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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crawford, George Washington 1798- (search)
Crawford, George Washington 1798- Statesman; born in Columbia county, Ga., Dec. 22, 1798; graduated at Princeton in 1820; appointed attorney-general of Georgia in 1827; elected to the State legislature in 1837, and to Congress in 1843. The same year he was elected governor of Georgia, and re-elected in 1845. President Taylor appointed him Secretary of War in 1849.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Watson, Thomas E. 1856- (search)
Watson, Thomas E. 1856- Lawyer; born in Columbia county, Ga., Sept. 5, 1856; admitted to the bar in 1875 and practised in Thomson, Ga.; member of the Georgia legislature in 1882-83; and of Congress (as a Populist) in 1891-93. During the latter period he had a bill passed granting the first appropriation for the free delivery of mail in rural districts. In 1896 he was nominated for Vice-President of the United States by the Populist convention in St. Louis. He is the author of The story of France, and the Life of Thomas Jefferson.
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Missouri Volunteers. (search)
Expedition from Memphis to Moscow November 9-13. A detachment on Grierson's Raid on Mobile & Ohio Railroad December 21, 1864, to January 5, 1865. Verona December 25. Egypt Station December 28, 1864. Regiment at Louisville, Ky., till February, 1865. Moved to Gravelly Springs, Ala., February 5-15, 1865. Wilson's Raid from Chickasaw, Ala., to Macon, Ga., March 22-April 24. Near Montevallo, Ala., March 31. Ebenezer Church near Maplesville April 1. Selma April 2. Columbia, Ga., April 16. Capture of Macon, Ga., April 20. Duty at Macon and in Georgia till June. Mustered out June 20, 1865. (Co. C in demonstration on Haines' Bluff April 29-May 2, 1863. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Jackson July 29. Expedition to Yazoo City September 27-October 1.) Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 52 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 295 Enlisted
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Ohio Volunteers. (search)
klin November 30. Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. West Harpeth River and Franklin December 17. Spring Hill December 18. Richland Creek December 24. Pulaski December 25-26. Moved to Gravelly Springs, Ala., and duty there till March, 1865. Wilson's Raid from Chickasaw, Ala., to Macon, Ga., March 22-April 24. Montevallo March 31. Ebenezer Creek near Mapleville April 1. Selma April 2. Montgomery April 12. Columbia, Ga., April 16. Capture of Macon April 20. Scout duty in Northern Georgia till May 15. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till July. Mustered out July 4, 1865. Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 26 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 197 Enlisted men by disease. Total 229. 8th Ohio Regiment Cavalry Organized from 44th Ohio Infantry January 4, 1864. Regiment organizing at Camp Dennison, Ohio, January to May, 1864. Six Companie
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
in.; laborer; Providence, R. I. 20 Feb 63; died 10 Apl 64 Gen. Hos. Beaufort, S. C. Consumption. Wounded —— 63 ——. $50. Gunn, Benjamin J. 30, mar.; farmer; Columbia Co. N. Y. 5 May 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Gunn, Titus M. 22, sin.; farmer; Columbia Co. N. Y. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Hall, Joseph Lee. 19, sin.; laborer; New BeColumbia Co. N. Y. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Hall, Joseph Lee. 19, sin.; laborer; New Bedford. 14 Feb 63; missing 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Halsey, Ira E. 25, mar.; laborer; Chatham Four Corners, N. Y. 14 Feb 63; missing 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Harder, Peter H. 22, sin.; laborer; Columbia Co. N. Y. 9 Mch 63; 16 Je 65 Charleston S. C; dis. Wounded 30 Nov 64 Honey Hill, S. C. $50. Harrison, Charles H. 19,Columbia Co. N. Y. 9 Mch 63; 16 Je 65 Charleston S. C; dis. Wounded 30 Nov 64 Honey Hill, S. C. $50. Harrison, Charles H. 19, sin.; laborer; New Bedford. 14 Feb. 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Harrison, John H. 21, sin.; laborer; New Bedford. 14 Feb. 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Hasbrook, James Corpl. 18, sin.; laborer; Catskill, N. Y. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. Wounded 18 Jly 63 Ft Wagner. $50. Dead. Henson, Cornelius 22, sin.; laborer; New Bedford. 28 Feb 63; 8
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 206 (search)
