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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 23: (search)
Leesburgh, did the thing handsomely; he killed more than the number of his own men actually engaged; made prisoners of twice as many, and drowned the rest. I hear he came from Fife before entering the Northern army. Yes, dear old Scotland has given a good many men in this war-there's McClellan from Argyle, and Scott from Dumfries, and- Johnstone might have gone on claiming Southern celebrities for natives of Scotia, but Moore, becoming indignant, swore roundly that Beauregard was from Limerick, and Lee from Cork, so that those of us who had not gone beyond a dozen glasses, were obliged to take care of those who had, and to conduct them to chambers, where they might dream over the question of Homer and Garibaldi being Irish or Scotch, without fear of using empty bottles for weapons. Having seen some, who required it, comfortably provided for the night, Dobbs and myself retired to the same room; while smoking, the conversation turned on Jackson, whose movements in the Valley be
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 71: letters from prison. (search)
hose opinions are unchanged conform his action to changed circumstances, and both classes may preserve their integrity and live and work in harmony. Our life is spent in choosing between evils, and he would be most unwise who would refuse the comparative good thus to be obtained. History is ever repeating itself, but the influence of Christianity and letters has softened its harsher features. The wail of destitute women and children who were left on the shore of Cork after the treaty of Limerick, still rings in the ears of all who love right and hate oppression; but bad as was the treatment of the Irish then, those scenes of which you were reading not long before you left Richmond, enacted by Philip of Spain in the Low Countries, were worse. The unfortunate have always been deserted and betrayed; but did ever man have less to complain of when he had lost power to serve? The critics are noisy-perhaps they hope to enhance their wares by loud crying. The multitudes are silent, why
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of First Maryland regiment. (search)
upport of Jefferson Davis and A. H. Stephens was added. Judges of election were appointed, and the voting commenced. But in the course of the day it became manifest that the time-honored customs of a Baltimore election were not forgotten. Pins were stuck into unhappy voters, individuals from the rural districts of Tennessee and Virginia were cooped, and voted indiscriminately. Blood-Tubs and Black-Snakes contended for possession of the polls, and were in turn swept away by a charge from Limerick, Conservative gentlemen in store clothes attempting to vote were elbowed and squeezed and twisted so that they could not tell, for the life of them, which side they were on, or which they desired to support. And so it went for one whole day of boisterous fun and frolic, officers and men, all entering heartily into the spirit of the hour, forgetful for the moment of the 300,000 bayonets that kept them from their homes. The polls were closed and it was found that the Howard and Davis tick
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
s I know very few, even went to the extent of expatriating themselves, and joined Maximilian in Mexico. Against no one as much as me did the hostility of our victorious enemy manifest itself, but I was never willing to seek the remedy of exile, and always advised those who consulted me against that resort. The mass of our people could not go; the few who were able to do so were most needed to sustain the others in the hour of a common adversity. The example of Ireland after the Treaty of Limerick, and of Canada after its conquest by Great Britain, were instructive as to the duty of the influential men to remain and share the burden of a common disaster. With General E. K. Smith's surrender the Confederate flag no longer floated on the land; only one gallant sailor still unfurled it on the Pacific. Captain Waddell, commanding the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah, swept the ocean from Australia nearly to Behring's Straits, making many captures in the Okhobak Sea and Arctic Ocean. I
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Huger, Isaac -1797 (search)
Huger, Isaac -1797 Military officer; born on Limerick Plantation, S. C., March 19, 1742. He and his four brothers—Daniel, John, Francis, and Benjamin—were distinguished in the struggle for independence, the latter falling in the lines at Charleston, May 11, 1780. They were of Huguenot descent. Isaac was in the Cherokee expedition in 1760, and entered the patriot army of South Carolina as lieutenant-colonel in June, 1775. He rose to brigadier-general in January, 1779, for active and gallant services. In the attack on Savannah, in the fall of that year, he led the Georgia and South Carolina militia. His force was defeated and dispersed by Tarleton at Monk's Corner, S. C. He distinguished himself under Greene, especially at Guilford and Hobkirk's Hill (q. v.). He died in Charleston, S. C., Oct. 17, 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Steam navigation. (search)
