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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ohio, (search)
Columbus laid out......1812 Col. Israel Putnam, one of the pioneers of the State, and a son of Gen. Israel Putnam, dies at Belpre......1812 Solomon Spaulding writes a work of fiction, The manuscript found, at Salem, which afterwards furnishes the basis of the Mormon Bible......1812 General Harrison builds Fort Meigs, Wood county......February, 1813 General Harrison 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 Colu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, (search)
Olympia by act of legislature......1854 Gold discovered near Fort Colville......1855 Treaty with the Nez Perces, Cayuses, Walla Wallas, and Yakimas at Waiilatpu, by commissioners from Governor Stevens......June 11, 1855 Indian war begins; Indians attack eighty-four soldiers under Maj. G. O. Haller, sent from Fort Dalles, Oct. 3, for the Yakima country......Oct. 6, 1855 Three families massacred by Indians in White River Valley......Oct. 28, 1855 Indians under Leschi, Owhi, and Tecumseh, attacking Seattle, dispersed by shells from the sloop-of-war Decatur......Jan. 26, 1856 Indians defeated in an attack on troops at White River......March 8, 1856 Yakimas and Klikitats sweep down upon the Cascades, massacre the family of B. W. Brown, March 26, and besiege the garrison until relieved by troops under Colonel Wright......March 28, 1856 Leschi, arrested November, 1856, is three times tried for murder and condemned, and is finally hanged......Feb. 19, 1858 Col. Geo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van Horne, Thomas B. (search)
Van Horne, Thomas B. Military officer; conspicuous in the War of 1812-15. In August, 1812, Governor Meigs sent Captain Brush with men, cattle, provisions, and a mail for Hull's army. At the Raisin River, Brush sent word to Hull that he had information that a body of Indians under Tecumseh was lying in wait for him near Brownstown, at the mouth of the Huron River, 25 miles below Detroit, and he asked the general to send down a detachment of soldiers as an escort. Hull ordered Major Van Home, of Colonel Findlay's regiment, with 200 men, to join Brush, and escort him and his treasures to headquarters. The major crossed the Detroit from Hull's forces in Canada, Aug. 4. On the morning of the Thomas B. Van Horne. 5th, while the detachment was moving cautiously, Van Horne was told by a Frenchman that several hundred Indians lay in ambush near Brownstown. Accustomed to alarmists, he did not believe the story, and pushed forward his men in two columns, when they were fired upon fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), War of 1812, (search)
t Stephenson......Aug. 2, 1813 British sloop-of-war Pelican captures the brig Argus in the British channel......Aug. 14, 1813 Massacre at Fort Mimms, Ala., by the Creek Indians......Aug. 30, 1813 Brig Enterprise captures British brig Boxer off the coast of Maine.......Sept. 5, 1813 Perry's victory on Lake Erie......Sept. 10, 1813 Detroit, Mich., reoccupied by the United States forces......Sept. 28, 1813 Battle of the Thames, Upper Canada; Harrison defeats Proctor; death of Tecumseh......Oct. 5, 1813 Action at Chrysler's Field, on the northern shore of the St. Lawrence, about 90 miles above Montreal......Nov. 11, 1813 Jackson's campaign against the Creek Indians......November, 1813 Gen. George McClure, commanding a Brigade on the Niagara frontier, burns the village of Newark, Canada, and evacuates Fort George, opposite Fort Niagara (he is severely censured)......Dec. 10, 1813 Fort Niagara captured by the British......Dec. 19, 1813 Buffalo and Black Rock
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wayne, Fort, attack on (search)
