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Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography, Chapter 13: (search)
they made their appearance in the Senate, and it was not long before they demonstrated that they were men of untiring energy and keen perception of the requirements of the nation during the progressive era that followed the close of the Civil War. They were both steadfast Republicans and devoted friends of President Grant. Hon. William Pitt Kellogg was a native of Vermont, but removed to the State of Illinois at an early age. From that State he was appointed Chief Justice to the Territory of Nebraska. At the breaking out of the war he returned to Illinois and raised a regiment, the 7th Illinois Cavalry. After the war he was appointed collector to the port of New Orleans. The bitterness toward him was so intense that his life was in jeopardy many times, but he bravely protected the persecuted citizens and upheld the laws while occupying this position. He was subsequently appointed governor of the State of Louisiana from which position he was elected to the United States Senat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
s filibustering expedition to Sonora, Mexico......July, 1853 Thirty-third Congress, first session, assembles......Dec. 5, 1853 James Gadsden, of South Carolina, minister to Mexico, by treaty purchases her territory south of the Gila River, now known as the Gadsden purchase, and included in Arizona, containing 45,535 square miles, for $10,000,000. Treaty and purchase approved......Dec. 30, 1853 Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, introduces a bill in the Senate, organizing the Territory of Nebraska......Jan. 4, 1854 A. Dixon, of Kentucky, gives notice of an amendment exempting the Territory from the Missouri compromise prohibiting slavery......Jan. 16, 1854 Proclamation of President Pierce against the invasion of Mexico (called out by Walker's expedition into Sonora and Lower California)......Jan. 18, 1854 Senator Douglas, of Illinois, reports a bill creating two Territories, Kansas and Nebraska, of the same territory as the former Nebraska bill, with a section virtual
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Dakota, (search)
be within the United States, takes possession and raises the stars and stripes......Aug. 8, 1823 Yellouwstone, a side-wheel steamboat built by the American Fur Company at Pittsburg, Pa., ascends the Missouri River as far as Fort Union, near the mouth of the Yellowstone......1832 Steamboat Assiniboine, built by the American Fur Company, returning to St. Louis from the Yellowstone, is burned with her cargo of furs, at the mouth of the Heart River......1836 By the organization of Nebraska Territory, May 30, 1854, and the State of Minnesota, May 11, 1858, the rest of the present Dakota is left without legal name or existence......May 11, 1858 Territory of Dakota, comprising the present States of North Dakota and South Dakota, organized by act of......March 2, 1861 Capital located at Yankton......1862 Sioux Indians make two unsuccessful assaults on Fort Abercrombie......September, 1862 First ground in Dakota broken for the Northern Pacific Railroad at Grand Forks.....
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), South Dakota, State of (search)
stone, built by the American Fur Company at Pittsburg, ascends the river as far as Fort Pierre......1831 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by the Indians, ceding to the United States the territory east of the Big Sioux River......1851 Gen. W. S. Harney, with 1,200 men, marches from the Platte River to Fort Pierre, where they encamp for the winter......1855 First settlement established at Sioux Falls by the Western Town-lot Company, of Dubuque, Ia......1857 By organizing Nebraska Territory, May 30, 1854, and Minnesota State, May 11, 1858, the remainder of Dakota is left without legal name or existence......1858 Territory of Dakota organized with an area of 150,932 square miles, by act of Congress......March 2, 1861 Seat of government for Dakota Territory located at Yankton......1862 Sioux Falls destroyed by the Sioux Indians, and settlers flee to Yankton......1862 Fort Dakota built on reservation at Sioux Falls......1865 Line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Chicago Rescuers.--arrest of the Rescuers. (search)
he proceedings in the United States District Court on the receipt from the Grand Jury of the indictments against the parties engaged in the recent slave rescue in that city: Judge Drummond addressed the members of the inquest, stating, in substance, that among the eleven bills now brought into court, he had learned that some were against parties implicated in the late rescue of an alleged slave girl from the officers of the law having her in custody as a fugitive slave from the Territory of Nebraska. When the Grand Jury had been organized a week ago this depredation had not been committed, and consequently they were ignorant that such a case would come before them. However unpleasant it was to Northern prejudices, it was the duty of all good citizens to sustain the laws and the Constitution of the United States, more particularly since certain Southern traitors appear to show an example of trampling upon the laws that govern this Republic. The laws of the land must be sustain
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wire work. (search)
Nominated. --The Hon. W. E. Niblack, M. C. from Indiana, was on Saturday nominated by the President to be Chief Justice of the Territory of Nebraska, vice Augustus Hall, deceased.
The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Nice Situation. (search)
Another insult to Virginia. Another of old Abe's appointments, which perhaps transcends in its insolent contempt and hatred of the South the political promotion of old Giddings, and of the five Tribune editors, is that of one A. Wattles, as U. S. Marshal for the Territory of Nebraska. The only earthly claim, says the Petersburg Express, that this creature had to Executive favor arose from his active participation in John Brown's murderous, incendiary and predatory outrages upon the pro-slavery people in Kansas. A ventilation of the Harper's Ferry record, that forms a conspicuous episode in the proceedings of our last Legislature, leaves no room to doubt that be was deeply implicated in the infamous raid of the old Bandit-Saint upon Virginia. The selection of such a wretch by Lincoln to fill a high national trust is, under the circumstances, about as cool an insult to Virginia as could well have been inflicted upon her.
The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gov. Hicks and the Maryland Legislature--the Governor Indignant. (search)
Among the Arrivals in this city by the Southern route Wednesday evening, were Assistant Surgeon A. M. Fauntleroy and Lieut. George Jackson, 2d Dragoons, late of the U. S. A., direct from Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory. Lieut. Jackson is a brother of Judge Wm. L. Jackson, and Surgeon Fauntleroy is a son of Brigadier General Thomas T. Fauntleroy, of the Virginia Army, new Commanding General of this Division.
The Daily Dispatch: January 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], The National Crisis. (search)
ay next. I learn from a well-informed gentleman, just arrived from Harrisburg, who saw and conversed with the State officers and legislators elect, that one of the first acts of that government will be an appropriation of from one to five millions of dollars, and one hundred thousand men, armed and equipped, to aid the Federal Government in the preservation of the Union. It is believed by Gov. Curtin that nearly all the other Northern States will follow this example. Resignations. First Lieut. George S. James, of the 4th Regiment Artillery. U. S. A., stationed at Fort Randall, in Nebraska Territory, has resigned his commission, and is on his way home. --Lieut. James was a volunteer in the Abbeville Company of the Palmetto Regiment, and served through the whole of the Mexican war. Hamilton Couper, Esq., U. S. District Attorney for this District, last week tendered his resignation to President Buchanan. So says the Savannah News, of Dec. 28.-- Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
or enrollment, or trust in the Government, such property to be applied to restore to Union men in rebel States any losses they may have suffered. In the House, ex-Congressman Bull, of Ohio, was elected Sergeant-at-Arms; Hiram E. Goodenow, of New York, Doorkeeper; T. H. Stockton, Chaplain, and Wm. S. King, of Minnesota, Postmaster. Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, offered a resolution that the name of Stirling Morton be substituted for that of Samuel B. Daly, as the delegate from Nebraska Territory. He said that Mr. Morton had been elected to the position he claimed in October last, and received his commission according to law from the Governor. Six months later, or in April last, the Governor pretended to have discovered an error in the returns, by which Mr. Daly was chosen, and he revoked the commission previously issued to Mr. Morton. This act of Governor Black, he contended, was a gross usurpation of power — a usurpation of the constitutional privileges of this body.
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