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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Vicksburg during the siege. (search)
body-nobody. There were great adverse odds to begin with. General Grant, according to Badeau, had 130,000 men at his disposal with which to effect the reduction of Vicksburg; while the effectives of Johnston and Pemberton combined-and they were never combined-never reached one-third that number. General Johnston was too sick when he arrived at Jackson to take command in the field ( Narrative, page 187), an illness which infected the very life-blood of our enterprise, like the Earl of Northumberland's. General Johnston covers the whole ground in saying of General Pemberton, His design and objects and mine are founded on exactly opposite military principles. General Johnston was not in accord with the Richmond government, and General Pemberton was not in accord with General Johnston. Those whom God had put asunder, man had.joined together. Mistaking and mistrusting each other, neither one did as well as he might have done without the other. General Pemberton thought the objective
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Canals. (search)
and Erie8,062,6801835274Cincinnati, O., to Toledo, O. Morris 6,000,0001836103Easton, Pa., to Jersey City, N. J. Muscle Shoals and Elk River Shoals.3,156,919188916Big Muscle Shoals, Tenn., to Elk River Shoals, Tenn. Newbern and Beaufort3Clubfoot Creek to Harlow Creek, N C. Ogeechee 407,818184016Savannah River, Ga., to Ogeechee River, Ga. Ohio 4,695,2041835317Cleveland, O., to Portsmouth, O. Oswego5,239,526182838Oswego, N. Y., to Syracuse, N. Y. Pennsylvania7,731,7501839193Columbia, Northumberland, W1ilkesbarre, Huntingdon, Pa. Portage Lake and Lake Superior528,892187325From Keweenaw Bay to Lake Superior. Port Arthur18997Port Arthur, Tex., to Gulf of Mexico. Santa Fe 70,00188010Waldo, Fla., to Melrose, Fla. Sault Ste. Marie 4,000,00018953Connects Lakes Superior and Huron at St. Mary's River. Schuylkill Navigation Co12,461,6001826108Mill Creek, Pa., to Philadelphia, Pa. Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michigan99,66118811 1-4Between Green Bay and Lake Michigan. St. Mary's Falls7,909,66
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Covenhoven, Robert 1755-1846 (search)
ipated in the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and then returned to northern Pennsylvania, where he was employed in the defence of the frontier against the Indians. An incident in his life furnishes a glimpse of the state of society at that time. In February, 1778, Covenhoven was married to Mercy Kelsey in New Jersey. While the nuptial ceremony was in progress, it was interrupted by the sudden arrival of a troop of Hessian soldiers. The groom escaped through a window, but, returning at night, he carried away his bride to his Pennsylvania home. From that time until the close of the war he participated as watcher, guide, and soldier in opposing the forays of the barbarians; and was in the desperate engagement of Wyalusing. He ranks in tradition among the genuine heroes of America. In 1796-97 he superintended the construction of a wagon-road through the wilderness from the mouth of Lycoming Creek to Painted Post, Steuben co., N. Y. He died in Northumberland, Pa., Oct. 29, 1846.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
army, seized as a spy at Tappan, N. Y., Sept. 23, 1780, tried by military court and hanged......Oct. 2, 1780 Stewart, Wright, Porter, Vigol, and Mitchell, Western insurgents, found guilty......1795 William Blount, United States Senate, impeached for misdemeanor......1797 William Cobbett, for libelling the King of Spain and his ambassador, writing as Peter Porcupine in Porcupine's gazette, July 17, before Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; acquitted......1797 Thomas Cooper, of Northumberland, Pa., convicted under the sedition act of libel on the administration of President Adams in Reading Advertiser of Oct. 26, 1799, imprisonment for six months and $400 fine......1799 Duane, Reynolds, Moore, and Cumming acquitted of seditious riot, Pennsylvania......1799 Matthew Lyon convicted in Vermont, October, 1798, of writing for publication a letter calculated to stir up sedition and to bring the President and the government into contempt ; confined four months in Vergennes jail;