Wayne, Fort, attack on Forts Wayne and Harrison, the former at the junction of the St. Joseph's and St. Mary's rivers, where they formed the Maumee, and the latter on the Wabash, were strongholds of the Americans in the Northwest in 1812. General Proctor, in command at Fort Maiden, resolved to reduce them, with the assistance of Tecumseh, whom Brock had commissioned a brigadier-general. Major Muir, with British regulars and Indians, was to proceed up the Maumee Valley to co-operate with other Indians, and Sept. 1 was appointed as the day when they should invest Fort Wayne. The garrison consisted of only seventy men under Capt. James Rhea. The Indians prosecuted raids in other directions to divert attention from Forts Wayne and Harrison and prevent their being reinforced. A scalping-party fell upon the Pigeon-roost settlement Map of Fort Wayne and vicinity. in Scott county, Ind. (Sept. 3), and during the twilight they killed three men, five women, and sixteen children. Sim
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Winnebago Indians, (search)
neighboring Algonquians. Early in the seventeenth century there was a general confederation of the tribes in the Northwest against the Winnebagoes. They were driven to a place where they lost 500 of their number, and afterwards the Illinois reduced them to a very small tribe; but they remained very turbulent. Until the conquest of Canada they were with the French, and after that with the English, until beaten by Wayne, when they became a party to the treaty at Greenville, in 1795. With Tecumseh they gave help to the British in the War of 1812. Afterwards, for many years, until the conclusion of the Black Hawk War, in 1832, there were continual collisions and irritations between the Winnebagoes and white people on the frontiers. They ceded their lands in Wisconsin and became lawless and roving bands. They had reservations (from which they were removed from time to time) on the head-waters of the Mississippi, and, finally, they had begun to plant and show signs of civilization, w
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
. Master's Mate.George W. Blunt.South Atlantic.May 31, 1864.Dismissed.Actg. Master's Mate. Peirce, William B.,-Mass.l N. Y.Sept. 13, 1864.Actg. Ensign.Seneca.North Atlantic.July 25, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Pendleberry, Robert, Sick. Credit, Harvard.R. I.Mass.Mass.Nov. 26, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Circassian; Admiral.Supply Steamer.Oct. 10, 1864.Appointment revoked.Actg. Ensign. Dec. 23, 1863.Actg. Ensign. Pennell, William L.,Me.Mass.Mass.July 22, 1863.Actg. 1st Asst. Engr.Tecumseh; Roanoke.West Gulf; North Atlantic.Sept. 22, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. 1st Asst. Engr. Pennington, Charles C.,--Mass.Aug. 5, 1861.Actg. 2d Asst. Engr.Cambridge.North Atlantic.Dec. 28, 1861.Dismissed.Actg. 2d Asst. Engr. Pennington, Charles W.,Mass.Mass.Mass.Nov. 19, 1862.Actg. 1st Asst. Engr.Colorado; Peoria. Memphis; Franklin.West Gulf. South Atlantic;Mar. 19, 1868.Hon. discharged.Actg. 1st Asst. Engr. European. Perchard, Clement H.,Mass.Mass.Mass.Dec. 5, 1864.Actg. Ensign.Shena
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
the passes, Mississippi River, Mar. 26-April 11, 1862. Boston Evening Journal, April 29, 1862, p. 2, cols. 2-5. —and Tecumseh At Mobile bay; controversy. J. D. Johnston, C. S. N., and J. C. Kinney. United Service Mag., vol. 6, pp. 104, 209. From a Confederate source. J. D. Johnston, of the Tennessee. Army and Navy Journal, vol. 9, p. 42. — – Hartford and Tecumseh at Mobile Bay; controversy. J. D. Johnston, C. S. N., and J. C. Kinney. United Service Mag., vol. 6, pp. 104, 209. ren. N. Y. Nation, vol. 3, p. 494. — – Chas. E. Norton. North American Rev., vol. 104, p. 252. Sherman, Gen. William Tecumseh. Grand strategy of the war; soldiers of various nationalities compared. Century, vol. 35, pp. 582, 962. — Mar discussed. Boston Evening Journal, May 11, 1863, p. 4, col. 1. — Incident of cowardice. Bivouac, vol. 3, p. 92. Tecumseh, U. S. ironclad, and Hartford, U. S. steamer, at Mobile Bay; controversy. J. D. Johnston, C. S. N., and J. C. Ki
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