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James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 10 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 2 0 Browse Search
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Colonel William Preston Johnston, The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston : His Service in the Armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States., Chapter 7: Secretary of War. (search)
American trader among them; that they said a large body of Indians, composed of Caddoes, Keechies, Ionies, Tawacanies, Wacocs, and Cornanches, were expected to attack the American settlements; that the Cherokees gave every indication of joining them; that the number of warriors embodied on the Trinity was estimated at 1,700; and that Bolles, the principal Cherokee chief, advised the agents to leave the country, as there was danger. M. B. Menard, who was sent to the Shawnee, Delaware, and Kickapoo tribes, reported that, while these tribes were friendly, they had been visited by Bolles, who urged them to take up arms against the Americans. Yoakum, History of Texas, vol. II., pp. 125-127, In consequence, three companies, numbering 220 men, were detained, and three more were delayed in completing their organization, until it was too late to aid the retreating army under Houston. The women and children were hurried across the Sabine, and a panic paralyzed the action of these har
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 107 (search)
. M.; Major John Hornbeak, Major A. C. Graves, Captains Blue, Landis, and Van Meter, of the Eighteenth Iowa; Lieutenants H. W. Blodgett, A. D. C., A. B. Conway, John Vaughn and D. J. McCroskey. Special praise is due to the enrolled militia, part of the Eighteenth Iowa, the Quinine brigade, and the citizens, who fought as desperately as the trained soldiers. Too much praise cannot be awarded General Brown, for his promptness, courage, discretion, and decision; I may add, for his fortitude, also. He has been much overlooked by higher authorities, much maligned by some of those under him, and even accused of cowardice. But his men now regard him with universal confidence and affection. There is one general feeling of sympathy for him, and of regret that his arm is ruined. It was not amputated, but four inches of the bone next the shoulder-joint, including the ball which fitted into the socket, have been extracted, leaving his arm to hang helpless at his side forever. Kickapoo.
James Barnes, author of David G. Farragut, Naval Actions of 1812, Yank ee Ships and Yankee Sailors, Commodore Bainbridge , The Blockaders, and other naval and historical works, The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 6: The Navy. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Naval chronology 1861-1865: important naval engagements of the Civil war March, 1861-June, 1865 (search)
3, 1863. U. S. gunboat Baron DeKalb sunk by Confed. torpedo in Yazoo River, Miss. The Kickapoo The Kickapoo with torpedo-rake ready at the bow: this new weapon of defense was used effectKickapoo with torpedo-rake ready at the bow: this new weapon of defense was used effectively during the attack on Mobile, on March 28, 1865. The Kickapoo came out safely, although the Milwaukee near-by failed to discover a Confederate torpedo in time and was sunk. August, 1863. Kickapoo came out safely, although the Milwaukee near-by failed to discover a Confederate torpedo in time and was sunk. August, 1863. August 21, 1863. U. S. brig. Bainbridge foundered. Only 1 man saved. August 23, 1863. U. S. gunboats Satellite and Reliance captured by Confederates at the mouth of the Rappahannock, Va.sarge, and 115 reached England and France. 3 persons only were wounded on the Kearsarge. The Kickapoo A forerunner of the new navy the Kickapoo on the Mississippi: one of the five river monitorKickapoo on the Mississippi: one of the five river monitors built on Admiral Porter's enthusiastic recommendation, after he had officially examined the original Ericsson Monitor in 1861. August, 1864. August 5, 1864. Great battle at the entrance
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pierce, Franklin 1804-1869 (search)
he governor, and the general business of legislation was entered upon by the legislative Assembly. But after a few days the Assembly resolved to adjourn to another place in the Territory. A law was accordingly passed, against the consent of the governor, but in due form otherwise, to remove the seat of government temporarily to the Shawnee manual labor School (or mission), and thither the Assembly proceeded. After this, receiving a bill for the establishment of a ferry at the town of Kickapoo, the governor refused to sign it, and by special message assigned for reason of refusal not anything objectionable in the bill itself nor any pretence of the illegality or incompetency of the Assembly as such, but only the fact that the Assembly had by its act transferred the seat of government temporarily from Pawnee City to the Shawnee Mission. For the same reason he continued to refuse to sign other bills, until, in the course of a few days, he by official message communicated to the As
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 33: Texas and Texans. (search)
