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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition 2 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1879 (search)
violations of the inventor's rights, and for a long series of years most vexatious and expensive litigation. But Morse triumphed everywhere, and he received most substantial testimonials of the profound respect which his great discovery and invention had won for him. In 1846 Yale College conferred on him the degree of Ll.D., and in 1848 the Sultan of Turkey gave him the decoration of the Nishan Iftikar. Gold medals for scientific merit were given him by the King of Prussia, the King of Wurtemberg, and the Emperor of Austria. In 1856 he received from the Emperor of the French the cross. of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. In 1857 the King of Denmark gave him the cross of Knight Commander of the first class of the Danebrog. In 1858 the Queen of Spain presented him the cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic; the King of Italy gave him the cross of Ss. Maurice and Lazarus, and from the King of Portugal he received the cross of the Order of the Tower and th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New harmony. (search)
New harmony. The first non-religious community established in America. In 1805 a party of Harmonists, members of a sect founded in Wurtemberg about 1780, emigrated to America and first settled in Butler county, Pa. In 1814 they removed to Indiana; purchased 27,000 acres of land; and named the settlement Harmony. Robert Owen (q. v.) purchased this property in 1824; renamed the settlement New Harmony; and organized a new community which, on Jan. 12, 1826, adopted a constitution under the name of The New harmony community of equality. On July 4, following, Mr. Owen delivered his famous declaration of mental independence against the trinity of man's oppressors—private property, irrational religion, and marriage. Owen failed in his scheme for a social community, and returned to England. The original founders of Harmony, after selling their property in Indiana, returned to Pennsylvania, and established the new community of Economy, near Pittsbu
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ottendorfer, Oswald 1826- (search)
Ottendorfer, Oswald 1826- Journalist; born in Zwittau, Moravia, Feb. 26, 1826; studied in the universities of Prague and Vienna; took part in the Austrian Revolution of 1848; the Schleswig-Holstein war against Denmark; and in the revolutions in Baden and Saxony; came to the United States in 1850; was proprietor of the Staats-Zeitung, New York; and gave large sums of money to educational and charitable institutions. He was an active Democrat, but opposed to Tammany Hall. He died in New York City, Dec. 15, 1900.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rapp, George 1770-1847 (search)
Rapp, George 1770-1847 Reformer; born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1770; was the founder of the Harmonists. He died in Economy, Pa., Aug. 7, 1847. See New harmony; Owen, Robert.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Treaties. (search)
dship, commerce, etc.NaplesOct. 1, 1855 Foreign Power and Object of Treaty.Where Concluded.Date. United Mexican States: Treaty of LimitsMexicoJan. 12, 1828 Treaty of Amity, commerce, navigationMexicoApril 5, 1831 Venezuela: Treaty of Peace, friendship, navigation, commerceCaracasJan. 20, 1836 Convention of Satisfying Aves Island claimsValenciaJan. 14, 1859 Treaty of Amity, commerce, navigation, extraditionCaracasAug. 27, 1860 Convention of Referring claimsCaracasApril 25, 1866 Wurtemberg: Convention of Abolishing droit d'aubaine and taxes on emigrationBerlinApril 10, 1844 Treaty of NaturalizationStuttgartJuly 27, 1868 Zanzibar: Convention of Enlarging treaty with Muscat, 1833ZanzibarJuly 3, 1886 General conventions. Convention with Belgium, Brazil, Dominican Republic, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Salvador, Servia, Spain, Sweden, Swiss Confederation, and Tunis; conventions for the protection of industrial property; sign
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Waldersee, Mary Esther, Countess von (search)
Waldersee, Mary Esther, Countess von Born in New York City, Oct. 3, 1837: daughter of David Lee; spent her early years in Paris with her sister, Josephine, the wife of Baron August von Waechter, ambassador from Wurtemberg to France. There Mary became the wife of Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg-Noer, who had been exiled. The prince died July 2, 1865, soon after his marriage. In 1871 his widow married Albert, Count von Waldersee, who was appointed chief of the general staff of the German army to succeed Count von Moltke in 1888; field-marshal in 1895: and commander of the allied armies in China in 1900. The countess is credited with possessing a powerful influence in the German Court, and with having brought about the marriage of Emperor William II. with the Princess Augusta Victoria.
g of the century it was called a dandy horse ; this was operated by the thrust of the feet on the ground. That of the Baron de Drais, invented at Mannheim, 1817, had but two wheels, and was moved by the thrust of the feet on the ground. Subsequently those driven by a crank movement connected with the wheels and operated by the hands through the medium of cranks or wheels were introduced. Steam-monocycle. The bicycle, patented in England by Johnson, was said to have been invented in Baden. Known in England as a hobby. Subsequently, the bicycle, propelled by treadles operating cranks on the axles of the front wheel, and which created such a furore some six or eight years since, was introduced from France. Propulsion by treadles was applied to a three-wheeled velocipede by McKenzie, as early as 1864; while the French bicycle of Lallemant was patented in this country in 1866. Numerous modifications and improvements followed, forming the subjects of patents, a list of some
that the builder. Ulric Grubenmann, though erecting the bridge directly over this pier, in deference to the timidity of the authorities, apparently using it for a, central support, purposely took care that the bridge should not rest upon it. The bridge was destroyed by the French in 1799. Both Ulric Grubenmann and his brother John displayed great skid and boldness in their bridge constructions. John built a timber-bridge at Kirchenaw, 240 feet in length; and the two, conjointly, one near Baden, 200 feet in length, and another, at Wattenghen, 198 feet long. Wooden bridges. The two leading forms of modern wooden bridges are the lattice, in which the principle of the truss is employed; and the arched, which derives its strength from the actual compression of the wood, the ends, as in other arched structures, resting upon and pressing against abutments. This is the style of bridge which appears to have been principally employed in Europe; while the lattice, or truss, or some c
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 43: return to the Senate.—the barbarism of slavery.—Popular welcomes.—Lincoln's election.—1859-1860. (search)
e black flag. Abstaining from general society, then much broken up by sectional heats, he dined often with the family of C. F. Adams, now serving his first session in Congress. He was frequently at the table of Lord Lyons, 1817-1887. He was in Washington from 1858 to 1865. now British minister, with whom he remained in agreeable intercourse while the latter continued at Washington. He became intimate with Rodolph Schleiden, Mr. Schleiden has for several years lived in Freiburg in Baden, where the writer had the pleasure of meeting him in 1889. minister from the Hanseatic towns from 1853 to 1864, well versed in European affairs, and a shrewd observer of public men and passing events. The two bachelors dined together at least once a week, either at Schleiden's apartment or at a restaurant. Among entertainments given by Mr. Schleiden was a dinner, two days before Mr. Lincoln's inauguration, to the diplomatic corps, when Seward and Sumner had seats together at the table. T
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 5: (search)
uriously entertained than is common in professors' houses in Germany. But Mittermaier, a man just fifty years old, is more a man of the world, notwithstanding his great learning, than any of them. He is President of the Chamber of Deputies in Baden, and therefore a man of a good deal of political consequence in this part of Germany; and his frank and popular manners form rather a striking contrast to those of his caste generally. Besides this, however, he is a laborious and successful profrather large supper-tables, assisted by a single waiting-girl. We knew, too, the old Baron Malchus and his daughter. The old gentleman was Minister of Finance to Jerome Bonaparte when he was King of Westphalia, and afterwards to the King of Wurtemberg; and he used to make us rather long visits, and talk, much at large, of the days of his power and dignity. I have seldom found a person who had such an immense mass of statistical details in his head, and as he has kept up a good deal of inti