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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
on Railroad, Va.   3   3 Boydton Road, Va. 1 4 29 34   Totals 111 416 86 613 Present, also, at Yorktown; Glendale; Malvern Hill; Kelly's Ford; Mine Run; Hatcher's Run; Sailor's Creek; Farmville; Appomattox. notes.--Organized as the Second Fire Zouaves, having been largely recruited from the New York Fire Department. It joined Sickles's Brigade, and arrived at Washington, 897 strong, in August, 1861. The brigade was stationed at Camp McClellan, below Washington, at Good Hope, Md., and while there was assigned to Hooker's Division, which afterwards became famous by its gallant action at Williamsburg. This one division, also, fought the battle of Bristoe Station, Va., August 27, 1862--one of the preliminary actions at Manassas — the brunt of the fight falling on the Excelsior Brigade, which successfully carried a strong position of the Confederates, but with a loss of forty per cent. The Seventy-third had only 8 officers and 99 men present there; three of these of
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
sborn HowesT. Magoun'sHayden & CudworthCrowell, Brooks, & Co.Boston1050 503 ShipRamblerT. Magoun'sHayden & CudworthBaxter & BrothersYarmouth1080 504 BarkElmwoodJ. Stetson'sT. TurnerE. BartlettBoston387 505 Plt-btWilliam H. StarkeyJ. O. Curtis'sB. F. DelanoM. HuntBoston78 506 ShipOcean TelegraphJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisReed & WadeBoston1500 507 ShipOcean ExpressJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisReed & WadeBoston2000 508 Stmr.Enoch TrainJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisTow-boat Co.Boston350 509 ShipGood HopeJ. O. Curtis'sJ. O. CurtisF. Burritt & Co. 1200 510 ShipNor'westerS. Lapham'sS. LaphamJ. S. Coolidge & Co.Boston1300 511 ShipEmmaJ. T. Foster'sJ. T. FosterJ. WellsmanCharleston, S. C.875 512 ShipAsterionJ. T. Foster'sJ. T. FosterDavid SnowBoston1170 513 Ship J. T. Foster'sJ. T. Foster(Not sold) 1300 Correct Grand Total, at $5 per ton: 232,206 tons, $10,449,270. Fisheries. To Medford belongs the honor of establishing the first fisheries in London's plantation of Massa
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
cil for New England; and it was next held by Lord Say and Seal, Lord Brooke, John 1631 Mar. 19. Hampden, and others, as his assigns. Saml. Garton's Defence, 58,59 Winthrop, II. 136. Before any colony could be established with their sanction, the people of New Plymouth had built a trading house at Wind- 1633 Oct. sor, and conducted with the natives a profitable commerce in furs. Dutch intruders from Manhattan, 1633 Jan. 8. ascending the river, had also raised at Hartford the house of Good Hope, and struggled to secure the 1635 territory to themselves. The younger Winthrop, the future benefactor of Connecticut, one of those men in whom the elements of human excellence are mingled in the happiest union, returned from England July 7. with a commission from the proprietaries of that region, to erect a fort at the mouth of the stream—a Oct. 8. purpose which was accomplished. Yet, before his arrival in Massachusetts Bay, settlements had been commenced, by emigrants from the envir
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
hree ships mentioned by Captain Clark the following passages are recorded from Boston or New York to San Francisco: Dauntless, 116 days; John Wade, 116 days; Kingfisher, 114 days; Fleetwing, 121 days; Norwester, 122 days; Morning Star, 146 days; Syren, 118 days. Other ships of this period, but not in this list of extreme clipper type, which made fast voyages to San Francisco from Boston or New York were the National Eagle, 134 days; Wild Ranger, 122 and 127 days; Osborn Howes, 153 days; Good Hope, 143 days. The Thatcher Magoun made the trip from San Francisco to New York in 94 days. The record passage was 76 days made by the Northern Light to Boston and the Comet to New York. Besides the California passages, the Whirlwind made the voyage from New York to Melbourne in 80 days. The Ringleader made the same trip in 78 days, the best day's run being 336 knots. The Shooting Star made the run from Canton to Boston in 86 days, and the Phantom made the passage from Callao t
The Daily Dispatch: June 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], [for the Richmond Dispatch.] (search)
A kind act. --We, the members of "F" Company, beg leave, Messrs. Editors, to tender, through your columns, our sincere thanks to our good friend and townsman, Coleman Wortham, for his kind and acceptable present of two boxes of his celebrated Tobacco — the "Iris" and "Good Hope." Friend Wortham knows well how to do a kind act, and has bestowed it upon those who know as well how to appreciate it. We know his "Iris" well, and, in our solitary tramps upon some lonely post, will often be reminded of his kindness and his regard for the comforts of a soldier.
The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Hospital supplies for the Army of the Northwest. (search)
illaged, and, in short, neither person nor property safe, our informant says, when any of the troops are about. Colored servants especially in danger of being seized as contraband. Privateering. The Charleston Mercury, of the 13th, says: The prize master of the bark which was captured by the privateer Jeff. Davis and ran ashore on Amelia Island, reached this city yesterday. He informs us that the vessel was the Alvarado, Captain Whiting, of and for Boston from the Caps of Good Hope, having a cargo of wool, old copper, sheep and goat skins, &c. Early on Monday, the 5th instant, when nearing Amelia Island, made a sail in chase of the Alvarado, which is supposed to have been the sloop- of-war Vincennes. In consequence of the wind being unfavorable, and the sloop-of-war our sailing the bark, they were compelled to beach her, in order to prevent her falling into the hands of the enemy. The prize crew and the former officers and crew went ashore on the Amelia Island, whe