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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prisoners, exchange of (search)
prisoners at Fort Monroe, said in a letter: On the 25th of November I offered to send immediately to City Point 12,000 or more Confederate prisoners, to be exchanged for National soldiers confined in the South. This proposition was distinctly and unequivocally refused by Mr. Ould. And why? Because the damnable plans of the rebel government in relation to our poor captured soldiers had not been fully carried out. The testimony seems clear that the Union prisoners at Richmond, Danville, Salisbury, and Andersonville were subjected to cruelties and poisonous food for the double purpose of crippling and reducing the National force and of striking terror into the Northern population, in order to prevent enlistments. When Gen. John Winder, Davis's general commissary of prisoners, went from Richmond to take charge of the Union prisoners at Andersonville, the Examiner of that city exclaimed: Thank God that Richmond is at last rid of old Winder! God have mercy upon those to whom he has
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sanders's Creek, battle of. (search)
mpelled to get their supplies from day to day by impressment. With De Kalb's forces were two North Carolina regiments, under the respective commands of Colonels Rutherford and Caswell, who were chiefly employed in repressing the North Carolina Tories. The governor of that State (Nash) had recently been authorized by the legislature to send 8,000 men to the relief of South Carolina. To raise and equip them was not easy at that gloomy juncture. The Virginia regiment of Porterfield was at Salisbury. It rallied to the standard of De Kalb, whose slow march became a halt at Deep River, a tributary of the Cape Fear. There De Kalb was overtaken by General Gates (July 25), who had been appointed to the command of the Southern Department. Gates pressed forward towards Camden, through a barren and generally disaffected country. The approach of the conqueror of Burgoyne greatly inspired the patriots of South Carolina, and such active partisans as Sumter, Marion, Pickens, and Clarke imme
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Southern army, the Continental (search)
men, apportioned among the counties, and a special tax was laid to raise means to pay bounties. In addition to money offered, volunteers were each offered 300 acres of land at the end of the war and a healthy, sound negro or $200 in specie. Virginia also issued $850,000 in bills of credit to supply the treasury. North Carolina used its feeble resources to the same end. Drafts and recruits, and one whole battalion, came forward; and as Cornwallis retired General Gates advanced, first to Salisbury, and then to Charlotte, where General Greene took the command (Dec. 2). On the following day Gates departed for the headquarters of Washington to submit to an inquiry into his conduct at Camden. Greene found the troops in a wretched condition —clothes in tatters, insufficient food, pay in arrears producing discontent, and not a dollar in the military chest. Subsistence was obtained only by impressment. But he showed his usual energy and prepared for active operations even with such unpr
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
27. Hinton, Frederick A. [b. North Carolina], 1.342, on effect of G.'s address to colored people, 334.—Letter to I. Knapp, 1.334.—See J. McCrummell. Hoby, J., Rev., British abolitionist, 1.480; dodges abolitionists in U. S., 480, 481, 2.212, 401; censured by Thompson, 2.83, by G., 384. Hodgkin, Thomas, defence of Colon. Society, 1.301; backs Cresson, 353. Hodgson, Joseph, 2.59. Hoge, Thomas [d. 1835], 2.323. Holiness, doctrine of. See Perfectionism. Holley, Myron [b. Salisbury, Conn., April 29, 1779; d. Rochester, N. Y., Mar. 4, 1841], career, 2.259; Third Party resolutions, 309; at Cleveland Convention, 310, support and opposition, 311, defeat, 314; success at Warsaw Convention, 319, and Arcade, 341; prepares Albany Convention, 339-342; Life by E. Wright, 316.— Portrait in Life. Holmes, Obadiah, Rev. [d. 1682, aged 75], 1.426. Holst, Hermann von [b. 1841], censure of Thompson, 1.439. Homer, James L., excites Boston mob, 2.10, 11, divides the relics, 18; vo<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1845. (search)
reatest advantage. Gentle and wise, with a beautiful fulness of expression and illustration, and a wit that was at once considerate and unrestrained, no one was more valued and cherished than he, wherever the best elements of culture were appreciated. He being the third of his family, in direct descent, who had borne arms in the service of our country, each of the wars which tell its history had added to the lustre of his name. His grandfather, Dr. Joshua Porter, a physician in Salisbury, Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College, was colonel of a regiment in the Revolutionary war, and took part in the battle of Saratoga. His father, Major-General Peter B. Porter, also born in Connecticut, an officer of great distinction in the war of 1812, bore a most important part in the military events on the Northern frontier, and at the battles of Lundy's Lane and the sortie from Fort Erie gained a name for courage and conduct which the historian of that period called upon his son, while
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), William Preston Johnston. (search)
te Randall L. Gibson. Josiah Stoddard Johnston, of Natchitoches, United States Senator from this State, was an uncle of Colonel Johnston, being the elder half-brother of General Albert Sidney Johnston, who was a son of Dr. John Johnston, of Salisbury, Conn., and Abigail Harris, his second wife. Dr. John Johnston was the third son of Captain Archibald Johnston, of Salisbury, Conn., a Revolutionary soldier, of Scotch descent, the family settling first in Duchess county, N. Y. He was a foremost mSalisbury, Conn., a Revolutionary soldier, of Scotch descent, the family settling first in Duchess county, N. Y. He was a foremost man in his day and generation. Edward Harris, father of Colonel Johnston's paternal grandmother, was a captain in the Revolutionary army, originally of Massachusetts, and a pioneer of Kentucky. Henrietta Preston, Colonel Johnston's mother, was a daughter of Major William Preston, United States army, and Caroline Hancock, a descendant of the Hancock and Strother families of Virginia. Major Preston served under Anthony Wayne against the Indians after the Revolutionary war. He was a son of Colone
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