thin ranks to hold the space between Stuart's and McClernand's, and did check every attempte the lines. When, about three o'clock, Col. Stuart, on my left, sent me word that he was drive[7 more...]
n. C. E. Hovey, commanding--Seventeenth Missouri, Twenty-fifth iowa, Third Missouri, Seventy-sixth Ohio, Thirty-first Iowa, Twelfth Missouri. Third brigade, Brig.-General John M. Thayer, commanding--Fourth Iowa, Thirty-fourth Iowa, Thirtieth Iowa, Twenty-sixth Iowa, Ninth Iowa, infantry. Artillery--First Iowa, Capt. Griffiths; Fourth Ohio, Captain Hoffman, and First Missouri horse artillery. Cavalry--Third Illinois, and company--, Fifteenth Illinois. Second division. Brigadier--General D. Stuart, commanding First brigade--Colonel G. A. Smith, commanding--Eighth Missouri, Sixth Missouri, One Hundred and Thirteenth Illinois, One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois, Thirteenth United States. Second brigade, Colonel T. Kilby Smith, commanding--Fifty-fifth Illinois, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois, Fifty-fourth Ohio, Eighty-third Indiana, Fifty-seventh Ohio, infantry. Artillery--Companies A and B, First Illinois light artillery, and Eighth Ohio battery. Cavalry-
ed after their severe labors, but elated and flushed with the excitement which accompanies victory. Learning that both Stuart and Lee had left the main body of the rebel army near Fredericksburgh, for the purpose of enforcing the draft in FauquierFourth, came upon the flank of one of their squadrons and nearly annihilated it. Col. Drake won high commendation from Gen. Stuart on that occasion. Still advancing on the left with a heavy force of dismounted men in the advance of their line of ca the enemy. Afraid to come beyond the support of their artillery, their progress was slow; and we, who are accustomed to Stuart's and Lee's quick movements, grew impatient, and even thought they had given up all thought of further advance. But pres because we succeeded in entirely frustrating the evident design of our enemy, which was to make a long cavalry raid à la Stuart, penetrate perhaps as far as Gordonsville, and destroy the bridges and railroad between that place and Culpeper. They we
, late in the afternoon, Gen. Grant ordered Gen. Stuart to prepare the infantry of his division to e. General Sherman, with the pioneer corps of Stuart's division and the Eighth Missouri, left at onbe sent at once. Grant immediately ordered Gen. Stuart to proceed with his division. The distancening of the progress of the expedition, and Gen. Stuart was ordered to follow with the rest of the h, a reconnoissance in small boats, made by Gen. Stuart and his brigade commanders, and another madssouri and One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois, Stuart started up at once. During the three succeediwas bringing up Ewing's brigade, and orders to Stuart to follow him with the remainder of the divisithe transportation of the Third brigade, by Gen. Stuart, the last day. Crowded with men, the steamed have been hopeless — if Generals Sherman and Stuart, by their utmost exertions and labor, had forwmple truth is, that the gunboats were saved by Stuart's division. The traditionary jealousy between[5 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), District of Columbia. (search)
of Maryland to cede to Congress 10 miles square in the State for the seat of government of the United States......Dec. 23, 1788 Act of Virginia ceding 10 miles square or less upon the Potomac for the seat of government of the United States......Dec. 3, 1789 Georgetown incorporated......Dec. 25, 1789 Act of Congress locating the district for a seat of government......July 16, 1790, and March 3, 1791 President Washington appoints Thomas Johnson, Daniel Carroll, of Maryland, and David Stuart, of Virginia, commissioners to survey the federal district......Jan. 22, 1791 Nineteen proprietors agree upon terms for sale of lands to the government. Lots for public buildings to be paid for at $125 per acre, streets free; other lots to be the joint property of the owners and the public trustees......March 30, 1791 President Washington proclaims the lines and boundaries of the District. A square comprising 64 square miles in Maryland and 36 in Virginia......March 30, 1791 Fi
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
