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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Poore , Benjamin Perley -1887 (search)
Poore, Benjamin Perley -1887
Journalist; born near Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 2, 1820; learned the printer's trade; was attache of the American legation in Brussels in 1841-48; became a Washington newspaper correspondent in 1854, and continued as such during the remainder of his life.
His publications include Campaign life of Gen. Zachary Taylor; Agricultural history of Essex county, Mass.; The conspiracy trial for the murder of Abraham Lincoln; Federal and State charters; The political register and congressional Directory; Life of Burnside: Perley's reminiscences of sixty years in the National metropolis, etc. He died in Washington, D. C., May 30, 1887.
Pope, John 1822-1892
Military officer; born in Louisville, Ky., March 16, 1822; graduated at West Point in 1842, entering the corps of topographical engineers.
He served under General Taylor in the war against
John Pope. Mexico.
In 1849-50 he conducted explorations in Minnesota, and from 1854 to 1859 he was exploring the Rocky Mountains.
In 1856 he was made captain, and in 1860, in an address at Cincinnati on Fortifications, he boldly denounced the policy of President Buchanan, for which offence he was court-martialled, but the matter was dropped.
Captain Pope was one of the officers who escorted Mr. Lincoln to Washington (February, 1861), and in May was made brigadier-general of volunteers and appointed to a command in Missouri, where he operated successfully until the capture of Island Number10, in 1862.
In March, 1862, he became major-general of volunteers, and in April he took command of a division of Halleck's army.
Late in June he was summoned to Washington to take
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Presidential elections. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Preston , William Ballard 1805 -1862 (search)
Preston, William Ballard 1805-1862
Statesman; born in Smithfield, Va., Nov. 25, 1805; graduated at the University of Virginia; elected to the Virginia House of Delegates, to the State Senate, and to Congress in 1846; and was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Taylor.
He opposed the secession of Virginia, but accepted the action of the State and was elected a member of the Confederate Senate.
He died in Smithfield, Va.., Nov. 16, 1862.
Ramsey, Alexander
; was born near Harrisburg Pa., Sept. 8, 1815; was clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1841, and a member of Congress in 1843-47. President Taylor appointed him first governor of the Territory of Minnesota in 1849, when it contained a civilized population of nearly 5,000 white people and half-breed Indians.
He remained in that office until 1853, and made treaties with the Indians by which cessions of large tracts of land were made to the national government.
He was chosen the first mayor of St. Paul, the capital, in 1855.
He was an active war governor
Alexander Ramsey. in 1860-64; United States Senator in 1864-75; and Secretary of War in 1879-81.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Resaca de la Palma , battle of (search)
Resaca de la Palma, battle of
At 2 A. M. on May 9, 1846, the little army of General Taylor, which had fought the Mexicans the day before at Palo Alto (q. v.), were awakened from their slumbers on the battle-field to resume their march for Fort Brown.
The cautious leader prepared for attack on the way, for the smitten foe had rallied.
He saw no traces of them until towards evening, when, as the Americans emerged from a dense thicket, the Mexicans were discovered strongly posted in battle o t deep and 200 feet wide, the dry bed of a series of pools, skirted with palmetto-trees, and called Resaca de la Palma.
Within that natural trench the Mexicans had planted a battery that swept the road over which the Americans were approaching.
Taylor pressed forward, and, after some severe skirmishing, in which a part of his army was engaged, he ordered Captain May, leader of dragoons, to charge upon the battery.
Rising in his stirrups, May called out to his troops, Remember your regiment!
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sherman , Thomas West 1813 -1879 (search)
Sherman, Thomas West 1813-1879
Military officer; born in Newport, R. I., March 26, 1813; graduated at West Point in 1836; served with General Taylor in the war against Mexico, in command of a battery; and was brevetted major.
He commanded a division in the battle of Bull Run, and led the land forces in the Port Royal expedition, landing at Hilton Head Nov. 7, 1861.
In March, 1862, he was superseded by General Hunter, and joined the army under Halleck at Corinth.
He did excellent service in the region of the lower Mississippi in 1862-63; commanded a division in the siege of Port Hudson; received (March 13, 1865) the brevet of major-general, United States army, for services there and during the war; and was retired with the rank of major-general, Dec. 31, 1870.
He died in Newport, R. I., March 16, 1879.
Sherman, William Tecumseh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith , Edmund Kirby 1824 - (search)
Smith, Edmund Kirby 1824-
Military officer; born in St. Augustine, Fla., May 16, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1845; entered the field under General Taylor, at the beginning of the war with Mexico, and after the war was assistant Professor of Mathematics at West Point (1849-52). He resigned his commission in April, 1861; joined the Confederates, and became a brigadier-general in the > army under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.
Promoted to major-general, he was placed in command of the Department of East Tennessee early in 1862.
Leading the advance in Bragg's invasion of Kentucky, and behaving gallantly, he was made lieutenant-general (October, 1862), and was in the battle at Stone River.
Early in 1863 he was put in command of the Trans-Mississippi Army, which he surrendered to Gen. Edward R. S. Canby (q. v.), May 26, 1865, at Baton Rouge.
In 1864 he defeated General Banks in the Red River campaign.
He was chancellor of the University of Nashville in 1870-75, and then became Pro