re. I brought some short-horns out from Essex; in three lives they have all gone back to long-horns. A Texan builds no cattle-sheds. Once he has turned his herds into the grazing lands, he lets them run wild, and stay out all the year. Who knows what happens with such herds? If left alone all animals go wild; a steer but some degrees faster than a lad. The son of a White man who had been stolen as a child by Kickapoos and mated in their tribe has been found as savage as an ordinary Kickapoo. Some persons blame the Negroes as the evil demons of this country, charging them with a propensity to acts of violence, a disposition to abuse whatever favour they obtain, and an extreme antipathy to family order and domestic arts. Some grains of truth there are in what these critics urge. The Negro, as he lives in Texas, is a savage, but without the virtues of a Cherokee. Unbroken to the yoke, he hardly understands the meaning of a moral code, a social compact, or a family law. To
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 34: the three races. (search)
ttled state. We are not strong enough to overlook offences. Why do we carry arms? From fear of an attack. Why do we fire so readily? In order to forestall a blow. When people feel secure, they cease to shoot each other in the street. But in the country — in the cattle-runs, and on the cotton plantations? In the cattle-runs we are rather wild; knowing hardly any ministers of justice save the hatchet and revolver. But remember where the cattle-runs lie: within an easy ride of Kickapoo tents. The cotton-yards are better than the cattle-runs; the Negro being less brutal, if more vicious, than the Kickapoo. I cannot say that in Texas a fellow thinks it wrong to kill his creditor, his wife's seducer, and his tipsy comrade. It will be long ere Austin and Indianola are as tame as Norwich and Yarmouth, but the Anglo-Saxon blood is there, with all its staying power. A few English ladies would assist the progress of refining much. A lady never feels her sceptre till she fi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 23 (search)
ed out, not more learned ones, to meet it. I blushed burning red to the ears the other day as a friend here laid his hand upon a newspaper containing the address of the students at Baltimore to Mr. Monroe, with the translation of it. It was less matter that the translation was not English; my German friend could not detect that. But that the original was not Latin I could not, alas! conceal. It was, unfortunately, just like enough to very bad Latin to make it impossible to pass it off for Kickapoo or Pottawattamy, which I was at first indined to attempt. My German persisted in it that it was meant for Latin, and I wished in my heart that the Baltimore lads would stick to the example of their fathers and mob the Federalists, so they would give over this inhuman violence on the poor old Romans. I say nothing of ye (sic) address, for like all [illegible] it seems to have been ye (sic) object, in the majority of those productions, for those who made them to compliment, not the Preside
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, I. List of officers from Massachusetts in United States Navy, 1861 to 1865. (search)
Dunbarton: Onondaga; Gov. Buckingham; Snowdrop.North Atlantic.Aug. 8, ‘77.Deceased.Hate. Tew, James B., Credit, Weston.Mass.Mass.Mass.Jan. 12, 1863.Actg. Master's Mate.Quaker City.North Atlantic.Oct. 19, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Jan. 31, 1865.Actg. Ensign. Thacher, Oliver, Credit, Ashland.-Mass.Mass.Mar. 4, 1862.Actg. Master.Gemsbok; O. H. Lee.West India; East Gulf.Nov. 21, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Master. Thayer, Foster,Ohio.Mass.Mass.June 17, 1864.Actg. Asst. Surgeon.Kickapoo.West Gulf.June 9, 1865.Resigned.Actg. Asst. Surgeon. Thayer, Isaac,Mass.Mass.Mass.Mar. 28, 1864.Actg. Ensign.Mendota.North Atlantic.Aug. 1, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Ensign. Thayer, William L. G.,Vt.Mass.Mass.Nov. 17, 1864.Actg. Asst. Paymr.Wando.South Atlantic.Oct. 15, 1865.Hon. discharged.Actg. Asst. Paymr. Thode, John W.,Germany.Mass.Mass.Jan. 8, 1862.Actg. Master's Mate.Katahdin; James Adger.West Gulf; North Atlantic.Sept. 23, 1862.Resigned.Actg. Master's Mate. Feb. 2, 1864.Act
The Daily Dispatch: October 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Capture of a Federal officer by a boy. (search)
boy "had heard of wars and longed to follow in the train" of some bold leader to avenge his country's wrongs; but being too young to enter regularly into service, he accompanied his father, as an independent volunteer, to the plains of Manassas, and with fowling piece in hand, held himself ready to bring down Northern vultures at sight. About the commencement of the famous rout George saw a Yankee Lieutenant making a retrograde movement, and, putting whip to his horse, made after him. "Kickapoo" (who was as keen to catch a Hessian as his young master) cleared the fence at a bound and soon showed the retreating officer that one pair of legs are of little avail against two pair; he stopped short and displayed a flag of truce, George then took possession of him, buckled his sword and pistols around his own waist, and marched him off to headquarters in "double quick." When he was sent with other prisoners to Richmond, George took leave of him and offered to return his pistols; but he