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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 16: (search)
is, where we were joined by my son, John A. Logan, Jr., and his family, my son's friend Gallonay, and Mrs. Washington A. Robeling, nee Emily Warren, sister of General Warren, of Gettysburg fame. From Paris our party, with the exception of my son's family, who went to Switzerland, went to Moscow, Russia, to attend the coronation of the Czar and Czarina in May, 1896. This was one of the most remarkable events of the nineteenth century, which beggars description. From Moscow we went to Saint Petersburg, and thence via the Gulf of Finland and the Gottenborg Canal to Stockholm, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and to The Hague, Holland. From Holland we went to London, and finally reached home safely after an experience of nine months of consuming interest and great profit, intellectually and physically. In 1898 war was declared in Cuba. My son determined to enter the service. He was appointed an adjutant-general on Major-General John C. Bates's staff and he served in that capacity until
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 18: the Capital secured.--Maryland secessionists Subdued.--contributions by the people. (search)
thought that the Brigadier had used too daringly the absolute power accorded to a commander of a department, unless restricted by specific orders or military law, and overlooking, for the moment, the immense advantages gained for the Government by such exercise of power, he insisted upon the recall of General Butler from Baltimore. It was done. Viewed in the light of to-day, that recall appears like an almost fatal mistake. I always said, wrote Mr. Cameron, then Secretary of War, from St. Petersburg, many The Department of Annapolis. months afterward, that if you had been left in Baltimore, the rebellion would have been of short duration. Parton's General Butler at New Orleans, page 117. There was no rebuke :in President Lincoln's recall of General Butler from Baltimore, in compliance with the wishes of General Scott. On the contrary, it had the appearance of commendation, for he immediately offered him the commission of a Major-General of Volunteers, and the command of a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bayard, James Ashton, 1767- (search)
Federal party. In 1804 he was elected to the United States Senate, in which he distinguished himself in conducting the impeachment of Senator Blount. He was chiefly instrumental in securing the election of Jefferson over Burr in 1800; and made, in the House of Representatives, in 1802, a powerful defence of the existing judiciary system, which was soon overthrown. He was in the Senate when war was declared against Great Britain in 1812. In May, 1813, he left the United States on a mission to St. Petersburg, to treat for peace with Great James Ashton Bayard. Britain under Russian mediation. The mission was fruitless. In January, 1814, he went to Holland, and thence to England. At Ghent, during that year, he, with J. Q. Adams, Clay, Gallatin, and Russell, negotiated a treaty of peace with England. He was preparing to go to England as a commissioner under the treaty, when an alarming illness seized him, and He returned home early in 1815. He died soon after his arrival, Aug. 6.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Buchanan, James, (search)
nan's career as a lawyer was so successful that, at the age of forty years, he retired from the profession with a handsome fortune. He was a Federalist in politics at first, and as such entered Congress as a member in 1821, where he held a seat ten successive years. When the Federal party disappeared he took sides with the Democrats. He supported Jackson for the Presidency in 1828, when the present Democratic party was organized. In 1832-34, Mr. Buchanan was United States minister at St. Petersburg, and from 1834 to 1845 was a member of the United States Senate. He was Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Polk, 1845-49. where he arrived himself on the side of the pro-slavery men, opposing the Wilmot proviso (q. v.), and the anti-slavery movements generally. In 1853 President Pierce sent him as United States minister to England, where he remained until 1856), during which time he became a party in the conference of United States ministers at Ostend, and was a signer of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Lewis, Meriwether (search)
al agent and correspondent there in matters not immediately diplomatic. Her permission was obtained, and an assurance of protection while the course of the voyage should be through her territories. Ledyard set out from Paris, and arrived at St. Petersburg after the Empress had left that place to pass the winter, I think, at Moscow. His finances not permitting him to make unnecessary stay at St. Petersburg, he left it with a passport from one of the ministers, and at 200 miles from KamchatkaSt. Petersburg, he left it with a passport from one of the ministers, and at 200 miles from Kamchatka was obliged to take up his winter-quarters. He was preparing, in the spring, to resume his journey, when he was arrested by an officer of the Empress, who by this time had changed her mind, and forbidden his proceeding. He was put into a close carriage, and conveyed day and night, without ever stopping, till they reached Poland, where he was set down and left to himself. The fatigue of this journey broke down his constitution; and when he returned to Paris his bodily strength was much impair
