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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 (search)
e not so, if injuries inflicted and retaliated of necessity led to new retaliations, with forever accumulating compound interest of revenge, then the world, thousands of years ago, would have been turned into an earthly hell, and the nations of the earth would have been resolved into clans of furies and demons, each forever warring with his neighbor. But it is not so; all history teaches a different lesson. The Wars of the Roses in England lasted an entire generation, from the battle of St. Albans, in 1455, to that of Bosworth Field, in 1485. Speaking of the former, Hume says: This was the first blood spilt in that fatal quarrel, which was not finished in less than a course of thirty years; which was signalized by twelve pitched battles; which opened a scene of extraordinary fierceness and cruelty; is computed to have cost the lives of eighty princes of the blood; and almost entirely annihilated the ancient nobility of England. The strong attachments which, at that time, men of th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Fenian Brotherhood, the. (search)
rfered seriously with the unanimity of action in the body. Early in April an attempt was made to gather arms and men for an advance upon New Brunswick, and 500 Fenians assembled at Eastport, Me. The United States authorities interfered, however; aid which was expected from New York and Boston did not arrive; and the men disbanded. On May 19, 1,200 stands of arms, which had been sent to Rouse's Point, were seized by the United States government, and on May 30 a similar seizure was made at St. Albans. June 1, about 1,500 men crossed into Canada at Buffalo. The Dominion militia had been called out, and on June 2 a severe skirmish occurred, in which the Fenians lost heavily in prisoners and wounded men, though not many were killed. Attempting to get back over the border into this country, 700 of them were captured by the United States authorities. Other bands had by this time reached the frontier, but as a cordon of United States troops, under General Meade, guarded the line, they ma
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hoskins, Nathan 1795-1869 (search)
Hoskins, Nathan 1795-1869 Author; born in Withersfield, Vt., April 27, 1795; graduated at Dartmouth in 1820; taught in St. Albans, Vt., in 1821-22; afterwards practised law in Vergennes, Vt., and edited The Vermont Aurora. His publications include History of Vermont; Notes on the West; and The Bennington Court controversy and strictures on Civil liberty in the United States. He died in Williamstown, Mass., April 21, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Prevost, Sir George 1767-1816 (search)
assured Macomb that the militia would cross the lake in spite of the governor. After the officer left, Williams suggested to Macomb that a letter from Fassett, declaring that a heavy body of militia were about to cross the lake, sent so as to fall into the hands of the British general, would have a salutary effect. Macomb directed Williams to carry out the plan. He went over to Burlington, and received from Fassett a letter to Macomb, in which he said Chittenden was marching with 10,000 men from St. Albans, that 5,000 men were marching from St. Lawrence county, and that 4,000 from Washington county were in motion. This letter Williams placed in the hands of a shrewd Irishwoman at Cumberland Head, who took it to Prevost just after the battle at Plattsburg had ended. Prevost, who was naturally timid, was greatly alarmed by the intercepted letter, and at a little past midnight his whole army were flying in haste towards the Canada frontier. He died in London, England, Jan. 5, 1816.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Albans, (search)
city and county seat of Franklin county, Vt., near Lake Champlain. On Oct. 19, 1864, a party of armed Confederate refugees in Canada, under the leadership of Lieut. Bennett H. Young, raided the town in the afternoon, and attacked the St. Albans, Franklin County, and First National banks. They overpowered the few employes of the banks then on duty, secured an aggregate of $211,150 in bank-notes, seized all the horses they could find, and rode off hastily towards Canada. The party numbered beown was again a centre of public interest. An invasion of Canada from the United States had been arranged for the spring by members of the Fenian Brotherhood. Buffalo, N. Y., and Detroit, Mich., were chosen as the principal rendezvous, and St. Albans, Vt., and Odgensburg, N. Y., as depots for the accumulation of arms and stores, and as points of departure for subordinate contingents of the army of invasion. The vigilance of the United States government and lack of harmony among the Fenian le
