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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 2. (search)
arly that he had made a voyage on a flatboat from Indiana to New Orleans, and that he was strong, active, honest, and generally, as would be expressed. in Western phrase, a smart young fellow. He was therefore just the sort of man Offutt needed for one of his trading enterprises, and Mr. Lincoln himself relates somewhat in detail how Offutt engaged him and the beginning of the venture: Abraham, together with his stepmother's son, John D. Johnston, and John Hanks, yet residing in Macon County, hired themselves to Denton Offutt to take a flatboat from Beardstown, Illinois [on the Illinois River], to New Orleans; and for that purpose were to join him-Offutt-at Springfield, Illinois, so soon as the snow should go off. When it did go off, which was about the first of March, 1831, the county was so, flooded as to make traveling by land impracticable, to obviate which difficulty they purchased a large canoe, and came down the Sangamon River in it. This is the time and the manner of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1864, April (search)
April 19. A party of eighty mounted rebels attempted an invasion of Kentucky through Pound Gap, but were driven back by a detachment of the Forty-fifth Kentucky mounted infantry. A band of one hundred and fifty guerrillas was also driven out of the State into Macon County, Tenn., eight of them being killed and ten captured, with fifty of their horses.--the English schooner Fanny was captured off Velasco, Texas, by the National gunboat Owasco.
The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Military funeral. (search)
Military funeral. --Yesterday, Henry C. Smith, late of the Macon county Volunteers, was buried with military honors. In addition to the battalion to which he was attached, the Portsmouth Home Guard and a vast concourse of private citizens attended the funeral, and accompanied the remains to the grave. The scene was very impressive throughout, and, though comparatively a stranger here, his death evoked much sympathy and regret.--Portsmouth Transcript, 13th.
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], Sketches of "captured rebel Generals." (search)
the capture of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, the rebel commander of the department of Kentucky and Missouri, at Fort Donelson, will be hailed with delight throughout the loyal States, being, as he was, the senior officer of the rebel army, and the craftiest General in the rebel host. His capture is, in fact, more significant than would be the capture of half a dozen Beauregard. The latter bears no comparison for skill and daring with Gen. Johnston. Gen. Albert S. Johnston was born in Macon county, Ky., in 1803, and is consequently fifty-eight years of age. After the usual school training young Johnston was adopted by the U. States, and educated at its expense at the Military Academy at West Point. On graduating he entered the Sixth infantry, and was ordered to the West. During the Black Hawk war he acted as Adjutant General, President Lincoln being at the time a captain of volunteers. At the close of the war he resigned his commission, and resided first in Missouri, next in Texas
The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
dred, mostly sick, from the same place. They are all bound for Philadelphia. There are now at Fortress Monroe about 1,500 sick and wounded soldiers on transports, all of whom are going to different places North. It is understood here that the army hospitals of the Potomac are to be immediately cleared out of all the sick and wounded. From Missouri. Hudson, Mo., Aug. 10. --Col. McNeill again over took Porter's guerrillas yesterday at Stockton, in the western part of Macon county, and after a sharp fight, routed them, killing and wounding a large number and capturing many horses. The rebels were scattered in all directions. Some of the prisoners captured had taken the oath and given bonds. Miscellaneous. The statement of the Philadelphia Press that Gen. McCook was shot while kneeling, begging for mercy, is denied. The General's Adjutant says he was kneeling, assisting the driver to manage the frightened horses. The Navy Department have advertised
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Medical staff of the army. (search)
The Medical staff of the army. --The following is the copy of a letter writer by an aid decamp of President Davis to a prominent physician of Macon county, Ala., and will explain itself: Richmond, Sept. 1, 1862. Dear Sir. --I am directed by the President to inform you that your letter of August 21, 1862, is received, and the suggestions in it considered. Your strictures on the management of the medical staff of the army are perhaps severe, but not uncalled for. Many incompetent men have doubtless been appointed surgeons, but where is a competent surgeon or physician whose services have been rejected? The trouble is partly owing to the insufficient supply of medical and surgical skill in the country for an army of the size of that in the field. If, however, instead of a general censure, you would take the pains to single out and fix on any one or more surgeons the charges you make against them all, the public service would be subserved thereby.--If persons, who are