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
pt. Moses Rodgers, sails from New York, where she was built, for Savannah, Ga.......April 10, 1819 [Arriving there April 17, she sails from that port, May 24, for St. Petersburg, Russia, via Liverpool, reaches Liverpool, June 20; sails for St. Petersburg, July 23; returns to Savannah, fifty days from St. Petersburg, December, 1819; first American steamship to cross the Atlantic.] Population of the State, 1,372,111......1820 [From this time the State has been styled the Empire State. ] St. Petersburg, December, 1819; first American steamship to cross the Atlantic.] Population of the State, 1,372,111......1820 [From this time the State has been styled the Empire State. ] Revised State constitution adopted and ratified......February, 1822 Joseph C. Yates, governor......1822 Champlain Canal begun 1816, finished......1823 De Witt Clinton elected governor......1824 Lafayette lands in New York City......Aug. 15, 1824 Geneva College, Geneva, Ontario county, incorporated......1825 [Name changed to Hobart College, March 27, 1860.] Daniel D. Tompkins, born 1774, dies on Staten Island......June 11, 1825 Erie Canal completed......Oct. 26, 1825
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
was killed by the electric shock, and roasted by the electric jack, before a fire kindled by the electrified bottle. The latter was the Leyden jar, the invention of Muschenbroek and Kleist, three years previous. Franklin flew his kite in Philadelphia in 1752, and proved the substantial identity of lightning and frictional electricity. He then invented the lightning-rod for the harmless passage of the electricity. D'Alibard erected a lightning-rod in the same year. Richmann of St. Petersburg, the following year, in repeating Franklin's experiment, was killed by a stroke of lightning. Charles Marshall, in 1753, proposed insulated wires, suspended by poles, as electrical conductors for transmitting messages. Lesarge, in 1774, used twenty-four electrized wires and a pith-ball electrometer as a mode of signaling. Lomond, in 1787, used one wire and a pith-ball. Reizen, in 1794, had twenty-six line wires and letters in tin-foil which were rendered visible by electricity.
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
ean draft of 23 feet 9 inches. The plates on the ship's sides and on the raised building amidships vary from 12 to 14 inches, and the armor-plate protects the ship to a depth of 6 feet below the water-line. The vessel has no spur, but the upright stem is heavily plated and of enormous strength. The ship has two large turrets, which are plated with 16 inches of iron in two thicknesses of 14 and 2 inches. She has no masts, bat depends entirely on her compound engines, which were built at St. Petersburg. Each engine is of 700 horse-power, and connected with 2 four-bladed screws. There are 12 boilers, which will require at full speed 132 tons of coal in 24 hours; and at this rate of consumption the engines will work at 10,000 effective horse-power, and the ship will be driven at 14 1/2 knots speed per hour. If the engines are worked at the second grade of expansion, she will have coal for 17 days, steaming 12 1/2 to 13 knots per hour. With the single exception of the teak-wood back
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
inaitic, the Vatican, and the Alexandrian, many of whose various readings are given by Tischendorf in his Leipsic edition of the English New Testament. The Sinaitic manuscript, critically marked Aleph, written on parchment, was discovered by Tischendorf, February 4, 1859, in the convent of St. Catharine, on Mount Sinai, in Arabia, and published by him in fac-simile in 1862, and in the common type in 1865. It contains the entire New Testament, and is deposited in the Imperial Library at St. Petersburg. It was printed in Leipsic for the Emperor of Russia, to be a memorial of the thousandth anniversary of his king- dom. It is in uncial characters, apparently of the fourth century. The Vatican manuscript, marked B, also written about the middle of the fourth century, has been published only since 1857. It is in the Vatican Library at Rome. The Alexandrian manuscript, marked A, written about the middle of the fifth century, was first published in 1786. It is in the British Museum, a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
Rogers, of New London, Conn., was employed to navigate the vessel. Under his command the Savannah, having been duly equipped with engine and machinery steamed out of New York Harbor on the 27th day of March, 1819, bound to Savannah on her trial trip, which was successfully made. On the 26th of May in the same year she left Savannah for Liverpool, making the trip in 22 days, during 18 of which she was propelled by steam-power From Liverpool the Savannah went to Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, Cronstadt, and Arundel, and from the latter port returned to Savannah, making the passage in 25 days. The log-book of the Savannah was sent to the Navy Department in 1848. Captain Stevens Rogers died in New London in 1868. The Savannah was built by Crocker and Ficket in New York, and her engines made at Elizabethtown, N. J. In 1824, the Enterprize, under Captain Johnson, made a voyage to India, doubling the Cape of Good Hope. The Curacoa, in 1829, made several voyages between
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