g Port. PresidentBritish and American S. N. CompanyBritish136March 11, 1841 PacificCollins LineAmerican240Sept. 23, 1856 TempestAnchor LineBritish150Feb. 26, 1857 United KingdomAnchor LineBritish 80April 17, 1868 City of BostonInman LineBritish177Jan. 28, 1870 ScanderiaAnglo Egyptian LineBritish 38Oct. 8, 1872 IsmailiaAnchor LineBritish 52Sept. 27, 1873 ColomboWilson LineBritish44January, 1877 Herman LudwigGerman50Sept. 28, 1878 HomerBritish43Dec. 17, 1878 ZanzibarBritish48Jan. 11, 1879 SurbitonBritish33Feb. 18 1879 BcrniciaBritish45March 19, 1879 City of LimerickBritish43Jan. 8, 1881 City of LondonBritish41Nov. 13, 1881 Straits of DoverBritish27Jan. 3, 1883 ConistonBritish27Dec. 24, 1884 FerwoodBritish25Jan. 20, 1885 PrestonBritish29Jan. 20, 1885 ClandonBritish27Jan. 24, 1885 HumberBritish56Feb. 15, 1885 ErinNational Line British72Dec. 31, 1889 ThanemorcJohnston LineBritish43Nov. 26, 1890 NaronicWhite Star LineBritishFebruary, 1893 steamboats, Hudson River
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 10., chapter 5 (search)
perience at Salem. In Ireland, however, his fame must have increased and spread the length of the land, for his labors in the north were known in the south in those days of poor communication and religious differences. At Waterford, on the southeast coast, a company was incorporated in 1793, who subscribed £ 30,000 in £ 100 shares to build a bridge over the Suir from the western extremity of the city to the northern suburb of Ferry-bank, where is now the joint terminus of the Waterford, Limerick and Western and the Waterford and Central Ireland Railways. The work was begun 30 April, 1793, the year the bill was passed for relieving the Roman Catholics from disabilities and admitting them to the parliamentary franchises. The bridge was opened 18 January, 1794. It was built at a total cost of £ 27,000, including ferry rights, and as it was below the estimate, only £ 90 instead of £ 100 was paid on each share. It is still the property of a company, which annually receives over £ 6,<
The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
my pride and boast, and a son of the most estimable of parents — should be found in a camp composed in the main of the very seam of social vice, and actuated by motives that would put to the blush the most mercenary soldier of Oliver Cromwell. I know not sir, what your instincts may be, but I would rather herd with swine. But I think I hear you respond, "The old Constitution must be maintained inviolate." I wish, sir, that this had been does in the part. So I wish that the Treaty of Limerick had been observed. But as that treaty was violated, so was the American Constitution Tell me, sir, did you ever know a Republican member of Congress or State Legislature who property regarded his oath to uphold the Federal Constitution, or who did not set the of his party above the opinions of the Courts? I never did. But in this connection me to remind you of a few facts. Before the election of Abraham Lincoln the dominant party of your section were notoriously opposed to "the Uni
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Further by the Bohemian. (search)
full details of the expedition of the Bulldog and Fox for ascertaining the feasibility of the projected North Atlantic Telegraph. The results are pronounced highly satisfactory and encouraging. The London Times has another editorial on the political split in the United States, and expresses the hope that the quarrel may give way to a calm, in which the real difficulties of the slavery question may be met and quietly answered. A banquet was given on the 3d inst., in the Theatre at Limerick, to about eighty members of the Irish Brigade which figured in the recent campaign in the Papal States. The demonstration was attended with much enthusiasm. A fearful explosion had occurred in the Rise a coal mine, near Newport, Wales, entailing the loss of about 170 lives. Opening the safety valves to obtain lights for pipes is believed to have been the cause of the explosion. Sir Henry Marsh, the eminent Dublin physician, died suddenly on the 2d, from apoplexy. Financial a
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
he Etna left Liverpool on the 19th, and had not been heard of. The Nova Scotian would take her place from Liverpool on the 20th. The Etna passed numerous icebergs, some over two hundred feet high. England The weather was fine for the crops, causing a decline in breadstuffs, while cotton was in active demand at steady prices. In the House of commons the bill for the abolition of the church rates was lost through the casting vote of the speaker. Mrs. Smith O'Brien died at Limerick on the 15th. M.Blondin had made his second provincial ascent at Bradford, Yorkshire, in presence of a large assembly. The American ship Peter Marcy, from New Orleans, passed Spithead and stood out to the southward for Havre, with the flag of the Confederate States flying from the peak. English Views of American affairs. The London Times, in an article speculating upon the probable course of events in America, says: "With whichever side victory may rest, the battle
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