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John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History, Chapter 8 . (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1863 , March (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., chapter 48 (search)
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 56 : commerce-destroyers.-their inception, remarkable career, and ending. (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 19 (search)
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 10: The Armies and the Leaders. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller), Chapter 6 : Federal armies, Corps and leaders (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Adams , John Quincy , 1767 - (search)
Aguadilla,
The name of a district and of its principal town and port in the extreme northwestern part of the island of Porto Rico.
The district is bounded on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by the district of Arecibo, and on the south by the district of Mayaguez.
The town is on a bay of the same name, and has a population of about 5,000.
Industries in the town and vicinity consist of the cultivation of sugar-cane, coffee, tobacco, and cocoa-nuts, and the distillation of rum from molasses.
Three establishments in the town prepare coffee for exportation.
The climate is hot but healthful, and yellow fever rarely occurs.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Allen , Charles Herbert , 1848 - (search)
Allen, Charles Herbert, 1848-
Administrator; born in Lowell, Mass., April 15, 1848; was graduated at Amherst College in 1869; and became a lumber merchant at Lowell.
He served in both Houses of the Massachusetts legislature; was a Republican member of Congress in 1885-89; defeated as Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1891; became Assistant Secretary of the Navy in May, 1898, and in April, 1900, was appointed the first American governor of Porto Rico.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)