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Walker, Robert James 1801-1869 (search)
Walker, Robert James 1801-1869 Financier; born in Northumberland, Pa., July 23, 1801; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1819. In 1826 he settled in Natchez, Miss.; was United States Senator from 1837 to 1845, being a Democratic leader in that body, warmly supported the financial measures of President Van Buren; and had great influence over President Tyler, counselling the vigorous steps which led to the annexation of Texas. During the administration of President Polk he was Secretary of the Treasury, and in 1857-58 was governor of Kansas Territory. He resigned, being unwilling, he said, to aid in forcing slavery on that Territory by fraud and forgery. In 1863-64 he was financial agent of the United States in Europe, effecting the sale of $250,000,000 of fivetwenty bonds, and defeating the second authorized Confederate loan of $175,000,000. He was an efficient advocate of the Pacific Railroad and of free-trade. His celebrated report in favor of free-trade was re
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
-plating. Fig. 2703 shows broadside views of a number of English iron-clads, and is introduced to illustrate the modes of arming and of protecting; the shaded portions indicating the partial protection only, afforded in some instances to the battery and engines, and at about the water-line. a shows the Warrior and Black Prince class of 6,039 tons. b, the Achilles, of the same size. c, the Defence and Resistance, 3,668 tons. d, the Hector and Valiant, 4,063 tons. c, the Northumberland, Minotaur, and Agincourt, 6,621 tons. f, the Prince Consort, Royal oak, Royal Alfred, Ocean triumph, and Caledonia, 4,045 tons. g, the Royal sovereign, 5-turreted vessel, 3,765 tons. h, the Prince Albert, 6-turreted vessel, 2,529 tons. i, a two-shield ship of 1,385 tons. j, the Enterprise, 990 tons. k, the Favorite, 2,186 tons. The lower portion of the figure is a midship section of a British iron-clad ship of 1,385 tons, carrying two of the shields as adapted by Cap
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
er sep′a-rat-ing. Pattinson's method (English) of separating lead from silver is an economical substitute for cupellation. It is founded upon the property which pure lead has of crystalizing out of a solution of silver in lead. The argentiferous lead being fused is allowed to cool slowly, solid crystals of nearly pure lead are first formed, and are separated by an iron strainer from time to time, the melted remainder becoming still richer in silver. At Beaumont's works, Allenheads, Northumberland, the process is conducted in hemispherical, cast-iron pans, each holding about 3 tons of metal and heated by a fire beneath. The process is several times repeated, and the remaining metal is treated by cupellation. Argentiferous lead ores containing only 3 ounces of silver to the ton can be profitably worked for the silver by this means, while 20 ounces of silver to the ton scarcely paid when treated by the process of cupellation. See also cupellation; Pattinson's pots; lead-bath.
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 9 (search)
amuel (6), m. Mary Williams, 15 Nov. 1802. Mary d. 11 Nov. 1807, a. 25. Had Martha Williams, bap. (a. 7 yrs.) 7 Oct. 1810—the Martha Mary Williams, adm. Pct. ch. 13 Oct. 1822, and who m. here James Russell, 2d, 6 Nov. 1825. Daniel, of Northumberland, Penn., m. Mary Pool, of Boston, 14 Apr. 1825. He m. a second wife, Zerviah———, and d. elsewhere, 13 Feb. 1847, a. 67 1/4; had by second wf. six chil.—see Locke Book. 16. Isaac, s. of Samuel (6), m. Hannah Butterfield, 22 Mar. 1807. He d. 2ford, m. Elizabeth Hassell of Chas. this Pct. 27 Nov. 1740. See Wyman, 765. Pool, Scipio, of Medford, m. Rose Cutler of Camb., 1 Sept. 1768. They were slaves. (For Scipio, see Hist. Medf. 438.) Mary, of Boston, m. Daniel Locke, of Northumberland, Penn., 14 Apr. 1825 (par. 15). Porter, Phebe, daughter of Samuel, of Hadley, adm. Pct. ch. 6 Sept. 1741. Hannah, m. William Locke, Jr., 20 July, 1806 (par. 22). Elizabeth, d. 12 Feb. 1828, a. 71. James, m. Hannah H. Cutter, 17 Oct. 183