1861 Five companies of State troops (530 men) reach Washington, D. C., the first troops to arrive there for its defence, on the evening of......April 18, 1861 Camp Curtin established near Harrisburg......April 18, 1861 Governor Curtin calls an extra session of the legislature for......April 30, 1861 In anticipation of invasion, General Lee having crossed the Potomac into Maryland, Governor Curtin calls 50,000 volunteer militia to Harrisburg......Sept. 11, 1862 Confederate General Stuart raids Chambersburg with about 2,000 cavalry......Oct. 12-14, 1862 Confederate advance enters Pennsylvania......June 22, 1863 Carlisle occupied by the advance of the Confederate forces under Ewell; Kingston, 13 miles from Harrisburg, entered on the 27th; and a skirmish takes place within 4 miles of the capital on......June 28, 1863 Confederate advance called back by General Lee to concentrate at Gettysburg......June 28, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg......July 1-3, 1863 National
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Carolina, (search)
n; Andrew Jackson, then a boy of fourteen years, takes part in the engagement......Jan. 17, 1781 Francis Marion, appointed brigadiergeneral by Governor Rutledge in July, 1780, joins General Greene on his return to the State......April, 1781 Battle of Hobkirk's Hill; Americans under General Greene retreat before an attack of the British under Lord Francis Rawdon......April 25, 1781 British evacuate Fort Ninety-six......June 21, 1781 Indecisive battle between General Greene and Colonel Stuart at Eutaw Springs, each claiming a victory......Sept. 8, 1781 Governor Rutledge issues a proclamation offering pardon to the Tories in South Carolina......Sept. 27, 1781 General Assembly convenes at Jacksonboro on the Edisto River, January, elects John Matthews governor, and passes laws for confiscating the estates of Tories......February, 1782 British evacuate Charleston......Dec. 14, 1782 Charleston (hitherto Charlestown) incorporated......1784 South Carolina relinquish
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
ovember, 1792 Puget Sound discovered, named, and explored by George Vancouver......April–July, 1792 Lewis and Clarke United States government exploring expedition descends the Columbia River, reaching its mouth......Nov. 5, 1805 Capt. Meriwether Lewis explores the coast from Columbia River to Shoalwater Bay......Nov. 18, 1805 Astoria, first American settlement on Pacific coast, established by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company......April 12, 1811 Fort Okanagan, built by David Stuart on the Okanagan, a branch of the Columbia......August, 1811 Pierre Dorion and two others massacred by Indians on the Snake River......January, 1814 Fort Walla Walla, on the Columbia River, built by the Hudson Bay Company......1818 Exploring party under James McMillan leaves Astoria, Nov. 18, 1824; ascends the Chehalis River to Black River, thence to Tumwater Lake; thence by an Indian portage it descends the Eld Inlet to Puget Sound......December, 1824 Convention with Russia
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, D. C. (search)
Washington, D. C. Seat of the government of the United States; popularly known as the City of magnificent distances ; co-extensive with the District of Columbia; locally governed by three commissioners acting directly under the authority of Congress; population in 1890, 230,392; in 1900, 278,718. By act of Congress approved July 16, 1790, the seat of the national government was to be located on the Potomac River. The commissioners appointed to locate it were Thomas Johnson, David Stuart, and Daniel Carroll, of Maryland, and they gave the name of Washington to the new city. They chose the lands adjacent to Georgetown, lying between Rock Creek and the eastern branch of the Potomac Washington—scene in Pennsylvania Avenue. along the shores of the river, and made arrangements with owners of the land for them to cede to the United States the whole, containing from 3,000 to 5,000 acres, on the condition that when it should be surveyed and laid off as a city the proprietors shou
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, George (search)
from too great jealousy as from the want of it. We need look, I think, no further for proof of this, than to the constitution of some, if not all, of these States. No man is a warmer advocate for proper restraints and wholesome checks in every department of government than I am; but I have never yet been able to discover the propriety of placing it absolutely out of the power of men to render essential services because a possiblity remains of their doing ill. Nov. 30, 1787. To David Stuart. I have seen no publication yet that ought, in my judgment, to shake the proposed Constitution in the mind of an impartial and candid public. In fine, I have hardly seen one that is not addressed to the passions of the people, and obviously calculated to alarm their fears. Every attempt to amend the Constitution at this time is in my opinion idle and vain. If there are characters, who prefer disunion, or separate confederacies, to the general government, which is offered to them, th
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