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Saxe, John Godfrey 1816-1887 (search)
Saxe, John Godfrey 1816-1887 Author; born in Highgate, Vt., June 2, 1816; graduated at Middlebury College in 1839; admitted to the bar in St. Albans, and practised in Franklin county in 1843-50; was editor of the Burlington Sentinel in 1850-56; attorney for Vermont; Democratic candidate for governor in 1859 and again in 1860; and was the author of Progress; The money King; Clever stories of many Nations, and several volumes of humorous poems. He died in Albany, N. Y., March 31, 1887.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, William Farrar 1824- (search)
Smith, William Farrar 1824- Military officer; born in St. Albans, Vt., Feb. 17, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1845, entering the corps of topographical engineers. He was engaged in several important military surveys before the Civil War. When that began he was secretary of the light-house board at Washington. He became a brigadier-general of volunteers in August, 1861, having done good service in the battle of Bull Run the previous month. In the Peninsular campaign he was particularly distinguished, and was promoted to major-general (July, 1862). He commanded a division in Franklin's corps, and was in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He commanded the 6th Corps at Fredericksburg (December, 1862) ; was chief engineer of the Army of the Cumberland late in 1863; was active in operations about Chattanooga late in that year; and from May to July, 1864, commanded the 18th Corps, Army of the Potomac. He was brevetted major-general for gallant and meritorious services d
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ship Wachusett, and taken to Hampton Roads, where she is sunk by a collision a few days after......Oct. 7, 1864 Chief-Justice Roger B. Taney dies in Washington......Oct. 12, 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Va.......Oct. 19, 1864 Raid on St. Albans, Vt., by Confederates from Canada......Oct. 19, 1864 Confederates under Price enter Linn county, Kan......Oct. 23, 1864 Confederate ram Albemarle blown up by Lieutenant Cushing, U. S. N., at Plymouth, N. C.......Oct. 27, 1864 Battle of H day; the longest term of volunteers on record......May 28, 1866 Death of Gen. Winfield Scott at West Point, aged eighty......May 29, 1866 Customs officers seize 1,200 stands of Fenian arms at Rouse's Point, N. Y., May 19, and 1,000 at St. Alban's, Vt.......May 30, 1866 Fenian raid into Canada; about 1,200 men cross the Niagara River at Buffalo, N. Y., landing near old Fort Erie, May 31, 1866. After a skirmish near Ridgeway they withdraw to the United States, where many are arrested f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Vermont, (search)
mont regiment reaches New York City......May 10, 1861 Personal liberty bill of 1858 repealed as inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States......1861 Southern refugees in Canada, under Lieut. Bennett H. Young, rob the banks of St. Albans, escaping into Canada with over $200,000......Oct. 19, 1864 Norwich University removed to Northfield......1866 Vermont ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment......Nov. 9, 1866 Vermont ratifies the Fifteenth Amendment......Oct. 21, 1869 G the Union and dedication of the battle monument (308 feet high) at Bennington......Aug. 19, 1891 Legislature called in special session concerning direct-tax money refunded by Congress......Aug. 25, 1891 Ex-Gov. John Gregory Smith dies at St. Albans......Nov. 6, 1891 Redfield Proctor appointed United States Senator, Aug. 25; qualifies......Dec. 7, 1891 Redfield Proctor elected United States Senator......Oct. 19, 1892 Justin S. Morrill dies at Washington, D. C......Dec. 28, 1898
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wines, Enoch Cobb 1806-1879 (search)
Wines, Enoch Cobb 1806-1879 Penalogist; born in Hanover, N. J., Feb. 17, 1806; graduated at Middlebury College in 1827; taught school in St. Albans, Vt., Alexandria, Va., and Washington, D. C.; became a teacher on board the United States ship Constellation in 1829; and later taught in Princeton and Burlington, N. J., and Philadelphia, Pa.; was ordained in the Congregational Church in 1849, and held pastorates in Cornwall, Vt., and Easthampton, L. I., till 1854, when he was appointed Professor of Ancient Languages in Washington College, Pa. He was made president of the University of St. Louis in 1859; was secretary of the New York Prison Association from 1862 till his death; and was actively engaged in prison reform. In 1871 he was sent to Europe by the United States government to make arrangements for the international penitentiary congress which met in London, England, July 4, 1872. It appointed an international commission, of which Dr. Wines was made chairman. He published m