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General James Longstreet, From Manassas to Appomattox, Chapter 1: the Ante-bellum life of the author. (search)
s accepted and ratified the resolutions of annexation by unanimous vote, and Texas was a State of the Union. General Taylor's little army of observation was ordered to Corpus Christi, Texas, and became The Army of occupation. All other available forces were ordered to join him, including General Worth and his forces in Florida. At the time there were in the line of the army eight regiments of infantry, four of artillery, and two of dragoons, stationed along the northern frontier from Fort Kent in the northeast of Maine to the west end of Lake Superior, and along the western frontier from Fort Snelling to Fort Leavenworth, and southward to Fort Jessup in Louisiana. By the middle of October, 1846, three thousand eight hundred and sixty men of all arms had concentrated at Corpus Christi. Seven companies of the Second Dragoons had marched from Fort Jessup to San Patricio on the Nueces River, about twenty-eight miles up from Corpus Christi; the other three companies were halted
The Daily Dispatch: January 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Heat and cold in the United States. (search)
Heat and cold in the United States. --The meteorological tables which accompany the report on the sickness and mortality of the army of the United States, are very full and complete. It appears therefrom that the greatest thermometrical range at any of the military posts is 147 degrees, this being at Fort Ripley, Minnesota; at Fort Kent, in Maine, it is 137 degrees. The greatest degree of cold at the former post is 50 below zero, and at the latter 37 below zero. In not far from the same latitude, in the region of the lakes and at a similar altitude, at Forts Brady and Howard, in Michigan, the range is scarcely less. At Fort Wilkins, on Lake Superior, which is almost surrounded by water, the degree of cold is only 9 below zero. In Washington Territory, at Fort Stelacoom, in the same latitude, the range is only 95 degrees, the mercury falling to only 1 degree below zero. The greatest heat is at Fort Yuma, in Southern California, situated in latitude 32, on the Colorado river