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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1861, May (search)
May 7. A serious riot occurred at Knoxville, Tenn., caused by hoisting a Union flag and the delivery of inflammatory speeches. About twenty shots were fired in all. A man named Douglas, a ringleader in the fight, was wounded, having received several shots. An outsider, named Bull, was mortally wounded.--National Intelligencer, May 11. Judge Ogden of the County Court of Oyer and Terminer. of Hudson County, N. J., delivered a charge to the Grand Jury, in which he defined the crime of treason as giving aid, comfort, and information to the enemy. The Massachusetts First Regiment, which has been for several days at Boston waiting marching orders, on learning that the War Department would hereafter accept no troops for a less period than three years, unanimously offered their services to the Governor for the full term. The New Jersey House of Assembly ordered to a third reading the bill to raise a war loan of $1,000,000. Resolutions of thanks to Governor Olden for his ac
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Election bill, federal. (search)
ally to meet the notorious frauds in the city of New York, and the new bill aims quite as much to cure frauds in the great cities of the North as in any part of the country. It is, indeed, the knowledge of this fact which sharpens the anguish of the Northern Democrats at what they pathetically call an invasion of State rights. It is not the peril of State rights which afflicts them, but the thought of an abridgment of those liberties with the ballot-box of which the performances in Hudson county, N. J., have afforded the most recent illustration. The South shouts loudest, but it is merely because the ruling statesmen there think they have most to lose by fair elections. What chiefly troubles the opponents of the bill North and South is, not that it is sectional, but that it will check, if not stop, cheating at the polls everywhere. Another objection of a sordid kind brought forward against the bill is that it will cost money. If this or any other measure will tend to keep the
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Portsmouth. (search)
ces on board the steamer Fanny, on the 1st inst., and at Chickonocomac on the 4th and 5th: Lieut. F. M. Peacock, U. S. Navy, Commanding Steamer Fanny. Lieut. Isaac W. Hart, Regimental Quarter master, 20th Indiana Regiment. Corporal J. E. Tuttle, Co. C, 9th Regiment N. Y. Vols., Hudson co., N. Y. Corporal G. Everard, Co. G, 9th Regiment N. Y. Vols., New York City. Privates 9th Regiment N. Y. Volunteers.--J. S. Rowan, Co. C, J. R. Havens, Co. C, W. H. Edsall, Co. G, Hudson county, N. J.; W. H. Cunningham, Co. C, Richmond, N. Y.; D. Dougherty, Co. C, Jos. V. H. Page, Essex co., N. J; John Carson, Jas. Beith, Co. I, Frank Trottes, Co. H, New York city. Twentieth Indiana Regiment.--Sergeant F. M. Bartlett, Co. I, Porter County, New York; Corporal C. W. Keefer, Co. K, Monticello, Indiana. Privates.--John Helson, Co. C, Marshall co., Ind.; J. W. Sparks, Co. I, Indianapolis, Ind.; John H. Andrews, Co. H, Rossville, Ill.; Robt. Inglis, Co. C, Marshall co., Ind.; F