ng else of value. We captured twenty-six field guns, thirty-pounder Parrott, and two thousand six hundred prisoners at Selma, five field guns here and some prisoners. My command will march from here early to-morrow. This will be handed to you by Sergeant Bailey, Fourth Michigan cavalry. Please have him rewarded, and return him as soon as you can. Very respectfully, your obedient servant J. H. Wilson, Brevet Major-General. [In Cipher.] headquarters cavalry corps, M. D. M., Columbia, Georgia, April 17, 1865. Major-General E. R. S. Canby, Mobile, Alabama, Commanding Officer at Pensacola: My forces captured this place by a most gallant attack at ten o'clock last night; twenty-five men killed and wounded. Captured about fifteen hundred prisoners, many colors, twenty-four field guns, and one gunboat, carrying six rifled seven-inch. Generals Cobb and Buford escaped in the dark. Major-General Upton and Brigadier-General Winslow deserve the highest commendation for their per
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 12: Georgia. (search)
Negro is a fact-though not the fact of facts — in Georgia. Unlike Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina-States in which the Black element is stronger in number than the White-Georgia has a White majority of votes; yet her majority on the whole is slight, and her Negro population is so massed as to command the ballot-boxes in many counties. For example — in Baldwin County, Early County, and Sumter County there are nearly two Negroes to each White; in Baker County, Camden County, Columbia County, Effingham County, and Troup County there are more than two Negroes to each White; in Liberty County there are nearly three Negroes to each White; in Bullock County and Hurston County there are more than three Negroes to each White; and in Lee County there are four Negroes to every White. If all the Negroes in these counties held together, under the advice of carpet-baggers and with the help of Federal bayonets, they might set up Negro judges, sheriffs, and assessors, as in Louisiana a
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 21: (search)
advance into South Carolina organization of the Confederate forces burning of Columbia battles of Averasboro and Bentonville Conclusi0n. After thoroughly destroying Atlanta, save its mere dwelling-houses, as is stated in his official report, Gen. W. T. Sherman began his march through Georgia on November 15, 1864, and on December 10th drove in the picket lines of the Confederate forces at Savannah under command of LieutenantGen-eral Hardee. During Sherman's advance, his feints at Columbia, Ga., made it uncertain for a time whether he did not intend to enter South Carolina at that point. On November 28th, before the arrival of Sherman at Savannah, Maj.-Gen. John G. Foster, commanding the Federal department of the South, left Hilton Head with all his available troops, amounting to 5,000 infantry, cavalry and artillery, with 500 sailors and marines, and went by boat to Boyd's Neck, on the south side of Broad river. After landing, Brig.-Gen. J. P. Hatch was put in command, wit
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)
ly being hit by a spent ball at Trevilian's. Receiving a Mexican dollar as his share of the money available to pay the troops at Greensboro, he returned to his father's plantation. For five years from the fall of 1866 he was engaged in mercantile pursuits in Louisiana, then returning home, and on December 5, 1871, being united in marriage at Augusta, Ga., to Mary E., adopted daughter of Gen. James Jones, colonel of the Fourteenth South Carolina infantry. In 1874 he made his home in Columbia county, Ga., and farmed and read law, gaining admission to the bar March 24, 1880. On February 8, 1881, he made his home at Columbia, S. C., and began the practice of law, but in 1882 accepted a position in the office of the secretary of State. He has ever since held honorable and responsible positions in the State government, as chief clerk of the office of secretary of State until December, 1894, and since then by election as clerk of the supreme court, his present term expiring in 1900. Mr.
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical (search)
he fearless command of their men, gave earnest of great usefulness to the service had they been spared to complete a career so brilliantly begun. Brigadier-General Henry Lewis Benning Brigadier-General Henry Lewis Benning was born in Columbia county, Ga., April 2, 1814. After thorough preparation in the best schools of his native State, he entered the university of Georgia, at Athens, in August, 1831, where he was graduated in August, 1834, being awarded the first honors in a class noted d with honors in 1846. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and followed his profession, with the exception of the four years of the Confederate war, until his death. In 1849 he was married to Miss Virginia L. Hardwick, of Columbia county, by whom he had three sons, Thomas M., William E., and Hardwick. His fondness for military experience led him to join the Oglethorpe infantry upon its organization, becoming first lieutenant of the company, and at the death of Capt. Andrew
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