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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., chapter 14.55 (search)
d, and examined the Alabama, Augusta, and Stars and Stripes. But, alas! it is like altering a vest into a shirt to convert a trading steamer into a man-of-war. Except that there is a vessel and a steam-engine, all else is inadaptable; but there is no help for it — the exigency of the blockade demands it. [August 23d.] The Tuscarora (new steam sloop-of-war) was launched at Philadelphia yesterday. She was built in fifty-eight days, and thoroughly built too. Her keel was growing in Sussex county, Delaware, seventy days ago. On the 19th of October, 1861, eighty days after the date of the order to General Sherman above quoted, Flag-Officer Du Pont (as officers in command of squadrons were then styled) left New York on board of the steam-frigate Wabash, followed by numerous men-of-war, among which were four small vessels, the Unadilla, Ottawa, Pembina, and Seneca, built in great haste and called ninety-day gun-boats, as the contract had required their completion within that time. Ot
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Stewart, Archibald (search)
Stewart, Archibald Patriot; was a prime mover in the events that hastened the American Revolution; lived in Sussex county, N. Y., prior to the war; and was a member of the Continental Congress from Sussex county in 1775. Stewart, Archibald Patriot; was a prime mover in the events that hastened the American Revolution; lived in Sussex county, N. Y., prior to the war; and was a member of the Continental Congress from Sussex county in 1775.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 4: editorial Experiments.—1826-1828. (search)
e subject of slavery here manifested was soon to be strengthened and confirmed. Two months later there came to Boston a young man, Mar., 1828. not yet forty, who had already devoted thirteen years to preaching the gospel of liberty, and had solemnly dedicated his life to the cause of the slave, and whose great and lasting glory it will be that he was the first American so to do. He was a Quaker, and his name was Benjamin Lundy. A native of New Jersey, where he was born (at Handwich, Sussex County) on the 4th of January, 1789, he went, at the age of nineteen, to reside in Wheeling, Virginia, and there learned the saddler's trade, serving an apprenticeship, and subsequently working for several months as a journeyman. Wheeling was then a great thoroughfare for the wretches who were engaged in transporting slaves from Virginia to the Southern markets, and during his four years residence there Lundy was a constant witness of the horrors and cruelties of the traffic, as the coffles
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1, Chapter 14: first weeks in London.—June and July, 1838.—Age, 27. (search)
He was the successor, but not the immediate or lineal successor, of Sir Theodosius. who is the successor of Sir Theodosius. Sir Charles Vaughan is living quietly, as a bachelor, quite at his ease. I expect to meet him at dinner to-night with Serjeant D'Oyly. Thomas D'Oyly died Jan. 14, 1855, at the age of eighty-two years. He became a Sergeant at Law in 1819. He was attached to the Home Circuit, and was for many years Chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the western division of the County of Sussex. He often invited Sumner to dine at his house, 2 Upper Harley Street, and once to attend with him a play of Terence (Phormio) performed by the boys of the Westminster School, Dec. 12, 1838. Tindal Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, 1776-1846. He was counsel for Queen Caroline, Solicitor-General from 1826 to 1829, and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1829 until his death. is a model of a patient man. He sits like another Job, while the debate at the bar goes on. I may say the same
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Additional Sketches Illustrating the services of officers and Privates and patriotic citizens of South Carolina. (search)
children. One of his sons, E. F. S. Rowley, Jr., was a member of Company F, First South Carolina volunteers in the war with Spain. William T. Russel, M. D., surgeon of the Confederate States army, and now retired from a long and successful practice as a physician at Spartanburg, was born at Lewes, Del., in 1827. He is the son of William Russel, a native of Delaware, and a soldier of the war of 1812. His paternal ancestors, originally English, first settled in Broad-Kiln Hundred, Sussex county, Del., prior to 1700; and his maternal ancestor, Thomas Coleman, born in the north of Ireland, of Scotch parents, married Elizabeth Roe, and settled at Cornwall, Orange county, N. Y., about 1700. Dr. Russel was educated at Newark academy and Delaware college, being graduated at the latter in 1847, after which he began the study of medicine, and received his medical degree from the university of Pennsylvania in 1850. His first practice was at Canandaigua, N. Y., whence he removed to Spartan
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Young raiders. (search)
Young raiders. --Brig-Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, was born in Sussex county New Jersey, on January 14, 1836, and is but 28 years of age. Brig. Gen. George A. Custer is a native of Ohio, and only graduated at West Point in 1861. He is, therefore, a much younger man than Kilpatrick. Ulric Dahlgren was younger than either of the above- mentioned, and hailed from the District of Columbia.